Belmonte (2018) Poster

(2018)

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7/10
Metaphysical art
heraclitusdark31 May 2021
The film is artistic, the shots are incredible. Although the story could have been a little more developed, it seems to me that it reflects in an incredible way the problem of the protagonist, we only see the world of that strange painter, his daughter is familiar to us, his problems are familiar but at the same time they are strange to us, there is something there that makes him to be him and us, the spectators, to be us, we see an exposition of a man's life, a life with problems like anyone else's but that alludes to something else, an emptiness and another problem that does not come out on camera, and this makes the film wonderful, it does not tell us the main problem of the protagonist, we feel it. It does not tell us what happens to the protagonist but in his actions, in his eyes we see it, we see what is beyond the camera, the metaphysical that torments our artist.

The protagonist's performance is extremely memorable, with his eyes and expressions he manages to transmit an infinite number of things, without him the film would surely not have been so memorable.
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3/10
Give this one a miss
miggymartinez7 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This overly sympathetic portait of a male artist who (wants to but) cannot look after his amazing kid rubbed me up the wrong way.

It's really patriarchy at work to have the focus on the exhusband and his various flings. Although yes it is true he seems perhaps realising the error of his ways. I wanted more about the kid! She was supercool. The exwife was also underdeveloped.
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