Mubi's retrospective Melancholy & Deadpan: The Films of Martín Rejtman is showing September – November, 2019.The Magic Gloves“I can’t go on. I’ll go on,” Samuel Beckett wrote in The Unnamable. A similar motto underlines the sly, darkly humorous films of the Argentine filmmaker Martín Rejtman. In an interview with Film Comment, after the premiere of his film, The Magic Gloves (2003), at the Locarno Film Festival, Rejtman commented on the stupendous amounts of anti-depressives that his characters take in the movie: “It’s a way of showing how in life you go on, and things don’t affect you so much, and you still go on, and you still go on.” Asked whether his characters are depressed, Rejtman noted that a personal echo of his father’s manic-depressive illness might, in a small way, tinge his films. The depression is certainly a recurring theme; it re-appears in Rejtman’s latest short,...
- 9/19/2019
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Vladimir Durán's So Long Enthusiasm (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from July 5 - August 4, 2018 as a Special Discovery.It’s become almost commonplace to observe that Kafka’s novella Metamorphosis isn’t about an ugly-looking bug, but instead about the inner workings of a family in a time of crisis. When we can’t depend on the support of others, what personal inner resources might we reveal?A similar question drives the Colombian filmmaker Vladimir Durán’s feature debut, So Long Enthusiasm (2017), in which members of a tight-knit family—three sisters in their 20s and an eleven-year-old boy, Axel (Camilo Castiglione)—find themselves cooped up in their apartment in Buenos Aires, with guests and friends coming and going, as their mother, Margarita (Rosario Bléfari) convalesces, locked up in her bedroom.“Dysfunctional...
- 7/6/2018
- MUBI
If made with the best of intentions to explore the always effective chestnut of memory through photographic means, it’s with great misfortune that, in the case of Milagros Mumenthaler’s second feature, The Idea of a Lake, we instead have to zero in on its predominate bad arthouse trait. Of course, this being that the film seemingly admits defeat: a narrative that circles around a lead character moving fruitlessly towards something they’ll never reach, as if we’re supposed to applaud the same vague statement over and over again.
The misguided lead in question, Ines (Carla Crespo), appearing to be in the third trimester of her pregnancy, a point where, obviously, lineage becomes a greater pressure on the mind. This isn’t helped by her strained relationship with her mother, Tessa (Rosario Bléfari); the telephone exchange that opens Idea of a Lake includes the classic parental line about...
The misguided lead in question, Ines (Carla Crespo), appearing to be in the third trimester of her pregnancy, a point where, obviously, lineage becomes a greater pressure on the mind. This isn’t helped by her strained relationship with her mother, Tessa (Rosario Bléfari); the telephone exchange that opens Idea of a Lake includes the classic parental line about...
- 8/9/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
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