Ela Bittencourt's column explores South America’s key festivals and notable screenings of Latin films in North America and Europe.Murder Me, Monster“Making a film is close to dreaming,” Carlos Reygadas said in his Master Class at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. “When you’re dreaming, you’re not thinking is this a traveling or a close-up. Film has a unique logic, it’s not logical.” The last phrase is an oxymoron, but filmmakers can surely be both intuitive and calculating. Reygadas envisions entire scenes before filming them, but goes with the flow on the set. And indeed it’s this mix of the planned and the strange, the utterly unpredictable, perhaps even superfluous, that informs some of the best films in this year’s Neighboring Scenes: Latin American Cinema festival.In addition to Reygadas’s pictorially striking Our Time (2018), which opens the festival, daydreams are also palatable...
- 2/20/2019
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