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Pro urodov i lyudey (1998)
Not a drama
If you think "A drama from Russia", you'll be wrong. This is a very strange satyre of old Russian literacy and melodrama, told with a wit humour and great originality. Just see: there is a blind woman who falls in love at first sight ("Victor Ivanovich!"), a villain who claims for his nurse, a couple of siamese twins (and one of them couches with the girlfriend of the other...and the other don't have a clue!) and much, much more. Everything is filmed as a mute drama, but in fact it's a very intelligent parody. Just try it. It's an excellent film and contains a lot of comments about politics, cinema, literacy and a very good comic approach at the Dostoïevskian tradition in writing. The use of intertitles and black and white photo it's perfect. And in the second half, there is a lot of good laughs.
El hijo de la novia (2001)
Against patriotic chauvinism
The Campanella's film Son of the Bride is far away from the best achievements in filmmaking. To say it's a film inscript into the "Hollywood Tradition" and quote such names as King Vidor, Vincente Minelli and even -the greatest lie- Frank Capra it's only a proof of the patriotic chauvinism of some so-called "film critics" in our country. The manipulation of the script, the dmagogic exculpation of a little bussiness man who blames in some way "the system" for his own misery and the hope for a "happy end" out of the screen ere evidences of the type of demagogic way of filming on the "greatest films" (only about the money they costs) in our country. Son of the Bride is far away too from the bravest films made in Argentina, thos who goes with enormous effort to the most important film festivals in the world and catch the moviegoers and critic's attention: Pizza, Birra, Faso; Mundo Grúa, Nueve Reinas, La ciénaga, La Libertad, Bolivia and many others, made with authentic love for the cinema and real respect for the real world.
El hijo de la novia (2001)
Against patriotic chauvinism
The Campanella's film Son of the Bride is far away from the best achievements in filmmaking. To say it's a film inscript into the "Hollywood Tradition" and quote such names as King Vidor, Vincente Minelli and even -the greatest lie- Frank Capra it's only a proof of the patriotic chauvinism of some so-called "film critics" in our country. The manipulation of the script, the dmagogic exculpation of a little bussiness man who blames in some way "the system" for his own misery and the hope for a "happy end" out of the screen ere evidences of the type of demagogic way of filming on the "greatest films" (only about the money they costs) in our country. Son of the Bride is far away too from the bravest films made in Argentina, thos who goes with enormous effort to the most important film festivals in the world and catch the moviegoers and critic's attention: Pizza, Birra, Faso; Mundo Grúa, Nueve Reinas, La ciénaga, La Libertad, Bolivia and many others, made with authentic love for the cinema and real respect for the real world.