Finally! We have a Costa Rican film in which all the elements align to create a wonderful piece. A good screenplay, great actors (specially the little boy, he's amazing!), pristine direction, editing, etc. The movie is entertaining, heart warming, easy to watch and thought provoking. It's a great insight into life in San José, and the way of the "tico", but still dealing with many regional and universal topics. It's truly refreshing to see Latin American films that DON'T focus on extreme poverty, drug addiction, corruption, homosexuality, crime, etc., in order to be artistic or indie. With El Regreso you won't see any of that, as it is just a plain good story of a man coming to terms with his past and rediscovering the beauty in his family, old friends and his home town. I can't wait for Hernan's next film.
3 Reviews
In the Top 10 of Costarrican movies
pinoandres28 March 2020
So great!
Macalehe2 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The movies in Costa Rica is coming back! We like to see us in the big screen, it means identity, and it's great!
Hernán Jiménez is a young director, I think is a director that has a dream, a simple dream: make movies in Costa Rica, about Costa Rica. For us development of cinema is difficult, we don't have the Hollywood industry, but we try, and EL REGRESO is a good example of that.
EL REGRESO is a fresh movie, that show us all faces of San José (capital of Costa Rica), it means the good and bad. With a story about a young writer that come back to Costa Rica to visit his sick father.He has to solve his issues about his family, to follow his live.
The movie is funny most of the time, some points of drama (not to long), I enjoy, and all the people that saw it.
I definitely recommend.
Thanks Hernán for make movies that show us to the world, just the way we are!
Hernán Jiménez is a young director, I think is a director that has a dream, a simple dream: make movies in Costa Rica, about Costa Rica. For us development of cinema is difficult, we don't have the Hollywood industry, but we try, and EL REGRESO is a good example of that.
EL REGRESO is a fresh movie, that show us all faces of San José (capital of Costa Rica), it means the good and bad. With a story about a young writer that come back to Costa Rica to visit his sick father.He has to solve his issues about his family, to follow his live.
The movie is funny most of the time, some points of drama (not to long), I enjoy, and all the people that saw it.
I definitely recommend.
Thanks Hernán for make movies that show us to the world, just the way we are!
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