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This time, the San Sebastian Classic Restoration section focuses on Italian crime films, mainly those from the 1970s. Now I just think they are more interesting, with dense music, exaggerated sound effects, exciting performances, and borderline scale.

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It can be watched together with San Sebastian's another film "The wailing". Both are about new French immigrants to Argentina, and both have a mystical horror temperament. The only difference is that this movie with a very long title is a more practical and specific cult horror rather than inexplicable supernatural elements. At the same time, it also better portrays the mother-daughter relationship of love and hate.

Almodóvar’s cinematic achievements are inseparable from the passionate and vibrant homeland depicted in his films, as well as the unique characters who live extraordinary lives, yet always manage to evoke both credibility and empathy. He is undeniably the best artist at capturing the intensity of Spanish emotions. But how would his transition to the English-speaking world fare? Would he, like other directors who seem to lose their storytelling spark when moving away from their native language, struggle with this shift? Although Almodóvar confidently believes that his new work “remains spiritually in Spanish,” some of his fans might still feel uneasy without the familiar world of “passionate Spain” that is so central to his previous films. The emotional expression from these two Hollywood superstars, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, is indeed more restrained than that of his usual Spanish collaborators, like Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, and Penélope Cruz. But this is more due to the source material being an American novel, where the themes of dying and mutual support don’t call for over-the-top intensity. Both actresses deeply understood the story’s essence and conveyed a more universal emotional depth in their performances.

Peru in the new century is really good at producing gay films. This time, the story is set during the strictest period of the COVID-19 lockdown. The deserted streets of Lima make the gay protagonist, who has just passed away, feel extremely lonely. Fortunately, the protagonist's hometown in the Andes Mountains was not turned into another Brokeback Mountain. The straight man who came from afar in it cannot be turned gay. At the premiere, two Iquitos filmmakers sat next to me and expressed their crazy support for the good movies in their homeland.

In any brutal civil war, it is inevitable to meet fellow countrymen from the enemy camp, so can we chat? In order to convey the pacifist ideal humorously, the movie sets up an ignorant young man who loves to draw comics and lets him go to the battlefield. But in order to become a funny and tearful tragedy like "Life is Beautiful", the screenwriter's efforts are obviously not enough.

For most of the documentary, the film presents a comprehensive portrayal of the military dictatorship’s systematic efforts that led to the disappearance of 30,000 people during the Dirty War. It’s only in the final half-hour that the investigation into the "death flights" comes into focus. This structure of the film aligns perfectly with my three visits to ESMA.

I am a person who is always in a rush to watch movies, so I usually leave as soon as the end credits start. I insisted on watching this movie to the end because the place where Zhou You and Ni Ni are swimming on the cover is so beautiful. I want to know where in Hubei it is? The possible answer given at the end seems to be the Qianjiang Diving Base, where Zhou You plays the terminally ill patient’s hometown in the countryside. In addition to the beautiful location and overhead shot of this scene, the movie is generally pretty good. The beginning and the end use two Faye Wong concerts where only the edges can be seen as a closed loop. The characters’ behavior is logically reasonable, and the story progresses smoothly. Zhou You’s image of a scalper and his state of maintaining dignity despite being terminally ill are convincing. I just personally feel that the two scenes in Chongqing are a bit redundant, one is a rotating empty shot outside the building, and the other is rushing to the Jiefangbei on New Year’s Eve.

Through a sci-fi McGuffin, creating a three-dimensional liar or foolish saint character seems to have become a common story choice for soft sci-fi themes in countries around the world in recent years. The public enthusiasm inspired by this TV host in this movie is a little unbelievable, but fortunately the director really let him go to the aliens in the end.

In the era of short videos and online communication, the Galician cyberbullying story is really nothing from the perspective of East Asian news. Of course, the theme and story time of the movie also focus on the collective fear and fear of taking responsibility of young people.

The advantage of staying in a single room at a airbnb during film festival is that you will have all kinds of amazing roommates. This time it was Inés Bortagaray, a Uruguayan female screenwriter of this Chilean film in official competition. Of course, because we both leave early and come back late, we didn't meet and chat until last night. Like most A-level films, even in the main competition, the film festival only covers the travel expenses of two people for the film, which is usually given to the director and producer. Inés's ticket was actually exchanged for travel points. This film is good, and it is another example of San Sebastian telling a simple story well this time. It can be said to be a female awakening version of Saltburn with a bit of awkward irony.

Stated with the beautiful scene in front of Peine del Viento (Wind Comb), a sculpture landmark of City San Sebastian. A young girl stood there told the story of its sculptor Eduardo Chillida, who had been coming here since he was a boy. Today his three sculptures anchored to the rocks, in permanent conversation with the sea and the wind, have become a distinguishing feature of his city and of the whole Basque coast. At dawn, the young girl asks herself about the sculptor and promises herself that she will go and find him, then more and more Basque scholars appeared to talk about their memory of Eduardo Chillida and his long term collaborator architect Luis Pena Ganchegui. Thanks to those two talents artists, today we can be accompany with a lot excellent sculpture in Basque Region

I watched too many movies and played too much, almost forgot about it after just one week. It seems that the son stole his mother's car and got into trouble, and both the mother and the son had an affair with the female swimming coach?

Abbas's old friend Amir was in charge of editing, which may have added a lot of charm to this script that seemed to be quite thin in terms of meaning and story. I just realized that after the Pingyao screening, the criticism was focused on the editing, but I think the editing is okay and even saves the story? Okay, my question is

The first day of a festival filled with both cinematic and culinary delights concluded with Querido Trópico, a co-production between Panama and Colombia. Set in simple locations—an elderly care home, a suburban mansion, and a cramped apartment—the film’s slow-paced rhythm brings the story together seamlessly. This measured pace suits the theme of aging and companionship. The expressions and actions of the foreign caregivers and the wealthy local elderly women appear cold and even unfeeling, yet within their mutually dependent relationships, a logical and deep emotional bond develops, one that hints at an outpouring of affection ready to overflow at any moment.

The night when Elon Musk pulled up the starlink, the gypsy from Alicante played and sang flamenco songs in search of his relative.

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