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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Not just another glam-rock film (wouldn´t that be enough, anyway?)
Wonderful... For all those who thought all about glam rock had already been said in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Velvet Goldmine", here is a film to prove you wrong. And it is also not just another musical film, or even a musical poured into a film. It´s beautifully displayed (cinematography, art direction...), wonderfully acted, and above it all... it screams out that glam is not dead, and it can still be painted in a sophisticated and outrageous way. It is always a relief to see that the 80´s could not kill it after all (note: throughout the film, David Bowie still proves he has always been a rock ´n roll messiah).
Sólo por hoy (2001)
Sólo por hoy is part of the new wave of Argentine films...
Sólo por hoy is a well-achieved blend of simple storytelling, realistic and natural acting, good dialogues and attractive cinematography with some camera experimentation. It occurs to me that director Ariel Rotter has influences that range from Eric Rohmer, to Jean-Luc Godard, to 90´s video art and the generation of the music video. Although it shares the timeline of Argentine film history with phenomena in the line of "Pizza, Birra Faso", and a certain tendency to work on the issues concerning marginality, it is a different perspective to watch "Sólo por hoy" and see a way of film-making that is less of the same and more aesthetically eager. I´d say this film is the transition between the "90´s argentine neorealism" I was mentioning before, and films that look up to a more sophisticated visual and actoral challenge.