Regress & Repress: Palavecino’s Woman on the Verge of Sustaining Interest
A young girl crying alone in a room opens Argentinean director Santiago Palavecino’s latest feature, Algunas Chicas (Some Girls), which turns out to be a recurring motif in a film exploring distressed female psyches and the ebb and flow toward nervous breakdowns. At first exuding the promising glow of a psychological thriller with its foreboding flawed female protagonist, the film evolves into a case study of an unbalanced mind as out of control actions and surprising details surface in the less charismatic second half of the film. Consistently dark and exceptionally photographed, Palavecino’s themes and locale may recall Lucretia Martel but isn’t quite in the same league as interest and narrative cohesion aren’t sustained.
Celina (Cecilia Rainero) is a successful surgeon that mysteriously decides to visit old college buddy Delfina (Augustina Liendo) at her rural home.
A young girl crying alone in a room opens Argentinean director Santiago Palavecino’s latest feature, Algunas Chicas (Some Girls), which turns out to be a recurring motif in a film exploring distressed female psyches and the ebb and flow toward nervous breakdowns. At first exuding the promising glow of a psychological thriller with its foreboding flawed female protagonist, the film evolves into a case study of an unbalanced mind as out of control actions and surprising details surface in the less charismatic second half of the film. Consistently dark and exceptionally photographed, Palavecino’s themes and locale may recall Lucretia Martel but isn’t quite in the same league as interest and narrative cohesion aren’t sustained.
Celina (Cecilia Rainero) is a successful surgeon that mysteriously decides to visit old college buddy Delfina (Augustina Liendo) at her rural home.
- 05/09/2013
- di Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
- Among the titles that Ioncinema.com will be covering at Tiff and therefore look forward to getting familiarized a little beforehand is Hector Babenco's The Past (O Pasado). A couple of years after Carandiru, I'm glad to see the Brazilian filmmaker (born in Argentina) back in form after a serious cancer-related illness that took him off the map for a couple of years. Based on a novel by the Argentine writer Alan Pauls, The Past is about a couple who decide to separate after 12 years; while the man (played by Gael García Bernal) tries to leave his past behind, his former partner is unable to let go. Click on the poster image below to access the trailer. ...
- 30/08/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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