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The innocence contrast with the racism and homophobia in “Pelo Malo”
By Jenny Alvarez
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From the Director, screenwriter, visual artist Mariana Rondón was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela “Pelo Malo” is one of her master piece that comes with Junior who is a nine-year-old boy who has stubbornly curly hair, or “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer with long, ironed hair. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta, a young, unemployed widow.
Junior, Marta, and his baby brother live in a large multi-family building. Overwhelmed by what it takes to survive in the chaotic city of Caracas, Marta finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior’s fixation with his looks. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him. His paternal grandmother, a witness to this rejection, asks Marta to give her the boy so that he can look after her. Marta refuses and tries to correct her son’s obsession by “setting an example,” a cruel moment which was meant to be a lesson. Junior finds himself as imaginative and resilient mind-boy and his drama is really realistic with children like him. The relationships among adults are the toughest, but is more tense and bitter movements with his mother, in part of his grandmother to the self-discovery of dancing alone – to watching him mess with his hair we see a child try to live while his mother only survives. Is something that contrast with the formidable world they are planted in. Especially when Junior sings to with his grandma a late-’60s Venezuelan rock ‘n’ roll song and as a specter you can see the real social drama that lives this boy for the complex and confusing feelings against the raw background of Venezuela.
Robert Downey Jr. has been working pretty hard for Iron Man
By GalaTView Staff
Most of the times Marvel Studios hire people who actually know and like, preferably love, the source material. Downey wanted to play Stark for a long time. However his age and physical appearance are factors that influence in order to get paid decent money and he definitely did a great job but now as Tony Stark/Iron Man just exploded out and became the pop culture phenomenon but for how long will he have this role?
Tasting Menu has all the love ingredients
By Jenny Alvarez
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Directed by Roger Gual (who co-wrote and co-directed SMOKING ROOM) from a script by Gual and Javier Calvo. The film stars Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Timothy Gibbs, Marta Torné, Vicenta N’Dongo, Andrew Tarbet, Andrea Ros, Togo Igawa and Akihiko Serikawa. An Irish/Spanish co-production, Tasting Menu like all great ensemble dramedies centered on culinary delights, is a crowd-pleasing mishmash of relationships, feuds and broken dreams that are mended through the simple act of “breaking bread” and the universal appreciation of great food. According to some investigations this movie is based on the famed Catalonia elBulli restaurant, once run by chef Ferran Adrià. Various and assorted characters come to experience the last dinner being served at an illustrious and critically acclaimed seaside restaurant run by Chef Mar’s (Vicenta N’Dongo) and her partner Max (Andrew Tarbet). This film takes place on the last night of “the world’s best restaurant,” which is closing, but not before serving a final elaborate meal to a group of guests that includes a couple (Claudia Bassols and Jan Cornet) who booked a reservation a year in advance and who in the time since have split up. The script makes its thudding metaphorical point that sipping cocktails when someone’s drowning is simply not good especially for some of the characters whose indulgences have been not only culinary even emotional in which the food is fetishist’s delight and the night into this restaurant.
Brad “perfection” Pitt will be a Commander in “The Operators”
By GalaTView Staff
Brad Pitt is a class of actor who receives two Oscars–one for their chosen discipline and the other for a behind the scenes effort. Then this is the case with David Michod, the Australian director of the bristling, Oscar-nominated crime drama “Animal Kingdom,” will write and direct a newest project called “The Operators.” The film will be based on Michael Hastings’ bestselling book about McChrystal, a commander in the Afghanistan War.
“Hank and Asha” a relationship through the lens
By Jenny Alvarez
James E. Duff and Mahira Kakkar (Asha) and Andrew Pastides (Hank), both are part of a romantic comedy, an Indian woman studying in Prague and a young New York filmmaker begin an unconventional romance through video letters – two strangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world.
Asha, born and raised in India, is studying abroad in Prague for a year. She longs for deeper connections with people, at a time in her life when everything is about to change. Hank, a filmmaker and lonely new transplant to New York City, is still reeling from a romantic breakup, and facing increasing pressure from his parents to return to North Carolina to rescue the failing family business.
When Asha sees Hank’s documentary at a film festival, she feels inspired to send him a video message. Intrigued, Hank responds in kind. Their friendship develops through an unconventional video correspondence, and as their relationship intensifies, they must decide whether or not to meet face to face.
“Hank and Asha” unfolds through the video letters they record and send to each other – a modern love story about two people searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. It’s about isolation, identity, and the irresistible appeal of entertaining life’s what-ifs. Hank and Asha fail to meaningfully engage us for their complexity as a virtual couple. Their cameras are faithful witnesses of their attraction, a challenging basis for visual storytelling. Although together show us the best modern love story and cultural differences and the power imbalances of our modern society makes a story with a sad end between like-minded souls.
A strong sisterhood in “Perfect Sisters”
Review and photo of Georgie Henley and Stanley M. Brooks by Jenny Alvarez
A pair of abused and neglected teenage girls almost get away with murder in Perfect Sisters, a riveting true-crime thriller based on the notorious “Bathtub Girls” case. Sisters Sandra and Beth (Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley) early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other. But when their addict mother Linda (Mira Sorvinolearned) makes plans to move the girls in with her lecherous and abusive lover, the girls’ situation becomes unbearable. Perfect Sisters is a harrowing and heartbreaking look at the teen subculture that nurtured the girls’ murderous fantasies and covered up for them after they committed an unthinkable crime in an effort to create a normal life for themselves.
The tone and lighting changes mirror the sisters’ relationship with their mother. When Linda seems hopeful about the future, then the sisters are upbeat. Is a cheerful ambience, the colors are bright. After Linda begins dating Bowman, quits her job, and descends into alcoholic bouts, the sisters become depressed. This film is certainly unique and heart breaking engaging and some scenes are full of drama and desperation. Both girls are have fantasies and covered up for them after they committed an unthinkable crime in an effort to create a normal life for themselves and as a spectator this girls are victims of a cruel destiny full of abuse, violence outbursts, and insidious suggestion from their mother’s lover. The final plot for all the teens involved decide on – to drown Linda in a bathtub for four minutes after Beth drugs her for hours on pills and alcohol – is so fantastical that rich and popular Ashley can’t believe this isn’t a game of make-believe. Definitely, is a real story and show how it fits the plot, if tastefully done with wisdom, maturity, and understanding of a dramatic case of two young murders. In a relaxing interview Georgie Henley said to GalaTView: “I tried to do something full of color and emotions is going through my role so she had to face some struggling with her challenges in what kind of route to take immersion in her people that she supposes to love and huge with love and it was interesting and complex to play.”
Stanley M. Brooks: “I read the book and originally was making for TV and we kept doing address the written part and this story wasn’t for TV for the topics such as teen alcoholic, teen drugs, the language and kids don’t talk anymore each other so I kept that part of the story but as a Producer I have to make an interesting movie specially with their mother and lover totally violent and nobody ends as they have to end so to me the final was the greatest part when all had sympathy in each part of the characters.”
Only Lovers Left Alive is no part of another vampire mythology
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Only Lovers Left Alive is a romance drama vampire film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hurt. Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover.
Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. The effect of throwing human mortality into stark relief, provide some of the weirdest moments for those in the know.
This film has wonderful production design, music cuts and photography despite of some scenes were a little bit longer that it seems, the plot is consistent and well structured as well. It has black humor especially when Adam spits, “zombie central” sarcasm of people from Hollywood. This movie will we open in Los Angeles on April 11th, 2014.
The New Spider Man movie will come
By GalaTView Staff
Sony hired the writer and director of “The Cabin in the Woods” to write a script about the villains in Spidey’s world and Drew Goddard will be in charge of the next Spider Man (Sinester Six) a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker so this movie will be a good reason to keep seeing summer blockbusters on a big screen in 2016.
A especial day At Middleton in DVD
By Jenny Alvarez
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Academy Award® nominees Andy Garcia (Ocean’s 11, City Island) and Vera Farmiga (A&E’s “Bates Motel”, Up in the Air) star as straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers who meet on their children’s campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever. Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”), Spencer Lofranco (Jamesy Boy), Peter Riegert (“Dads”), and Tom Skerritt (“Picket Fences”) also star in this story about what can happen on your first day of college.
Definitely this movie has a good eye for visual composition. Both characters make the fictive Middleton in a very pleasant place in which timelessness of youth is a great element in this story. George and Edith, together are perfectly counterbalanced with humor and heart, with good feelings and celebrate all the different life stages full of hope and new phases. This incredible DVD has special features as an audio commentary with Writer/Director Adam Rodgers, Writer/Producer Glenn German and Producer/Actor Andy Garcia in English subtitles for the Deaf & Hearing impaired and Spanish.
