Thoughts: Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) goes with her mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) to the country to stay with her new father Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez). Ofelia hates it at the new place and soon her mother falls ill due to her pregnancy. Ofelia’s only friend is Mercedes and a labyrinth she finds on the grounds. The movie is filled with violence and war mixed with fantasy and magic. I loved how dark the film was; it was like a fairy tale with underlining of evil. I got to see the movie through Pigern’s work so after the film there was a Q and A with the director Guillermo de Toro who has done works like Hellboy and Cronos. It was good to hear his take on making the film and the direction he was trying to take it. Oh and FTC, they shot most of the film in Segovia, Spain. Oh, Spain!!
(M) Metropolitan. (Whit Stillman, 1990) Grade: B-
Thoughts: I was close to stopping the film because snobby, rich, white kids talking is not interesting to me, however a poor, smart kid is, so I kept watching. Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) falls into a group of rich kids lead by Nick Smith (Chris Eigeman) and spends the next few months becoming their friend. There is much dialogue, most of it pretentious dribble that gets tiresome; but there were some sweet moments. The film is loosely adapted from “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen and within the movie they do discuss Fanny Price and her views of poor society to rich society, which is a common Austen theme.
(M) Casa De Areia (House of Sand). (Andrucha Waddington, 2005) Grade: B
Thoughts: The plot has been described by Pigern’s blog so I’ll just add some notes. Apparently, the director Waddington wrote the two major roles specifically for his real life wife, Fernanda Torres and mother-in-law, Fernanda Montenegro. I think casting a mother and daughter is great because it can capture real life emotion due to the connection. In addition, Fernanda Montenegro is an amazing actress and I loved her in Central Station. The only downside of the film was how slow starting the film was but aside from that it was good.
Count: 112 movies
1 comment:
Such a great movie! Too bad I was scared during all the violent bits. Ha! Director del Toro is fantastic. I loved everything he had to say.
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