Se arrienda

Fuguet is not a good writer. His stories are not good. He has no style, though i cannot get rid of each of the characters that appear in his stories. Same thing with "Se Arrienda". Braun and Saavedra perform as awful as one can expect of them. Cruz-Coke is not that bad (he was good at "dos hermanos". He was outstanding at "largo viaje del día hacia la noche", he was so bad at "Señorita Julia" -which was directed by Braun-, and please let us forget, "Enigma"). Evidently, Francisca Lewin and Ignacia Allamand are the one making the best effort here. The story is simple. Those of you who know by heart "una Vida modelo" will recognize some of the characters. But even if you feel something is missing here, that is not well solved or settled, the film still works, as Fuguet's books. The music is outstanding! And there are some details that one can forgive because of the needed marketing, as Villouta's (each day in a more Viñuela way) appearing talking about nothing. Fuguet is great. Don't know why really, but his stories and "se arrienda" worth the while, definitely.

This movie is total rubbish!!! Honestly. This is Fuget's first time as director, and I really hope the last one. His script here is much worse than his novels: frivolous, inexpressive, irrelevant. His direction is superficial, plenty of unconnected scenes with no sense of rhythm at all. Minutes and minutes of pointless, affected (and definitively too long) chats are filmed with a poor sense of cinematography. The product of this childish Tarantino's wannabe gives you time even to go to the toilet without missing anything important. Its framing is as bad as its photography. The soundtrack is predictable, plenty of hyper-known 1980s songs; absolutely no contribution to popular music culture. Light direction is deficient: in some night scenes you simply can't recognise faces or tell who's talking; in others, light is so bright that actresses look like corpses and actors like Dracula. The whole thing is pathetic. I gave two stars just to the few good actors performing here (Cruz-Coke, Lewin, Saavedra). Half additional star could go for Ignacia Allamand's nice-nice bottom.

I'm 20 years old, and this movie, was pretty close to the reality that i'm living right now... I have a lot of dreams and pretensions.. but I have to choose what thing is the better, this choice is not always easy and may be I'm sold to the system....

The theme of this movie is that, the thing that happen every day when you have 20-25 and all you want is freedom for the realization of yours dreams... and may be there is a soul close to you that feel the same, and together you can grow up and be the thing you want (alternative or sold to system). The soundtrack is great thinking that the main character is a musician, and the mini-movie "killer's ant" was simple but interesting, ant that kill people without love, do you thing what would happen if this come true???

I don't know what can be thought about this film in the rest of the world, even in the rest of Chile. Because it talks about something in particular, and I do not really know how universal it is. I cannot look at it objectively. I am part of it. I know it. Never had a movie touched me so close, and I mean in the geographical but also in the heart. Because it is like my best friends talking about us - it is mad. And it is also marvelous. I know the movie is at least good. I don't know if amazing for the rest... for me it is. It is marvelous. Brilliant. Honest. So honest in fact, it made me cry. I swear the screen became a mirror. And this was catharsis in a way that I had never really experienced this close. Chilean cinema has been plagued forever with anecdotes. Anecdotes that do not have much to say apart from the action and only in a residual way. This is a cinema that takes it's time and talks about himself. Alberto Fuguet, the director, opens his chest and let's us into this world, this world that is my own so in his chest I am myself. It is a beautiful film, very well acted, intelligently shot and with the best dialogue I've heard in some time. And as his friend ask Gastón in a point - if his music is any good... Gastón can only say: "I blush with it - I think it's good".

Then again, who'd want to see this film with such a subjective intent into it - but I do know this: even if it may talk so particularly about things, in doing so it becomes general and that happens here. This movie will talk through particularity to everyone that enlists in it's search and exposition - the communication is culturally worldwide and as such I expect it to go a long way in the hearts of those who experience it, as it did in me.

Cheers.

It's a pity that this movie has came back to Chile empty handed from the ELCINE FESTIVAL here in Peru. But if Alberto Fuguet happens to read this comment I would like him to know that his movie has a desperate fan in this overcrowded city. My favorite movies before "Se Arrienda" were: The Deer Hunter, Barry Lyndon and Adaptation. Se Arrienda has taken my breath away. In my opinion this movie is beautiful. Fuguet must be proud to have made this. "La Elisa" is a gorgeous character. And "Gastón Fernandez" is just so beautifully simple an complicated at the same time... He is beautiful, perfect. Congratulagions Fuguet. I would love to write this in Spanish, though.