I am big! It's the pictures that got small ». The phrase is from Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in The Twilight of the Gods (Billy Wilder, 1950) and is well worth describing all this fasting time from movies and premieres . From Tenet to Papicha , from heroic blockbuster to no less daring independence, there is a list of 20 options to regain faith this summer 2020 . "The cinema is great. It is the streaming movies that have become small", would be worth as a conjunctural translation of the above.
1. Tenet by Christopher Nolan (July 17)
Robert Pattinson has confessed that he simply does not understand anything; he does not dare to say anything, and even, under the circumstances, he does not believe in anything. After seeing the film for the first time, he understood nothing. Christopher Nolan's palindromic film is called to be the great enigma of summer and who knows if of the year, the decade or simply the pandemic. Again, the ' haters ' of the director of ' Interstellar ' will be faced with the difficult dilemma of salivating or dumping bile. On paper it is a rereading of the spy movies of a lifetime. But of what life? Agents played by John David Washington and Pattinson himself face the difficult mission of preventing a third World War. In his hands an infallible weapon: reversing one's time. Once again, Nolan returns to his most precious obsession: transforming the screen into the unique and spectacular setting of an abyss outside of time, at the same distance from the very being of cinema as from, of course, nothing.
2. Mulan, by Niki Caro (July 24)
Disney returns to its latest favorite obsession: turning yesterday's animated heroes into flesh and blood beings of today. Niki Caro , director before ' In the Land of Men' , promises a feminist reading of the most obviously warrior heroine the mouse factory has been capable of. With 'The Lion King' , Jon Favreau's flamboyant attempt brushed the most inappete of ridicule. Let's hope, at least, that this time the animals keep their mouths shut.
3. Wonder Woman 1984, by Patty Jenkins (August 14)
If there was a reason for Patty Jenkins' approach to the superheroine to be due to her lack of prejudice, her uncomplexed celebration of everything that the original comic had of simple and happy comics. Well, start again. Gal Gadot is there to remind us that the most effective of superpowers is not to be heavy. A great responsibility without a doubt.
4. Pinocchio, by Matteo Garrone (July 3)
After passing through the Berlinale, Garrone's Pinocchio is there to be a dream, a simple nightmare. And that, despite the emphatic nature of the statement, is good. What is most striking about the adaptation of the director of ' Gomorra ', and with Roberto Benigni as soul and Geppetto , is his vocation for the shadows. And it is not so much an exercise in heterodoxy, but quite the opposite. The closer to Carlo Collodi's original lyrics , the more painful. Pinocchio is, by definition, a confused being. And provocative. It is human, but it is still a simple wooden puppet. Like Jesus Christ himself, he was made flesh by supernatural intervention, and his father was but a modest carpenter. Its origin is in the elegant and cruel manners of the Comedy of art. And in the Jewish legend of the Golem. A superb, confusing, baroque and deeply sad film . Pure celebration, come on.
5. Father there is only one 2: the arrival of the mother-in-law, by Santiago Segura (August 7)
Yes, it's back. The greatest success of Spanish cinema in its last season has taken a pandemic to return. The comparison is a little rough, but it is. Segura once again insists on the keys to a comedy without edges, direct and so white that it makes you blush. Pure effectiveness without age. Once again, a good ear for all the obvious, supported by the chaos that the wasup groups have brought to our lives, promises that what was last year will be this one. The screen share of the national cinema has in this sequel its safe mana.
6. Where are you, Bernadette, by Richard Linklater (July 10)
With almost a year late (everything is already a year late), summer brings us a 'rare bird ' designed to baffle unconditional fans and make the unwary fall in love. Richard Linklater (yes, the director of the best movie of the 21st century: ' Boyhood ') adapts a ' best-seller' to propose the tormented and crazy adventure of a woman pure torment and pure nonsense. Cate Blanchett is unraveled and in excess and loss, the film ends up finding its center that is nothing more than the off-center point on which all ellipses rotate. It is comedy and it is chaos.
7. Under the Skin, by Jonathan Glazer (July 10)
Within the erratic panorama of an impromptu premiere schedule, a surprise. The greatest of all. Released in the world in 2013, step on the Spanish screen now turned into a cult. Based on the Michael Faber eponymous novel, the film stops at an alien adventure on Earth (Scotland to be precise); a creature whose diet (hers and hers) basically consists of human meat. She is Scarlett Johansson like never before and never after. And Glazer does it again. Again, as in his previous works, the British filmmaker plays to unravel, shred and reconstruct the genres in a meticulous, enveloping and magnetic exercise of cinematographic pulse. What on paper announces a kind of zombie apocalypse, on the screen becomes a hypnotic ritual around the corner with the secret of the flesh (which, do not doubt, there is).
8. White on White, by Theo Court (July 31)
The Spanish Theo Court proposes what is called to be one of the Spanish films of the year. Although everything happens in Tierra del Fuego, although the Chilean Alfredo Castro is the protagonist. A photographer approaches a distant place to portray not so much life as all the barbarism that, from time to time, makes it not so much possible as it is unnecessary. The result is a haunting, brutal, sleepwalking and unforgettable neo-western . That in addition to a powerful reflection on art and on everything that justifies it.
9. Rosa's wedding, by Icíar Bollaín (August 21)
Icíar Bollaín inaugurates the Malaga Festival in August, not in March, with a new portrait of a character condemned to be free. Said like that, it sounds like an advertising slogan or a new normal oxymoron, but it is only certainty. As in ' Yuli ', as in ' The olive tree' , as in ' Kathmandu ', the director's universe lives in the need to discuss everything debatable that, in truth, is simply everything. This time, Candela Peña is in charge of running away from everything, including her own family, which means a long-delayed director-actress reunion.
10. The Kelly Gang, by Justin Kurzel (July 3)
From Justin Kurzel like his will and accuracy when using the camera as a hammer. The person in charge of the most brutal version of ' Macbeth ' reconstructs the life of Australian bandit Ned Kelly from the evidence that everything that does not bleed explodes. There are movies that stain more than life and this is one of them.
11. Everything happens in Tel Aviv, by Sameh Zoabi (July 3)
A comedy about the Arab-Israeli conflict seems as delirious as a musical starring Pedro Sánchez and Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo . But everything is to get. At the time. Sameh Zoabi is responsible for this prodigy who was frozen on the card just before quarantine. The unlikely relationship between a Palestinian soap opera director and a fanatical Jewish soap opera viewer guides the way to a brilliant comedy that is also clever and labyrinthine metacomedy. Now for the musical.
12. A White, White Day, by Hylinur Palmason (June 26)
While we were confined and, of course, sad, Filmin saw fit to schedule the DA Festival. And among all the disruptive, sharp and perplexing proposals, this wonder. Icelandic Hylnur Palmason turns a revenge ' thriller ' into a fine, surgical, and wounding study of pain, mourning, and death. All this covered by the white mist.
13. The Piano Teacher by Jan Ole Gerster (July 17)
The director of the deeply desolate 'Oh boy' , an irrefutable debut, faces his second film with a character study that is also an x-ray of the deepest of fractures: the one that separates and unites, both things at the same time , a mother and a son. The result is an immersive drama inspired and sustained by actress Corinna Harfouch's performance at the limit of all precipices in the role of Lara (thus, with her name, she is originally titled).
14. The Hunt, by Craig Zobel (July 31)
A script by David Lindelof is enough argument to leave what is being done and flee to the cinema. Something is going to happen. The man who has best reflected the racial question in the United States (here ' Watchmen ') signs a story with a soul of metaphor as deranged as it is evident. A group of people wake up in a lost place to realize that the same destiny unites them: all of them are precious pieces of a hunting day . The rest is so grotesque, brutal and maddening that someone might venture that it is life itself. But do not exaggerate.
15. Let the music play, by Peter Cattaneo (July 24)
Do you remember 'Full Monty '? How to forget it. Its director changes rhythm, but without changing the melody. Now it is about counting the friendship that thanks to music develops and even exalts the wives of the military (with Kristin Scott Thomas in charge) who have to go to Afghanistan, to the war of. They don't get naked, but they do sing and dance. The menu is what it is: more or less biased cinema to feed good feelings and humming stanzas. As old (maybe stale) as irresistible.
16. The Room, by Christian Volckman (August 7)
The French Volckman plays to the wishes and few moments as propitious to wish as this one post- pandemic or pre-outbreak . The director imagines a house with a room capable of fulfilling any wish. That was what the coveted Zone did in Tarkovski's classic ' Stalker '. And you know, just as dangerous is the man who craves something he can't have as the one who has absolutely everything. The first is killed by desire and the second is killed by wanting something. Let's say the movie is handled erratically by a puzzle that would take a lot more. That yes, the final turn, well deserves that it enters the list that concerns us.
17. Papicha, dreams of freedom, by Mounia Meddour (July 17)
Algeria in the 90s and with the rigor of the radicals as a disease is the setting for a beautiful, original and moving feminist story. On the one hand, the true fact of its improvable outcome (when not only rough), Meddour's directorial debut seems as irresistible as its facility to construct metaphors with the flight of dresses over the female body. On her release rather.
18. The Glorious Chaos of Life, by Shannon Murphy (August 21)
Another debut. In this case, grace is at risk. Beyond excesses and pomposities (all that there is), it is convenient to keep the best. And, indeed, there is the undisguised commitment to discuss and refute all the commonplaces of adolescent cinema from a hard premise like flint: the cancer of a teenager. This is announced from the first sequence in which, before the evidence of having nothing to lose, the protagonist dares literally with (and against) everything. And there they appear questioned from the family to the social class through motherhood, education or, why not, the haircut.
19. Some beasts, by Jorge Riquelme Serrano (June 26)
A fable without a soul, therefore heartless. That could be the summary of the second film of the Chilean who deserved all the congratulations at the last San Sebastian Festival. With veteran Paulina García at the forefront, a cold, thoughtful and meticulous story progresses that, as the title says, leaves neither hostages nor wounded. An isolated family in the middle of nowhere can be a brutal metaphor for all the confinements in the world.
20. Up to Heaven, by Daniel Calparsoro (August 28)
The already veteran Calparsoro , an author filmmaker in the 90s and an estejanovista of everything imaginable later, proposes a rare experiment in which the 'thriller' is mixed with something similar to the social portrait. Experienced actors like Luis Tosar to the side faces more or less new and Miguel Herran share square and flat with a group of natural actors, not actors or simple spontaneous in a film that wants to be a reworking of the film ' quinqui ' 80s There are muggings , there is a fever and there is a street . Summer ends here.
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