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| sacmersault | May 29 2018, 06:13 PM Post #1 |
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So, I tried to stick with a Mexican cinema to make it known. This time it was difficult. Originally wanted something more experimental and older, but I had trouble finding stuff with subs and/or good quality. If you can get your hands on it or don't mind the quality I recommend you watch: The Secret Formula (Gamez, 1965) En este pueblo no hay ladrones (Isaac, 1965) Viento distante (Laiter, Michel, Vejar, 1965) Tajimara (Gurrola, 1965) Un alma pura (Ibanez, 1965) Juego de Mentiras (Burns, 1967) Los Caifanes (Ibanez, 1967) I chose this film because it won the Teddy Award back then and it's attempt at trying to bring a mythology to a modern love story. The film is well made and has a good look, plus it makes a love story of people that are usually marginalized in Mexican society: homosexuals and poor people. ![]() ![]()
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| Lencho of the Apes | Jun 5 2018, 05:26 PM Post #2 |
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Let's go do some crimes
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Yikes, has no-one... well, I see Mario watched it, but no-one's written anything about this yet? Poor show. I really disliked this director's Cielo Dividido from three (?) years earlier, and in this one he's still doing most of the things that bugged me in that one, many of them repeated verbatim from last time around. This one's more palatable, only because he gives such free rein to his ability to create striking images; the formal accomplishments go a long way to redeeming any conceptual shortcomings he may have. What I disliked: he doesn't seem to be able to engage with a broad spectrum of people or environments -- it all seems to be about "the guys I went to Uni with and the places we used to hang out." That's fine once, I guess... for your graduation thesis... but it's not enough to build an artistic career on. Minimizing dialogue and making everything close to wordless limits his ability to create "novelistic" narratives with any depth of characterization; if he's aiming for a different set of goals, that can be valid, but this myth/psychodrama is pretty dang shallow. The guy with the streety affectations is conflicted, and spying on the m/m couple he envies triggers all sort of anxieties and discomforts in him? Sure, whatever, but padding that out to three hours and turning it into some mock-epic sword-n-sandal Fisher King fantasy, well... not so much. It really didn't need to be as long as it was. Also, I have real reservations about his need to include a subplot about m/f sexual relationships as part of his m/m warrior-soul whatever fantasy; it seems to indicate that he doesn't feel that gay-qua-gay life can be meaningful as a thing unto itself independent of the sexual orthodoxy. A great movie for screen-caps, though. PS: significant demerit for the tacky Hiroshima Mon Amour quotation. |
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| Lencho of the Apes | Jun 5 2018, 05:29 PM Post #3 |
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Juego de Mentiras and Los Caifanes are both great movies, but the copies online are just miserably bad. I hear Caifanes was screened recently at one of the big tastemaker NYC/DC archives, so maybe there'll be a restoration/rerelease happening sometime soon.
Edited by Lencho of the Apes, Jun 5 2018, 05:31 PM.
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| Mario Gaborovic | Jun 5 2018, 08:55 PM Post #4 |
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g legs' wife's lover
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Excellent cinematography but I find sex scenes too long and uninteresting- in ANY movie, let alone here where there's tons of them, one after another. The last chapter sort of make it up, as long as synopsis implicate what's this film about.
Edited by Mario Gaborovic, Jun 5 2018, 08:56 PM.
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