since last week, i've been pretty much engrossed with catching as much peliculas as i can in this year's spanish filmfest at greenbelt 3. as of now, i managed to watch 7: concursante, los crimenes de oxford, yo soy la juani, la caja, bajo las estrellas, siete mesas de billar frances and el violin. the most recurring and glaring theme across these movies is the topic of death... one's death and how it frees you from this cycle called life and how with death of a loved one (or despised one), one chooses to move on and start all over again.
in concursante, martin dies when trying to destroy all the prizes he won so that he can run away from the hassles these things have brought him. the oxford murders is a mathematical whodunnit tale of murders in the university town of well, oxford, that starred elijah wood and the convincing john hurt. juani's dad is about to die, when she decided to leave her town (mainly due to the failure of her teenage love affair with jonah) for a more promising career (as a calendar pinup) in cosmo city of madrid.
la caja is about a don lucio, a universally despised man in a town in canaria and how this whole town led a new life, found their voice and freedom after his passing. benny went home to his native town to see his father who was dying in bajo las estrellas. along the process, he saw how his brother deteriorated and how a new life was granted to him when he got close with ainara, daughter of nines, an old friend who was his brother's live-in partner.
siete mesas de billar frances tells the story of angela, who, after losing her father, decides to get out of a full-of-lies marriage and face her own demons, then embrace her true calling. el violin chronicles the struggles of a family of musicians who supports a rural insurgency in an unnamed latin american country. don plutarco, thru his violin, tried to aid the rebels by hiding ammunitions in his violin case but was killed when the military troop learned of his m.o.
i'm still planning to watch 3 more this weekend, so i'll write more about the ones that i like next time.
2 comments:
di ba parang yung pinanood natin last year na tu vida en 65 saka utopia may element of death din? medyo pop nga lang presentation ng death sa tu vida.
sa habana blues ba may namatay?
oo nga 'no... death din yung central theme sa tu vida en 65. wala yatang namatay sa habana blues.
parang mas gusto ko yung mga movies last year kesa yung ngayon. nood pa ako ng fuera de carta at todos somos invitados bukas.
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