Alfredo Castro and Martin Lopez Lacci as El Corto and Cabra. Juan Pablo Félix: 'I was clear from the beginning that I wanted to tell the tale using all the genres and all the tools that cinema gives us' Photo: Courtesy of Poff
First-time Argentine director Juan Pablo Félix shows no fear in his feature Karnawal, dancing between coming-of-age, family drama and thriller with sure footwork. Teenager Cabra loves nothing more than dancing the Malambo – an escape from his fractured home life, with his father (Alberto Castro) incarcerated years ago and a new, disciplinarian wannabe stepfather (Diego Kremonisi) wooing his mother (Mónica Lairana). When his father, “El Corto” appears back on the scene, the dynamic of the household shifts, while El Corto also brings threat with him in the shape of habits from the past – threat that, in a particular sting for Cabra, could jeopardise his participation in an upcoming dance competition.
First-time Argentine director Juan Pablo Félix shows no fear in his feature Karnawal, dancing between coming-of-age, family drama and thriller with sure footwork. Teenager Cabra loves nothing more than dancing the Malambo – an escape from his fractured home life, with his father (Alberto Castro) incarcerated years ago and a new, disciplinarian wannabe stepfather (Diego Kremonisi) wooing his mother (Mónica Lairana). When his father, “El Corto” appears back on the scene, the dynamic of the household shifts, while El Corto also brings threat with him in the shape of habits from the past – threat that, in a particular sting for Cabra, could jeopardise his participation in an upcoming dance competition.
- 12/24/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
First-time feature director Juan Pablo Félix takes the same energetic, forthright approach to his filmmaking that his protagonist does to his beloved malambo dance - a complex and rhythmic traditional dance from Argentina - with the director's fancy footwork moving seamlessly from indie drama and coming-of-age tale to tense thriller and back again.
Félix - whose film is a strong contender in Tallinn's First Feature competition - begins with social realism, as we meet baby-faced teenager Cabra in his home in the north of Argentina, close to the Bolivian border. A telephone is ringing insistently, a device that Félix will return to through the film as a source of anxiety. More pressing perhaps are the tensions within the home Cabra shares his mum (Mónica Lairana), as her boyfriend (Diego Kremonisi) tries to persuade them to move...
Félix - whose film is a strong contender in Tallinn's First Feature competition - begins with social realism, as we meet baby-faced teenager Cabra in his home in the north of Argentina, close to the Bolivian border. A telephone is ringing insistently, a device that Félix will return to through the film as a source of anxiety. More pressing perhaps are the tensions within the home Cabra shares his mum (Mónica Lairana), as her boyfriend (Diego Kremonisi) tries to persuade them to move...
- 11/21/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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