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Temporada de patos (2004)
A film that actually tries something different...
This is a film without the snobism and pretentious approaches to Mexican culture. First, I don't see it as an art film. Anyone who's trying to disqualify this movie because is "artsy" it's way wrong.
The story begins with two boys being left alone in a apartment, it's mid-Sunday and the only things to do it's to play Halo, eat pizza and drink a gigantic Coke. Visually the films captures the very essence of the plot: it's boring, but in a good way. The camera doesn't makes any pan, or zoom..it doesn't move at all, just clean cuts between takes. Every take is almost a scene. Did i mention is shoot in glorious black and white? Yet, there's not a single moment you are not pushed (as the characters) to become entertained. And basically that's the whole point of the movie, to see how boring is just and excuse we make to resist the simplicity of life. Don't go to see this movie expecting, an extraordinary thespian ability, or and overwhelming cinematography, this is a story with soul, presented in an original and fresh way. There's people saying this film is just marketing and no product. First, this movie doesn't relies on nonsense soundtracks cd's, or posters or enormous displays to attract audience, they trust in the word of mouth system, the production company plays it for free somewhere and the rest is up to you and me. Don't try to get too philosophical with this one, just enjoy, like if you don't have anything better to do. 10/10
Rumores (2001)
Nice try...
The day I saw the "sitcom" on local TV, I was totally dissapointed, their firsts episodes lacked of chemistry or freshnesh. I just turned off the TV set and went to sleep. Six month later in the paper there was an article about the series changing from one station to another, with a better schedule and lots of production. Now is almost two years from the very first airing and even certain things have changed, there´s still way to go. This series is kind of a mix between "The naked truth", "Newsradio" and "Just shoot me" (at least thats is the aim of the producers and writers)and a little glimpse of "Friends" (they even carbon-copied a inside joke from Friends, using a white board). But even the three leading actor have nice theater skills, they seem to be overreacted every single time, like watching a play that was planned to be enjoyed from the last row in the theater, but at 3 feet far. The rest of the cast goes from just fine, to regular. The result feels like "Veronica´s Closet" or "Caroline in the City".
The material side of the series, is however just great, good lighting, editing, sound and set decoration (they would better go for the standard sitcom format, but they user a regular T.V. drama framing/editing method.) So, in the end, "Rumores" is a very nice try to do a sitcom in "all-american-style" but it just doesn´t do the final chemistry, there´s so much to do.