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Now released
Lost
Embrace / El abrazo partido
Comedy (2004)
Argentina, Spain
Director: Daniel Burman
Starring: Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg
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The
Sea Inside / Mar adentro |
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The Sea Inside / Mar adentro
Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film
Drama (2004)
Spain
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda |
Review: Winner
of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2004, The
Sea Inside is a life-affirming film about a man who wishes
to die. That may seem like a massive contradiction, but in the
hands of director Alejandro Amenábar (Open
Your Eyes, The
Others) and actor Javier Bardem (Before
Night Falls), this fact-based Spanish drama concerns the
final days of Ramón Sampedro, the quadriplegic poet who
waged a controversial campaign for his right to die. He was denied
this right for 30 years, and ultimately arranged for his own assisted
suicide, but this remarkable film--and Bardem's keenly intelligent
performance--examines the hotly-debated issue of assisted suicide
with admirable depth and humanity, just as Sampedro did until
his death in 1998. For Sampedro, death was preferable to severe
paralysis (he even refused to use a wheelchair), but the film
does not suggest a "disposable" attitude toward disability.
Instead, it's a thoughtful meditation on life and love as gifts
to be cherished, and a challenging drama that begs each viewer
to examine their own personal beliefs about what makes life worth
living. You may not agree with Sampedro and his ultimate denial
of life, but The
Sea Inside will urge you to ponder how you would react
under similar circumstances, and that makes it a profoundly meaningful
film.
Review by Jeff Shannon
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Bad
Education / La mala educación |
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Drama / Thriller (2004)
Spain
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez
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Review: Writer/director
Pedro Almodóvar's dark, sexy Hitchcock homage is his best
work since his Oscar-winning All
About My Mother, and deepened by a sun-dappled sadness.
Handsome, enigmatic Ángel (Gael García Bernal) arrives
at the Spanish movie offices of director Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez)
and happily proclaims that he's actually Enrique's long-lost school
chum Ignacio--an announcement that is both less than convincing
and more than it seems. A novice actor, Ángel pitches a
semi-autobiographical screenplay in which he's determined to star,
a revenge-laden reflection of the doomed love he and Enrique shared
as boys before a pedophile priest cruelly intervened. The script,
and the lost days it recalls, carefully unfurls into a series
of brooding movies-within-movies and memories-inside-memories,
which allow the sensual, multiple-role-playing Bernal to give
the performance of his young career--among other things, he makes
a stunningly convincing drag queen--and Almodóvar the opportunity
to movingly suggest that people will pay any price to ensure that
their stories are told.
Review by Steve Wiecking
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The
Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios de motocicleta |
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Drama / Adventure (2004)
USA / et al.
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna |
Review: The beauty
of the South American landscape and of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y
Tu Mama Tambien, Bad
Education) gives The
Motorcycle Diaries a charisma that is decidedly apolitical.
But this portrait of the young Che Guevara (later to become a
militant revolutionary) is half buddy-movie, half social commentary--and
while that may seem an unholy hybrid, under the guidance of Brazillian
director Walter Salles (Central
Station) the movie is quietly passionate. Guevara and
his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna, a lusty and engaging
actor) set off from Buenos Aires, hoping to circumnavigate the
continent on a leaky motorcycle. They end up travelling more by
foot, hitchhiking, and raft, but their experience of the land
and the people affects them profoundly. No movie could affect
an audience the same way, but The
Motorcycle Diaries gives a soulful glimpse of an awakening
social conscience, and that's worth experiencing.
Review by Bret Fetzer
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Chronicles
/ Crónicas |
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Crime / Drama / Thriller
(2004)
Mexico / Ecuador
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Starring: John Leguizamo, Leonor Watling, Damián Alcázar |
Review: In twisty
thriller Crónicas, John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge)
finally lands a lead role worthy of his talent. The Columbian-born
actor is Manolo Bonilla, an ambitious Miami-based reporter for
a Spanish-language news outlet. When a serial killer devastates
a small town in Ecuador, he and his crew, Marisa (Leonor Watling,
Talk to Her) and Iván (José María
Yazpik, Innocent Voices), fly down to cover the story.
Shortly after their arrival, Bonilla saves the life of shifty-looking
salesman Vinicio Cepeda (Damián Alcázar). His intentions
aren't as honorable as they seem. Cepeda claims to have information
regarding the "Monster of Babahoyo" and Bonilla will
do anything to keep him talking. Soon his star begins to rise
as Cepeda provides him with more and more ratings-grabbing details.
Then Bonilla discovers something even the authorities don't know
about--another body. His decision to follow the lead on his own
could make his career...or completely destroy it. Worse yet, another
child may lose his life if Bonilla fails. Featuring Alfred Molina
(Frida) as Marisa's TV host husband (seen only via monitor). Written
and directed by Sebastián Cordero and produced by Guillermo
del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, Crónicas was
nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Review by Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Maria
Full of Grace / Maria, llena eres de gracia |
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Drama / Thriller (2004)
USA / Columbia
Director: Joshua Marston
Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez |
Review: When a
movie can blend passionate social concern with good old-fashioned
suspense, it must be doing something right. Maria
Full of Grace scores high on both counts. Maria is a Colombian
teenager who, for a large paycheck, agrees to be a mule for drug-runners:
she has to swallow dozens of thumb-sized capsules of heroin and
smuggle them into New York. This debilitating process is painstakingly
described, and of course not everything goes as planned when Maria
and her fellow mules land in America. Director Joshua Marston
is working on a low budget, which explains the film's narrow,
single-minded focus--but this may be a strength, not a weakness.
The trump card is the lead performance of Catalina Sandrino Moreno,
who won awards at the Seattle and Newport Film Festivals. Her
empathetic face carries us along on Maria's journey, and humanizes
a problem that is too easily relegated to a headline.
Review by Robert Horton
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