Change Your Image
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Reviews
La otra conquista (1998)
A Conquest Without Conquerors
A film that gives a daring perspective to all what we Mexicans have been told about our race and cultures. A work that looks made on canvas and uses the creativity of a classical magic realism often used in Latin America to depict a reality that many of us ignored and have been taking for granted as heritage. Topiltzin an Aztec scribe, gives us a new lesson for history where he lets the settlers (Spaniards) convert his body but never his spirit. A dramatic film that really questions who conquered who and how events did happen in the old Tenochtitlan, and who indeed was more barbarian, the Aztecs who offered their souls to their gods, or the Spaniards vanishing cultures that were just not willing to convert their faith.
Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)
How sick you are of conventionalism
"I'm sick of Symmetry" a character says in this film, and here we have one of the last works of Luis Bunuel's surrealistic fantasies that brings a story after another with a never ending that mocks the ignorance in which societies live in; It's just amazing how Bunuel exposures the conventionalism to which we are so accustomed and makes of any place a more decadent and irrational angle of the world. Comedy is just the perfect condiment that guides you and distracts you through a series of events that never have sense for the first time. Bunuel's humor is always taken to the profane as many judge, but indeed is just another evidence of how reality often times makes us uncomfortable even in our own privacy. A must see film without a doubt, it mirrors your emotions, it drives you mad, drives you sad, and challenges your morality.
Qian li zou dan qi (2005)
A thousand emotions
Too much emotions and pain in a single person, a story that gives a lesson of life. Takata is extremely herd by his wife's death that he plunges into loneliness and no-contact with his son Kenichi who is dying of cancer at a hospital, refusing to see his father. A journey that helps Takata rediscover the value of family through the grace of Yang Yang, a kid whose father is imprisoned for an ironic act of defense. The movie is all about self analysis and forgiveness; Takata stops been emotionless after he was told about Kenichi's death, but specially after having experienced the cultural values of a foreign country. The narrative is the only fact I felt a bit ambiguous; however, the real language that must be spoken in this film is the language of feelings and expressions.
Viskningar och rop (1972)
émotions des femmes
A film that attracts the viewer with a very complex and skillful camera work, and editing; I have never seen such an artistic film based in colors and emotions like this. An almost feminist work that centers its drama in the exploration of the human condition, the suffering and loneliness through the lives of Maria, Karin, their ill sister Agnes, and the maid Ana who takes care of Agnes. The film is quite open to gender issues and sexuality and it gives a different perspective of the world of women, who later on will look down on men such as the case of Karin whose more bizarre act of cutting her own genitals makes her husband be repulsed and driven away from her, or Maria, whose husband kills himself as soon as he knows about Maria's infidelity. (Men fail to understand the women emotions). A powerful film that controls your brain through close-ups, dreams and realism.
Dom za vesanje (1988)
Time of the Gypsies
Without a doubt, Time of the Gypsies is a film full of curiosity and visual hypnosis, the story focuses on Perhan, a young gypsy fellow whose innocence gets lost in his search for a better life; he introduces us to the darkest and most contrasting angles of the gypsy culture. Perhan lives with his hard working, and lovely grandmother Khaditza, his crazy and ambitious uncle, and Danira, his sweet and charismatic sister, whose disability will throw her along with Perhan to the hands of a money hungry criminal whose initial plan was on taking them to a hospital and pay for Danira's medical treatment as a gesture of gratitude to Khaditza who saved the life of Ahmed's son. The film narrative, and camera work are charged with poetic scenes and magical realism by Perhan's telekinetic powers that will ultimately create a supernatural atmosphere and reflect the mysticism of his culture. Beyond tragedy, Kusturica the author of this film, immerses us in a story of comedy and fantasy that celebrates love, family and human decency.
Idi i smotri (1985)
Come & See
Emir Klimov depicts through the most raw events, the reality that the Belarus, USSR's population suffered at the hands of the Nazi movement in 1943, and how humanity harms to itself to a maximum level. Florya is a teenager whose excitement and nationalism moves him to defend what is "his'" along with the soviet partisans, he later realizes that there is nothing more bizarre in life than losing your family, seeing someone else's life fading away into the arms of war. After he has no one, Florya finds a truly purpose to join the military and fight with a cause. With such an striking control of the stead cam, Klimov makes us experience the war in a closer level to reality, his manipulation of sound, time and space makes us see beyond what the characters feel, and even if there isn't violence on the scene, a gesture, a movement, or a smile takes your breath away.