Reviews

A surprising and innovative short about bluff, chaos, determination, choice and mind games. It totally deserved the (shared) 1st place at the AXN Film Festival, because it's hard to believe it is so so good.

I recommend this short to everybody who's tired of bad done and cheap university experimental shorts, for this is the best university film project I've ever seen.

Made as a Thesis short, this film is superb and hard to exceed in quality. I wanna congratulate the filmmakers, and I wish them luck in the cinema world. I can't wait to see director's first feature film!

10/10

Very very good. It's cinematography will surely win the Colombian Film Award next year. The editing and the direction were superb, giving us very well-done tension moments. I liked the story in general and it looked to me extremely claustrophobic.

Such a cool ending. Very scary.

Noelle was very good here, and also the beautiful Julieth Restrepo, in her movie debut. Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Tulipán a lesbian? Cause there are facts that can prove it...

Congratulations, cast and crew, I hope the American remake don't destroy this amazing amazing amazing Colombian movie. Keep working.

Just watched it again, and I felt really disappointed with myself... I compared this at once to the majestic direction of 'Confesion a Laura' and 'Ilona llega con la lluvia', but NO WAY! 'El Colombian Dream' isn't as brilliant as I thought two years ago, it is actually a pointless use of thousands of camera angles/movements alongside a freaky pointless dumb multistory. The script has tons of pseudointellectual phrases and the direction leads people to get sick.

What have I learned? 1) Not to call "brilliant" to every unusual movie I see. 2) Not to call "brilliant" nowadays to something I haven't seen in years. 3) Not to re-watch a movie I liked when I was younger. It may damage its impression in me.

Each episode makes me thrill, in this emotional ride of "Lost". All its action, suspense, mystery and plot in general, is completely amazing, and I haven't heard of anybody who doesn't like it.

The series doesn't only talk about how do 55 (more-or-less) people survive in an strange island, it talks also about how the island is showing them that their lives are not OK, and that they could've make it change with just stop being selfish people.

Everybody has a dark secret, and it slowly reveals throughout the seasons, ending in a typhoon of feelings (guilt and redemption), bad actions from the past (stealing, hating, killing, etc.), and ways to solve each characters lives by forgiving and be forgiven.

Amazing cast, amazing scripts, amazing direction, amazing series.

I went to the pre-release here in Bogota, an that movie let me completely down. I expected more, and it didn't make me laugh in the whole hour and a half. I got disappointed with "Ice Age 2", and I'm surprised, very surprised: two huge embarrassing disappointments in less than two weeks. Hollywood: I'm ashamed on you! I hope "Over the Hedge", "Flushed Away", and/or "Ratatouille" save the day (it's better to say, to save the "worst-animation-movies-year-ever"). I also hope, that Hollywood actors can choose better movies to act in (well, their voices), because we'll be screwed if animation movies in a near future are as lousy as "The (supposedly) Wild".

nobody can't deny to me that Colombian prime-time sucked to hell, before "La Saga". Horrible soap operas like "Pasión de gavilanes", "Me amarás bajo la lluvia", "La Caponera", "Siete veces amada", "Sofía, dame tiempo", "La otra mitad del sol", etc. La Saga charmed people since episode 1, with its excellent narrative, and the excellent story of a cursed family, and the excellent production design. It had the best cast ensemble you can see, and the most incredible thing was that all the actors are Colombian. No exception. Dago García is the best Colombian TV and cinema writer (he has written 8 movies so far), and his creativity and character design is perfect. I never missed one episode, and I hope the network that transmitted it release it out on DVD.

This documentary is so delicate in it's narrative, that it's impossible not to like it. It's technically well-done and well-structured. Edison, Cielo and Jesús, have had a horrible past between war and the hope of the honest life. Unfortunately, Edison dies due to intern war, between two ghettos of the barrio, which is La Sierra. Martínez y Dalton don't want to show Colombia as a third-wold country trying to demonstrate that is more than war and drug dealing. They want to show Medellin, as a city that overcomes intern conflicts with the guerrilla's people reinsertion to the civil community. Actually, that's what happened the past year. An aunt if mine lived nearby La Sierra, in a barrio called Buenos Aires, and she told me that war is the terrible past of a beautiful and working city, called Medellin. Even if other people thinks that Colombia is drugs, war and prostitution, let me tell you that my country is overcoming it, and my country isn't the only one nation that has these problems. War is worldwide. Excellent documentary, I hope an Academy Award Nomination.

Libia Stella Gomez, in her prime opera, surprises us with an aestheticly rich movie: "La Historia del Baúl Rosado" ("The Pink Trunk story"). This movie tells the mysterious case of a dead girl found in a trunk in 1945, which was sent as a post delivery to a town far from Bogota (that is the place where this movie takes place). The art direction, the soundtrack, the costume designs, the performances, the direction, the cinematography, the screenplay... everything is perfect in this movie, although this movie is not perfect. The only thing that this movie doesn't have is a climax moment. But it's quiet a good Colombian-Mexican-Spanish movie, and it is a different film compared to the Colombian others, because it's not about violence, drugs, nor prostitution, and because is one of the few Colombian movies that are directed by a woman. It's very well-done and I'm sure it's one of the best pictures that I've ever seen.

personally, I like the screenplay of this movie, and it has to win the 2006 Academy award to best Adapted Screenplay, best actor in a leading role for Russell, and best actress in a supporting role for Reneé (she's HOT!!) I also liked Paul Giamatti performance, because can do any role, and I liked his performance in Sideways and in Big fat liar. A real story that make us to break into tears, and gives us hope, faith and will. If it's possible, I hope this movie wins the Academy Award for the Best Picture. THE BEST!!! And, just to end my comment, I hope that this movie be in a better position in the top two hundred fifty movies, because it deserves to be in the position number 1, or at least in the top ten.