This time I want to talk about two films that have recently come to British cinemas and most likely will not see the big screen in Colombia. I doubt, moreover, do appear on DVD soon. The reason is very simple: both films have their pleasure for specialist or nostalgic, but definitely not for the massive multiplex and film effects, explosions and violence immeasurable.
The first of the two books I want to mention is "Jackboots on Whitehall" of the brothers McHenry. This satirical piece shot entirely with plastic dolls alreno create a past in which Hitler choose to invade England via a tunnel to emerge directly in front of Whitehall, where the center of British government: the house # 10 Downing Street, where lives and works Winston Churchill as British prime minister.
The humor of the play is based on making fun of stereotypes, use of certain sets of voices of the actors best known in the UK (Ewan McGregor and Richard E. grant including ), and make more of a reference to the films of the war, known actors, and other films that breaks without penalty. Outside of that, not a few political jokes and puns abound. Like all base construction work in that style dolls, and here I think of "Team America", this can not be more than a cult for youth and teens who enjoy vulgarity and absurdity. Although the work does not require great intellectual level, if you require a moderate knowledge of British history and politics of the time, so that the jokes have weight. Therefore, it is doomed to be a local broadcast or film, the best, to be a favorite for fans of this type of humor.
Monty Python quote: "Now for something completely different ..."
The second film to which I refer is "Another year" of Mike Leigh. In this audiovisual work has a year in the life of a happy couple of older adults, who tend their gardens, talk about life, and quietly take his fall. But around him are a number of friends who seem to have lost the fight against time, and have crashed with anxiety about the meaning of his own existence.
This film is incredibly moving, perhaps due to lack of visual and audio devices, allowing us to feel the force of the long silences, blank looks, and gestures clearly shredded by the camera. The emocionesse are nicely described by a wonderful acting group that includes us in his life, which are casual voyeurs.
In a recent film so loaded with effects, not want to talk 3D, this film is a breath that reminds us that it is not always necessary to have a heroic story, but the lives of people, their encounters and conflicts, their successes and failures, are the very fabric of the stories that interest us truth. Desperation see four faces totally different, and each tells a short story, leaving drowsing with the rest of the biography of each character. _________
Appendix: Soon will be coming to movie theaters the film "Let me in" (Let me), directed by Matt Reeves. I am sure that this not be sexual ambiguity and geriatric character in the play cinematográfica de la cual se copia - "Let the right one in" (Låt den rätte komma in) del director Sueco Tomas Alfredson, basada en la novela del mismo nombre. Una lástima que, como ya es costumbre, las grandes obras del cine europeo nos lleguen a Colombia en la versión aguada y manipulada, ajustada al moralismo gringo, para que venda millones en taquilla, inunde las salas de cine, y haga olvidar el tesoro del que surge.
