On Sunday, April 25, the 26th annual Chicago Latin Film Festival had a special screening of the Argentinean film Felicitas, which included an appearance from the director and the Consul General of Argentina. After the film’s presentation, the director fielded questions during a brief Q&A with the audience.
Felicitas
Directed by: Teresa Costantini
Cast: Sabrina Garciarena, Gonzalo Heredia, Alejandro Awada
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Overall
Here is a story of romance where the “true love” relationship at the core of tragedy is less interesting than those of which the lead character considers to be “distractions.” Felicitas is a seemingly average love story with an even duller dude trying to play Prince Charming. Played by Gonzalo Heredia, he’s only presented through her eyes, and her perspective is somewhat the way a girl may dream about marrying their high school quarterback boyfriend.
The movie isn’t terrible,...
Felicitas
Directed by: Teresa Costantini
Cast: Sabrina Garciarena, Gonzalo Heredia, Alejandro Awada
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Overall
Here is a story of romance where the “true love” relationship at the core of tragedy is less interesting than those of which the lead character considers to be “distractions.” Felicitas is a seemingly average love story with an even duller dude trying to play Prince Charming. Played by Gonzalo Heredia, he’s only presented through her eyes, and her perspective is somewhat the way a girl may dream about marrying their high school quarterback boyfriend.
The movie isn’t terrible,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Quickcard Review
Welcome
Directed by: Philippe Loiret
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana
Running Time: 2hrs 15 min
Rating: R
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Bilal (Ayverdi), a seventeen-year-old Kurdish refugee, arrives in France. He needs to get to London, where the love of his life is now situated with her family, but the French government is not allowing refugees to leave the country. Bilal pays a swimming coach named Simon (Lindon) to train him to swim across the English Channel.
Who’S It For? I think everyone should see this movie. Not only to catch a glimpse of how people are treated in other countries, but we need to see our own shadow as well.
Overall
The Kurdish refugees who fled to Europe were regarded as criminals and interlopers and treated like human detritus. Welcome is unrelenting in its depiction of how these people were treated.
Welcome
Directed by: Philippe Loiret
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana
Running Time: 2hrs 15 min
Rating: R
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Bilal (Ayverdi), a seventeen-year-old Kurdish refugee, arrives in France. He needs to get to London, where the love of his life is now situated with her family, but the French government is not allowing refugees to leave the country. Bilal pays a swimming coach named Simon (Lindon) to train him to swim across the English Channel.
Who’S It For? I think everyone should see this movie. Not only to catch a glimpse of how people are treated in other countries, but we need to see our own shadow as well.
Overall
The Kurdish refugees who fled to Europe were regarded as criminals and interlopers and treated like human detritus. Welcome is unrelenting in its depiction of how these people were treated.
- 2/13/2010
- by Morrow McLaughlin
- The Scorecard Review
This will be the week that goes down as “The attack of the Blue Monkey Cat People” aka Avatar, finally the chance to watch The Hangover over and over and over again, and the time that everyone decided that Up in the Air should win almost every award possible.
DVD Reviews
G-Force: Three-Disc DVD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Copy
Film Reviews
Up in the Air
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Avatar – in 3D
Sleepwalking Land
Video Reviews
Flicks on 6 – Avatar, Up in the Air, Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Flicks on 6 – Golden Globes, Inglourious Basterds and The Hangover
Next week brings Extract, (500) Days of Summer and more on DVD and in theaters it will be Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated and Nine.
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DVD Reviews
G-Force: Three-Disc DVD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Copy
Film Reviews
Up in the Air
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Avatar – in 3D
Sleepwalking Land
Video Reviews
Flicks on 6 – Avatar, Up in the Air, Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Flicks on 6 – Golden Globes, Inglourious Basterds and The Hangover
Next week brings Extract, (500) Days of Summer and more on DVD and in theaters it will be Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated and Nine.
Related posts:Flicks on 6 – Golden Globes, Inglourious Basterds and The Hangover Box Office Review – Dec. 20 – ‘Avatar’ crushes ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Thanks from Golden Globes nominees – Nine,...
- 12/20/2009
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Quickcard Review
Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonambula)
Directed by: Teresa Prata
Cast: Nick Lauro Teresa, Aladino Jasse, Helio Fumo
Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Plot: A boy with no memory, and the man who found him travel around Mozambique as refugees searching for food. Muidinga (Teresa) finds a journal belonging to Kindzu (Fumo) which he hopes will lead him to his forgotten family.
Who’S It For? Mature fans of international cinema. Though the film stars a child it definitely isn’t for kids.
Overall
Sleepwalking Land defies easy description. A unique film that blends magical realism with a gritty narrative, it’s the story of Muidinga, a child who lost his memory after a serious illness and Tuahir (Jasse), the man who found and saved him. The opening scenes resemble the recent film The Road as the two wander down a path, hiding from a...
Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonambula)
Directed by: Teresa Prata
Cast: Nick Lauro Teresa, Aladino Jasse, Helio Fumo
Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Plot: A boy with no memory, and the man who found him travel around Mozambique as refugees searching for food. Muidinga (Teresa) finds a journal belonging to Kindzu (Fumo) which he hopes will lead him to his forgotten family.
Who’S It For? Mature fans of international cinema. Though the film stars a child it definitely isn’t for kids.
Overall
Sleepwalking Land defies easy description. A unique film that blends magical realism with a gritty narrative, it’s the story of Muidinga, a child who lost his memory after a serious illness and Tuahir (Jasse), the man who found and saved him. The opening scenes resemble the recent film The Road as the two wander down a path, hiding from a...
- 12/18/2009
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula) is a vividly real film that tells a somewhat surreal story about life in Mozambique. The film is directed by Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Prata, based on the increasingly popular and well-respected 1992 novel of the same name by author Mia Couto. This is a movie deserving of a larger audience than it has currently been receiving, screened primarily at international film festivals.
Prata spent seven years making Sleepwalking Land, a feat that demands acknowledgment. The story is that of a young African boy named Muidinga, a name given to him by an elderly man named Tuihir (Aladino Jasse) who claims to have rescued Muindinga from his village before the armed bandits that plague the rural African landscape could capture or kill him. Muidinga (Nick Lauro Teresa) suffers memory loss as a result of eating spoiled yam root, so he’s naturally curious about his past.
As Muidinga and Uncle Tuihir,...
Prata spent seven years making Sleepwalking Land, a feat that demands acknowledgment. The story is that of a young African boy named Muidinga, a name given to him by an elderly man named Tuihir (Aladino Jasse) who claims to have rescued Muindinga from his village before the armed bandits that plague the rural African landscape could capture or kill him. Muidinga (Nick Lauro Teresa) suffers memory loss as a result of eating spoiled yam root, so he’s naturally curious about his past.
As Muidinga and Uncle Tuihir,...
- 11/12/2009
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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