In Spanish, English and French with English subtitles) (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Netherlands, 2012, 115 min. “An extraordinary film about the unknown and the unknowable." I don't know how you can put more into a film, or make one that's more deeply moving." The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies 19th century explorers and miners and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.
In Spanish with English subtitles)įilm master director Patricio Guzman, famed for his political documentaries ( The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT / NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ(Patricio Guzmán, France/Germany/Chile/Spain, 2011, 90 min. “From the raw material of memory made something that nearly erases the difference between artifice and life, as well as the distance between past and present.”ĥ. Remarkably photographed in gorgeous black and white (also by Cuarón) this film is mesmerizing in every aspect. Cuarón’s return to Mexico after 17 years in Hollywood, Roma is a magnificent example of a master telling a deeply personal story with impeccable craft. An incredible work of social realism, Roma chronicles a year from Cleo’s perspective, featuring the emotional and domestic labor she provides to the family and her rare personal moments away from the home. In Spanish, Mixtec, and English with English subtitles)īased on director Alfonso Cuarón’s own childhood in a middle-class home in 1970s Mexico City, Roma is the gentle and intricate portrait of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), the family’s housekeeper and nanny. YouTube, Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, iTunes, Hulu, Kanopy Spellbinding… Beautiful isn’t strong enough a word.” The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.
In Spanish, Portuguese, Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Wanano, German, Catalan, Latin, and English with English subtitles)Īt once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace of the Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. (Ciro Guerra, Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina, 2015, 125 min. EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT / EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE "The Best Film of the Year! For nearly fourteen hours, this protean magnum opus, held together by an extraordinary quartet of actresses, immerses us in the pleasures of densely detailed fiction."ģ. sweeping and addictive… the definition of a must-see.”
a dazzling collision of stories and genres, flashbacks and voiceovers, games and riddles… extraordinary. An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction-all of them without endings-to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. In Spanish with English subtitles)Ī decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. (Mariano Llinás, Argentina, 2018, 803 min.
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