The Spanish film ‘The island of the Faisanes’first feature film of Asier Urbieta, and the Mexican ‘Dirty’by Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, they agree on the premiere this weekend and also coincide in their gaze to a raw reality and … hard in border areas and in situations of helplessness, violence and need to flee. It also opens ‘The End’directed by the American Joshua Oppenheimeran apocalyptic musical with a few stars in its cast, such as Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Geoge Mackay and Moses Ingram.
‘The island of the Faisanes’ is a social intrigue located in a curious place, the so -called island of the Faisanes, in the middle of the Bidasoa River and whose condominium belongs half a year to Spain and the other to France, and place of passage for clandestine immigration. Urbieta tells a story with a corpse in the middle as a witness of the dangerous border trajín, although the story lightens the intrigue to focus on the description of police, especially French actions, and in a feeling of solidarity and guilt of the two protagonists, a young woman who tries to rescue two immigrants who cross the river, and her partner, stuck on the shore without being able to help her.
The intention is to show, in addition to the peculiar of the terrain and its circumstances, the current of fraternity that drives the characters and their nonconformity with a situation full of legal gaps, intolerance and icy bureaucracy. The director does not squeeze all the dramatic possibilities of the story or the somewhat loose lines of his intrigue, and he is interested, instead, by the description of spaces, people and folklore at that crossing of cultures, languages and hardships.
Review of ‘Sujo’
The Mexican ‘Sujo’ has another nerve inside and in the history of that child who presence his father’s murder for a revenge of the ‘drug traffickers’, which has to be collected and hidden by an aunt of his and who, over time, also enters that violent and without future world. The directors take care of the quality of the image and its symbolic strength, impose a slow rhythm to the narrative, which entertains and wanders for the childhood of that young man and his little family, although he charges a certain verve in his second half, when Dirtyalready after adolescence, it focuses on the material that the movie wants to talk about: exit, to arrive, fight … there is a good character, a teacher who interprets Argentina Sandra Lozano.
Review of ‘The End’
‘The End’, de Joshua Oppenheimerwas presented at the last San Sebastian Festival without excessive impact; It is a rare film, located when our world is already finished and a family survives in an incredible and luxurious refuge underground, and history works as a musical parable about the relocation of the past in the present. A woman arrives at that class’ place that has seen all its people die and the debate arises if you have to welcome or expel it; That is, that in a way he also speaks (or sings) of hospitality and shelter to which he arrives in death.
And the rare qualifier has been used because the laborious setting effort is shocking, with incredible decorations, also the interpretation effort, with Tilda Swinton, Michael Shanon and George Mackay stuck without modest Although its duration is more than generous. Although its audacity and the extraordinary of its elements (and among them, the actors) compensates for the long time used to see it.
