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El surrealismo de Darren Aronofsky

Jaime Perales Contreras

¡Madre! (2017), de Darren Aronofsky, es un filme surrealista. O, como diría el rumano Stefan Baciu, es una película surrealizante. Es decir, intenta continuar de alguna forma esta gran corriente…

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Leaving the Party

So Mayer

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign memoir is currently the 5th bestselling title on Amazon US. Its title, What Happened?, could also be given to Sally Potter’s thrilling new film The…

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Locarno, 70 años de amor al cine

Rodrigo Carrizo Couto

El histórico festival de cine suizo, considerado de forma unánime como uno de los festivales más antiguos y prestigiosos del mundo, celebra hoy su 70 aniversario lleno de fuerza, pero…

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Towards Faces

So Mayer

In her new film Visages, Villages (2017), co-directed with artist JR, Agnès Varda speaks on the voice-over of going “vers de visages,” towards faces. The documentary travels with Varda and…

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The Big Sick

Andrew Hopf

Two of the most common and inexcusable offenses a movie can commit are not trying hard enough or trying too hard; overextending and lessening the film’s impact as a result.…

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Vida de familia, de Alicia Scherson y Cristián Jiménez

Naief Yehya

Bruno (Cristián Carvajal), su esposa Consuelo (Blanca Lewin) y su hija Sofi (Adara Casassus) están a punto de irse a pasar una temporada en Francia pero necesitan a alguien que…

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Becoming Who I Was

Loris Simon Salum

I try not to miss the Seattle International Film Festival every year, but I’m not always so lucky. This year, I was. I saw Becoming Who I Was (2017), directed…

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A Date for Mad Mary

Lorís Simón Salum

Just like many of the films from the Seattle International Film Festival, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) was an expected, yet pleasant surprise. Written by brothers Darren and Colin…

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Aliens

Jaime Perales Contreras

Alien (1979), de Ridley Scott, es una película que tuvo la virtud del momento. El ambiente de asfixia y terror de un letal monstruo polizonte que dedica su tiempo libre…

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Light, Writing

So Mayer

It’s a cliché to say that cinematography means ‘writing with light’ – and equally a cliché to say that one of the things cinema struggles with most is showing writers…

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Distopía feminista: The Handmaid’s Tale

Miguel Cane

El lanzamiento en la plataforma digital Hulu de la serie de TV de diez capítulos basada en la hoy clásica novela de la canadiense Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale –editada…

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