Finds: Andrés Burgos
After taking a good look at the shelf where he keeps his most cherished books, albums and movies, this is what Colombian writer Andrés Burgos decided to share with us.
No
It’s no news to anyone mildly interested in film that in the last decade there have been lots of Chilean movies with original proposals and interesting authors, especially when they happen to be independent projects. But something unusual happened in 2012: the successful transition of a director, actually a team, from small, borderline cult films, to showings of evidently massive ambitions without it all taking a toll. No, the latest movie by the Larraín brothers, Pablo directing and Juan de Dios producing, tackles the eternal subject of Chilean cinema –the Pinochet dictatorship–, but does so in a refreshing manner, almost didactic in its lightness, but keeping the political implications, the depth and the formal risks. With the indispensable complicity of Gael García, who plays an advertising agent in charge of fighting the referendum which will decide whether the dictator stays in power, the team of No has achieved the balance so yearned for by those who dream of upholding their prestige and keeping movie theaters full. Oscar nominated for best foreign film from Chile, a mix between drama and humor, this movie embodies the perfect formula to transcend its borders and make a lasting impression on viewers from all over, and to fill with envy the man who has become the guru of the political thriller –George Clooney–, who would find in García’s interpretation a Latin American example up there with the roles his age no longer allows him to play.
Finds:
[Esteban Mayorga: Neighbors]
[Juan Álvarez: Pueblo alimaña]
[Diego Erlan: Últimos días de Sexton y Blake]
[Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: Maten al león]
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
No
It’s no news to anyone mildly interested in film that in the last decade there have been lots of Chilean movies with original proposals and interesting authors, especially when they happen to be independent projects. But something unusual happened in 2012: the successful transition of a director, actually a team, from small, borderline cult films, to showings of evidently massive ambitions without it all taking a toll. No, the latest movie by the Larraín brothers, Pablo directing and Juan de Dios producing, tackles the eternal subject of Chilean cinema –the Pinochet dictatorship–, but does so in a refreshing manner, almost didactic in its lightness, but keeping the political implications, the depth and the formal risks. With the indispensable complicity of Gael García, who plays an advertising agent in charge of fighting the referendum which will decide whether the dictator stays in power, the team of No has achieved the balance so yearned for by those who dream of upholding their prestige and keeping movie theaters full. Oscar nominated for best foreign film from Chile, a mix between drama and humor, this movie embodies the perfect formula to transcend its borders and make a lasting impression on viewers from all over, and to fill with envy the man who has become the guru of the political thriller –George Clooney–, who would find in García’s interpretation a Latin American example up there with the roles his age no longer allows him to play.
Finds:
[Esteban Mayorga: Neighbors]
[Juan Álvarez: Pueblo alimaña]
[Diego Erlan: Últimos días de Sexton y Blake]
[Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: Maten al león]
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
