It is just that the year in which the film presents Spanish in San Sebastian (his festival right) two of the best and most provocative films that have been seen in time, Shell is for one of them. Not so much provincialism (also) as a simple and obvious recognition. And merit is even greater because rarely the level of competition section was so high, so refined, so inviting.
Carlos Vermouth , also pointed to Shell Silver for Best Director, as well as confirming a filmmaker whose limit at every step, seems more difficult to predict. With ‘Magical girl’, was formerly director illustrator in this paper is confirmed as a refined maze creator of atmospheres (all perfectly murky). It says to create a story has to draw it before: “If I can sum up the film in a simple drawing is that no movie.” Add that understands film as a way of manipulating the viewer. And, more relaxed, it casts recognize who does not understand that what makes it “supernecesario”: “I do not want to waste money to anyone”
The whole story of the film has won. Golden Shell running in the back of the screen . It is the viewer who is invited to build the fractured tale of a wounded woman. The captivating register that looks Bárbara Lennie, José and Luis Bermejo Sacritán as fronts in which, from the shadow of a doubt the threat is projected move. The accuracy of a relentless and always aware of the gaps, the excitement, the cold direction, is responsible for everything else.
The result is a ribbon at the boundary between truth and Fear . Undoubtedly, the principle of a director who in just two films (this and ‘Diamond Flash’) has already built a world.
And so, suddenly, a film director and minimum modal sneaks into the top list of winners of the 62nd edition of the Festival of San Sebastián. Neither the purified inner reflection of ‘The minimum island’ by Alberto Rodriguez or the precise virtuosity and beautiful film Mia Hansen-Love and ‘Eden’ or dirty gesture Argentina ‘Outdoors’ Anahi Berneri , and the ease to mix melodrama genre films with Christian Petzold in ‘Phoenix’ , no, no of them, the winner was the one who was. Without a doubt. All favorite competing in the same arc probabilities. And directly responsible for this achievement is a director, José Luis Rebordinos , which in less than four years has turned completely to the appointment of cinema more important in Spain.
Beside, the Special Jury Award was the last to arrive for the competition. Vie sauvage (Wild Life), Cédric Kahn , is a film based on a true story; one of the events, shall we say, most important media in the recent France. A father kidnapped his own children and lived with them for six years so uncomfortable foreign affairs as civilization
The film, like the story itself, is kept in suspense between fiction and documentary.; between the wild and the scheduled; between calm and rage. The adventure of the three outlaws (for that is) in a world (ours) in which there is no room for anything other than what it should be thus becomes a kind of western melodrama in which no no other reason than the border itself, either. And in the background, irresolubre conflict between a father and a mother who claimed her own, flesh of his flesh. Directed with ease, precision and long outburst, the film is also a sensitive portrait of the time; of passing time.
The rest of the honors list was complying with the protocol. Unfair perhaps in a year like this. For ‘The minimum island’, the other Spanish, awards were Best Actor (Javier Gutiérrez) and Best Cinematography (Alex Alcantara). said this last thing that counts in the film is the atmosphere. And hit. Because tape Alberto Rodríguez more than just look, you breathe, you sweat even. Beside her, Danish actress Paprika Steen was identified as actress editing ending (poor Nina Hoss) and no one dared to take the chair to the script of Dennis Lehane for delivery.
And so it, Magical girl, a film that actually is more. From the outside, it might even be a way forward. From inside the sweltering year invitation to the movies. In his hands, the reality is simply a disease.
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