In Hollywood, it is very common actors to decide to turn directors. Some have success, others not. Perhaps the biggest reason this to happen is only for satisfying the proper ego of the artist, who longs for to start to have an intellectual status. The majority of these films directed for actors is without soul, honesty and completely pretentious. The biggest example of Hollywood is Kevin Costner, that tried to be a new John Wayne mixed Clint Eastwood and that, with rare rightness, did not give very certain. The known Brazilian case, but not only, is of the actor Selton Mello, with his false masterpiece " Feliz Natal".
The biggest problem of "Feliz Natal" it is exactly the pretension excess, that by the way was very celebrated by very critical, the reason nobody knows. Selton Mello makes an exercise of so poor, pretentious and previously style that the film pulls out innumerable yawns of the spectator. And the actor still cited influences of the Argentine Lucrecia Martel and the American John Cassavetes. Serious? Therefore this "son" of the two geniuses of the cinema it is more for Frankenstein.
"Feliz Natal" it still possess all the clichés of Brazilian films, since the construction of the personages until the angle used in the filming, and we go to agree that Selton Mello is far from being a Claudio Assis, for example.
Selton Mello very started badly the career of director in a boring workmanship that only serves to increase the ego of the proper author. It is a film without soul. I only hope that Selton Mello does not fall in the same end that the American actor Kevin Costner. By the way, it has a personage of "Celebrity" of Woody Allen that made me remember the reason of "Feliz Natal" to have been carried through.
The biggest problem of "Feliz Natal" it is exactly the pretension excess, that by the way was very celebrated by very critical, the reason nobody knows. Selton Mello makes an exercise of so poor, pretentious and previously style that the film pulls out innumerable yawns of the spectator. And the actor still cited influences of the Argentine Lucrecia Martel and the American John Cassavetes. Serious? Therefore this "son" of the two geniuses of the cinema it is more for Frankenstein.
"Feliz Natal" it still possess all the clichés of Brazilian films, since the construction of the personages until the angle used in the filming, and we go to agree that Selton Mello is far from being a Claudio Assis, for example.
Selton Mello very started badly the career of director in a boring workmanship that only serves to increase the ego of the proper author. It is a film without soul. I only hope that Selton Mello does not fall in the same end that the American actor Kevin Costner. By the way, it has a personage of "Celebrity" of Woody Allen that made me remember the reason of "Feliz Natal" to have been carried through.