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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 6, 2024 19:11:54 GMT
He should have known that the original language was Spanish. He reviews films!
I just saw a post of someone saying that El laberinto del fauno was their favourite Spanish film. In this case, though, there is a possible explanation. I think part of the production is Spanish and the actors were (at least mostly) Spanish.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 6, 2024 21:40:00 GMT
It’s funny because El Laberinto del Fauno competed for Mexico in the Oscars, even when the story and actors were mostly if not all Spanish and La Sociedad de la Nieve competes for Spain even when it’s about Uruguayans (I guess there are also some Chileans at the end! I mean if the actors were really Chileans!). Of course, in both cases the directos are from the country their films are competing from but the decisive factors aren’t them (Japan selected a film directed by a German, for example) but the production itself. It was decided, by the producers, that El Laberinto del Fauno was a Mexican film and that La Sociedad de la Nieve is an Spanish film! It’s also funny when countries compete for some “foreign” language like the UK this year with The Zone of Interest, in which German actors in Germany talk in German! A few years ago, Mexico also competed with a film in a German dialect. It was about Mexican Mennonites, tho., so it was still a very local film, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Light
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Post by roverpup on Jan 13, 2024 16:17:02 GMT
We watched this film last night (during a snow storm!) and was blown away by it!
Amazing movie!! THE best movie we've seen this year by far.
What storytelling. Personal yet highly detailed. And the plane crash scene was sooooo exciting!
We saw the subtitled version and it took nothing away from the film's impact.
It was just so great to see a strong narrative so expertly executed. Kudos to all involved - production, direction, acting, set design... everything about this film was excellent!
HIGHLY recommend!!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 17, 2024 14:40:42 GMT
Review by Mike Flanagan on Letterboxd Some trivia: - The scenes at Numa's home were filmed in the actual house where he lived in Uruguay. The person he greets in the street is Numa's actual nephew. - The survivors Parrado, Canessa, Fernández, Sabella and Inciarte made cameos; and Carlos Paez plays his father. - It was filmed chronologically so the actors could lose more than 20kg. Enzo Vogrincic (Numa) weighed 49kg at the end. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C17dggoLumv
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Post by roverpup on Jan 17, 2024 17:43:17 GMT
This film, without a doubt, is one that has stuck with me since I saw it in a way that no other film this year has. It had an impact on me. On the surface it is just an adventure story, but it quickly reveals it is about so much more.
A study in human relations (in normal circumstance and under great stress), a look at co-operation and conflict, a deep dive into grief and uncontainable joy... this masterpiece of cinema seems to emcompass it all!
It's a remarkable piece of filmmaking!
It deserves all the accolades given and more. Why hasn't it got the recognition and nominations that Parasite got? It's every bit as worthy to be shortlisted (and nominated) for Best Picture and Best Director as that one was.
Is it because it suffers from "rich kids stories don’t count" syndrome? That's the same horrid criticism that was leveled at Patrick Melrose. The only struggle worth immortalizing as "noble" is one steeped in class warfare? I read a critique of this movie that said as much (it was from an Uruguayan writer and university professor in the US).
That's very frustrating and totally unfair!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 17, 2024 20:16:48 GMT
Is it because it suffers from "rich kids stories don’t count" syndrome? That's the same horrid criticism that was leveled at Patrick Melrose. The only struggle worth immortalizing as "noble" is one steeped in class warfare? I read a critique of this movie that said as much ( it was from an Uruguayan writer and university professor in the US). Do you have a link?
Today I read something worse. Some Spanish film critic said that it has no diversity, not one of them was gay! They were all men and there were all straight! What was he expecting? A gay romance in the middle of the snow?
There were no black people! Here like 90% of the population is white. 50 years ago there were probably more white people and, except if a son of a diplomat went to their school, there was no way to find a black student there where the elite went.
Then an Argentine critic said there were no women! It was mostly a rugby team and their friends! The few women that were on the plane died in the crash or some days after.
I didn't watch it yet. Here is still in cinemas. I have to go see it before they take it down.
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Post by roverpup on Jan 17, 2024 20:38:45 GMT
www.pagina12.com.ar/702826-la-tragedia-netflix-de-los-andesI of course only read the Google translation of the article. Those inane complaints against the movie are so intellectually lazy. No thought process goes into such "critiques". It's like they just slot in the "enlightened" rubber stamped whinging - story HAS to have gay, feminist, POC aspects or it isn't acceptable. Never mind that the ACTUAL story context doesn't have these aspects. That doesn't matter. Every story HAS to include these woke perspectives. Ridiculous! Yes, representation has value but so has TRUTH. This story was true to the events as best as it could be. That's important for the kind of movie this was (it wasn't a fantasy, it was a retelling of an actual event).
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 18, 2024 1:06:06 GMT
I saw a tweet criticizing it because there were too many women in it! The guy thought that “woke” Netflix fabricated them just because “inclusivity” because why would a rugby team would travel with females? lol
Ideologues is the worst that could happen to art and art criticism. And by the way, on the other side of the spectrum, Mike Flanagan is an example of that! He is brilliant but very often he undermines his own stuff with very forced “inclusive” stuff. I think that after the very good Hill House, he totally destroyed his The Turn of the Screw adaptation when he decided to put a cozy sweet lesbian romance between two extremely cute girls. One of the best and most disturbing aspects of the novella is that you just don’t know if the kinda slightly old spinster is really seeing ghosts or just imagining that a pair of innocent siblings are possesed by lovers that had a very torrid forbidden relationship in life.
Probably my favorite thing by him was Midnight Mass but it had this silly scene in which the Muslim sheriff randomly gets preachy about the discrimination he suffered after 11/09. This while someone was trying to inform him about the vampire invasion in the island!
Then his new acclaimed adaptation of Poe was so awful and bizarre! There was a lot of inclusivity with a single very rich family with every race and sexual identity possible but they were all so awful and they died in such a humiliating way that you could easily mistake the message for it’s not good to have a “diverse” big family! lol Actually, the lead old straight man was probably the most decent nice character in the series even when he was presented as the big anti-hero! His big error seems to be that he decided to have and recognize all his very diverse kids!
There is nothing bad with diversity and inclusion but it shouldn’t feel forced! And, just because something includes blacks, Latinos, queers or… women! doesn’t mean it’s because they have an agenda. And of course, filmmakers shouldn’t feel obligated to include them specifically when they are adapting such a real life story like the Andes miracle!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 19, 2024 15:54:11 GMT
I liked this video.
Bayona explains how they gathered all the families of the survivors and the families of those who died for a screening and how it was a healing experience for all. I think this was another screening with the families. Some of the family members of Numa Turcatti (the lead) are thanking him for his portrayal. Also, they (Bayona and production) were very respectful with the families. They asked permission to use Numa as the lead character to represent the dead.
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 24, 2024 13:55:35 GMT
I don't know if this release is ww.
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