Finds: Ricardo Silva Romero
After looking through his favorite shows and movies, this is what Ricardo Silva Romero had to say about the HBO series Girls.
You watch the show Girls because it’s good, because Judd Apatow produces it, because you want to learn what’s happening behind the scenes in the life of today’s women: Why do they look so cynical so early in life? Why do they see themselves as characters without any solution? And so on… It all hangs together because of scriptwriter, director, and actor Lena Dunham’s incredible work. That’s a fact. But at the end of each episode, in spite of a curious humour and a sensibility that saves it from cynicism, there is an aftertaste of unease, which is difficult to shake off. Dunham who, at 26, has already directed a feature film and several shorts, finds herself directing this surreal HBO series (surreal because it offers a true glimpse behind the curtain: these are the experiences of twentysomethings in big cities), and her individual touch makes you think that very shortly she will be a star. Girls moves slowly. Dunham’s cameras travel but are not invasive. Her characters, kids who have begun to feel old, are seen in fancy restaurants, playing at being adults. They go through life seeking a prolonged adolescence. The plot turns on Hannah Horvath, a well-to-do New Yorker, who, in her twenties, finally finds herself forced to face her responsibilities as an adult (work, bills, the future, love), and with cutting humour manages to lead us into a lasting state of despair.
Finds:
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
Translated by Nouha Homad
You watch the show Girls because it’s good, because Judd Apatow produces it, because you want to learn what’s happening behind the scenes in the life of today’s women: Why do they look so cynical so early in life? Why do they see themselves as characters without any solution? And so on… It all hangs together because of scriptwriter, director, and actor Lena Dunham’s incredible work. That’s a fact. But at the end of each episode, in spite of a curious humour and a sensibility that saves it from cynicism, there is an aftertaste of unease, which is difficult to shake off. Dunham who, at 26, has already directed a feature film and several shorts, finds herself directing this surreal HBO series (surreal because it offers a true glimpse behind the curtain: these are the experiences of twentysomethings in big cities), and her individual touch makes you think that very shortly she will be a star. Girls moves slowly. Dunham’s cameras travel but are not invasive. Her characters, kids who have begun to feel old, are seen in fancy restaurants, playing at being adults. They go through life seeking a prolonged adolescence. The plot turns on Hannah Horvath, a well-to-do New Yorker, who, in her twenties, finally finds herself forced to face her responsibilities as an adult (work, bills, the future, love), and with cutting humour manages to lead us into a lasting state of despair.
Finds:
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
