aleskander
Joined Aug 2016
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SIRAT
An excellent film which metaphorizes our deepest feelings, a road movie of a man with his son in search of the man's daughter and the son's sister.
A very impressive cinematography: the profound landscape, as a character, probably the most important character of the film. One feels the Nature, as a superior intelligence. We are all here with the same destiny.
There are at least 3 turning points, three important plot points, one of them in the middle of the film. The middle of the second act.
We will explode watching a picture which reminds us of "Zabriskie Point" by Michelangelo Antonioni or maybe "Fata Morgana" by Werner Herzog.
We all live in the same train.
Nice movie!
An excellent film which metaphorizes our deepest feelings, a road movie of a man with his son in search of the man's daughter and the son's sister.
A very impressive cinematography: the profound landscape, as a character, probably the most important character of the film. One feels the Nature, as a superior intelligence. We are all here with the same destiny.
There are at least 3 turning points, three important plot points, one of them in the middle of the film. The middle of the second act.
We will explode watching a picture which reminds us of "Zabriskie Point" by Michelangelo Antonioni or maybe "Fata Morgana" by Werner Herzog.
We all live in the same train.
Nice movie!
Among the films by Medem, some of them stand out, crearly, La ardilla roja (The red squirrel), Tierra and Caótica Ana, where a Brian De a Palma actor, appeared, in a secondary role, his name Gerrit Graham.
The film has the direction of a craftsman, using several and very well edited sequence-shots, thus the picture deserves being watched.
The problem is the actors and actresses direction. Could be better, they are sometimes like abandoned.
The make up is not right or maybe Medem should have used a different actor and a different actress for the final scenes, when they are very old, the film loses credibility, should be more realistic and precise.
The music is too sweet. And the film is somewhat naive, sometimes cheesy.
It tries to tell a kind of history of the recent Spain, with deep wounds coming from the Spanish Civil War and the thirties.
The use of the color in the film is fantastic, sepia, black & white.
The feminism in the film is superficial, with some scenes showing the girl escaping and driving a car in the sixties with her mini skirt, hair in the wind.
But, a bunch of sequence-shots are worth watching.
The film has the direction of a craftsman, using several and very well edited sequence-shots, thus the picture deserves being watched.
The problem is the actors and actresses direction. Could be better, they are sometimes like abandoned.
The make up is not right or maybe Medem should have used a different actor and a different actress for the final scenes, when they are very old, the film loses credibility, should be more realistic and precise.
The music is too sweet. And the film is somewhat naive, sometimes cheesy.
It tries to tell a kind of history of the recent Spain, with deep wounds coming from the Spanish Civil War and the thirties.
The use of the color in the film is fantastic, sepia, black & white.
The feminism in the film is superficial, with some scenes showing the girl escaping and driving a car in the sixties with her mini skirt, hair in the wind.
But, a bunch of sequence-shots are worth watching.
This rough story told in step by step approaches through the selected camera shots shows a high class family with apparently few problems.
A mother and two nice girls (one living in France), a husband doctor, but a little bit of sadness and hidden bitterness and resentment.
An apparently happy family with an alcoholic mother suffering and a daughter losing her brilliant dance career for helping her mother.
Great performance of Emma Suárez and a good direction, cinematography and artistic direction.
Nice and rough at the same time.
Natalia De Molina's performance improves while watching the film, getting better and better.
Good direction approach and brilliant camera shots by Aitor Echevarría...
A mother and two nice girls (one living in France), a husband doctor, but a little bit of sadness and hidden bitterness and resentment.
An apparently happy family with an alcoholic mother suffering and a daughter losing her brilliant dance career for helping her mother.
Great performance of Emma Suárez and a good direction, cinematography and artistic direction.
Nice and rough at the same time.
Natalia De Molina's performance improves while watching the film, getting better and better.
Good direction approach and brilliant camera shots by Aitor Echevarría...