A lot of filmgoers seem perplexed by or vaguely hostile to the the work of Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj, and to his new film Belmonte (2018) in particular. I love and admire all Veiroj’s films on contact, but I understand how he might perturb others. For a filmmaker who seems to work comfortably within the bounds of story-based naturalism, he throws so many wrenches into the works that one needs an experimentalist temperament to stay with him. And yet there’s nothing violent about his subversion: he is always gentle and tender as he destroys our narrative expectations.Belmonte’s story is so simple that there barely seems to be a movie there. The title character (Gonzalo Delgado), a forceful, driven, somewhat successful artist, seems not to have reassembled his life after his divorce from Jeanne (Jeannette Sauksteliskis), who is pregnant by her new partner. His warm relationship with his...
- 9/10/2018
- MUBI
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