Se arrienda

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.

I wasn't sure before i bought the tickets for seeing "Se arrienda" about making a good choice. I have never trusted in Chilean movies, and i don't like Alberto Fuguet that much. But i took the chance and i sat there for almost two hours and i finally thought it was a good choice. I recognized inside the film a lot of elements taken from movies such as "Lost in translation" -perhaps the environment, music, nostalgic- and some dialogs taken from Tarantino's ideas. For example, the fact of having a long discussion about Julio Iglesias reminded me a lot about the same talking about Madonna and "Like a virgin" in "Reservoir dogs". I guess the 80s were left behind and the main point went straight to fighting against system. "Gastón" is a dreamer and living in New York for so many years and then coming back to Santiago was a big change, coming back even was a mistake. Then he realized that the beautiful world he had as a young man, it was all gone and his friends became pathetic robots, money machines in a fake successful system down the brand new and modern Chile. Santiago seems to be so big and splendid, although is a lonely city, empty by soul and i think Gastón never lost his idea of being forever innocent, musician...dreamer. Congratulation Alberto!! you did a great job trying to portrait the frustration that most of us have. Se arrienda will become one of the representation of the new Chilean cinema, for all of us who even thought we love our shy Santiago and our history, we need to go and see other places following our idea of a better world. Also, this is a warning for those who once outside have the purpose of coming back. We can do it better, we can love better from outside...we don't wanna turn into new Gastón...the past is the past and once you go you wont never get it back... although...why do we have to imagine what's the final resolution between Gastón and the girl!! ... and Luciano Cruz Coke has a place in movie industry, pay attention at him...he throws an incredible interpretation, the rest...MM work harder Good film for thinking about what you really want to be..., Santiago is a long road, it's almost a photography. This movie encourages to keep on going on following dreams of writing a book or having a tree. Life is within music and movies, what we are able to take from them, travelling worldwide to find yourself in your own place.

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.

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.

Dude... This movie identify most of the creative minds in actual Chile, is the image of what new Chile "lolosaurio" is made,the actual creative mind, the new mind involve, is what is really involve, here is crappy edition work but the story... marks a difference, the generational scene..., every professional,every passion 5 years university geek who believes in somethings and followed to the end, but surrender to the merchandise power of money and recognition should see this movie, we are week and we have our needs, at the end you surrender to maturity of the being! to being a mature person who have needs... a new horizon a new world in front our nose and we have to recognize it. this is an inspirational movie... this is a take out of the hole movie!