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Melancholia (2011)
Perfectly cracked
Undoubtely, this has been one of the most expert and highest expressions of a darkened sidelong and forgotten problem I have seen in the recent time. Simply, the direction and work are sumptuous and abstract fair enough. It commemorates a brutally and historically withdrown and pointed theme; a theme that indirectaly affects us all and makes a good part of contemporary society. Human mind's fragility and our continous scrutiny of enthusiasm could not be better portrayed than how does it Lars Von Trier.
Photography is imposing and gripper. Music, rousing and astonishing. The record is well explained and developed with special attention and preception, yet no getting into a weariness point. It is, rather, stimulating and pungeant without inflections. Cracked would be the perfect term, but only and exclusively by the protagonist mind.
El diablo es magnífico (2016)
Accurately sad
It is properly hearthwarming to see how films like this delve in Chilean's national
cinema and more and more chileans lifes, undoubtly a huge advance over the last years for respect and integriry on historically segregated, discriminated and forgotten minorities. It is in this contexts where Manu's story moves us into new, and current, positions that shares a common reality: LGBTQ+ discrimination. And not referring to the legal discrepancies that exist in Chile, more centred on the personal's difficulties of development and social positioning in an already marked by the forgetness of this faction, our people, even so in an first world and developed country in this matter. It forces us to think in the treat we make.
Interesting is, even more, the artistic proposal that is taken letting us in first person to suffer the protagonist needs. We are always by her side, we live with her too. Her mood changes affects us inevitably like water going down the gutter. We may try to ignore this situation, but it is precisely this which gives the film its most negative aspect. Force us, in some way, to suffer how she does glimpes the feelings we do not want to remember, and that is why its a real, but raw movie.
Recomended more to what as a documentary and not so much as a movie of pure recreatrive entretainment.
Gloria (2013)
A story for all of us
Gloria's story express a truth that women had o are living. The empowerment and liberty of the protagonist during its development is truly charming. It is a constant reminder of the liberty and determination we must.exercise for ourselves. In a world that is getting busier and busier, and where it is.incresingly.easier to be blackened, this movie shines with its.moving and optimist story which oblige us to explore new realities and, specially, attribute us the individuallity that makes us particular as people.
Futhermore, an admirable.firmness and conviction for self love.adds to the past theme. It is true that in times like this we forget to believe in ourselves first. Thus this film recue some of fundamental concepts in moder day actuality . And, though we might think in moments that the protagonist is creazy, it is almost imposible not to connect with her, remarking a outstanding and.hearthbreking perfomance of Paulina García.
It is, indeed, a movie for everybody; a movie in which, after a lot of time, makes us come back to us, ask and answer what it is the truly important: our happiness. A sensible and passionate cronic for the inadapted everywhere that has something to show and are unable to break through. Anyways, a movie to happy yourself.
The Lighthouse (2019)
Am I the only one frustrated by the academy about this film?
Recently I've been on the mood of the awards season, in which I watch every film that has been, or surely will be, awarded. I knew about this film due to the connection to The Witch, and when it appear on cinemas I went rapidly to watch it too. What unsettles me is that this movie is one of the best movies of the year and has not the proper recognition. Willem Defoe's and Robert Pattinson's acting is by far two of the best I've ever seen. The frustration is shown almost in a perfect way in which the anger and the violence is over the tricks of the generic movie of crazy people. I'd just love it.
Furthermore, the cinematography is so beautiful that I'd compare it to Wes Anderson's. I felt like I was in the Lighthouse too, and that feeling nowadays is unique in Hollywood's cinema.
Congratulations to the Eggers excellent work, but I feel like it's been underrated. The academy and the critics should pay attention to this movie, is just exceptional.
Tarde Para Morir Joven (2018)
Incredible good, Great story
When I first listened about this film I could contain my anxiety. The idea of watching a Chilean woman director job, about the problems that some young people could have at my age, but in a different time really got my anxious. I went to the cinema within all the chaos of Marvel´s 'EndGame', but inside the room the closeness was unique. From the first scene I knew that i would love this film, and while it was progressing I really felt connected to the plot and characters. Something that could made me feel that way is that the protagonist is about my age, and that the time it was set generates a lot of tumult here in Chile. Whit this film I could watch a different point of view of the Chilean history, a closer one. I also loved the recording style, one that I have only seen in north american and french films; in that sense I felt proud about the Chilean advance in cinematography.
Changing the idea, I did not like the scenes of Magdalena Tótoro. Taking out the fact that she is still a little girl, I felt that she´s parts did not contribute at all in the advance of the plot. Almost like an expansion, this parts were too callow for the level of Dominga Sotomayor as a director. I think that the movie could have been much better without this scenes.
For the rest the film is really great, I loved everything else of it, specially the act of Demián Hernández. Hope for them two, Dominga Sotomayor and Demián Hernández, to make more and better films, winning more prizes and having a excellent career. 8/10
Colonia (2015)
Really good pinture, but there is more story to tell
Colonia Dignidad is not a place that Chilean people talks about: I'm Chilean and I know that. Here, the opinions are divided: some people loves Pinochet's government and others hate it, but everybody can see the truth of Colonia Dignidad, a disgusting truth.
But, why did I not put the picture more stars? The answer is simple: this movie talks about a place were the most awful things happened while the picture gets a political sense putting more protagonism to the government of the time and its relationship with Germany. The thing I did not like in this trama is that it does not have context with the Chilean problems and the people's necesities.
As I said, the opinions of this political reality are divided, but something wrong is to show Pinochet's government as something bad, without talking of the previous governments. In Salvador Allendes's government, people died in streets and there was hunger and trouble anywhere, and they show the protagonist as a supporter of this government without showing the bad things of it. As well, they only show the bad thing of Pinochet's, but the truth is totally contrary.
To be concluding, this is a great picture, but this only tells one side of the history...