Sujo
The killing of a Mexican cartel boss puts his 4-year-old son in danger in a powerful, often mythic evocation of life lived on the edge of death, Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s engrossing drama ‘Sujo’.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 24, 2024 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2025, San Sebastian 2024 |
The killing of a Mexican cartel boss puts his 4-year-old son in danger in a powerful, often mythic evocation of life lived on the edge of death, Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s engrossing drama ‘Sujo’.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 24, 2024 | Festivals, Cine Verdict, Featured, San Sebastian 2024 |
Cuando la despensa está vacía, una familia de clase media en un país latinoamericano sin nombre, primero pasa hambre y luego se vuelve salvaje en ‘Zafari’. La espeluznante fábula distópica de Mariana Rondón hará que los espectadores no quieran cenar.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 24, 2024 | San Sebastian 2024, Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals |
Un ensayo imaginativo y fascinante sobre el feminismo y la maternidad, ‘La virgen roja’ de Paula Ortiz presenta a una inolvidable Najwa Nimri como una madre infernal y dominante que ve a su brillante hija de 16 años como una escultura que ha creado para cambiar el mundo en la España de los años 30.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 23, 2024 | Festivals, Cine Verdict, San Sebastian 2024 |
When the cupboard is bare, a middle-class family in an unnamed Latin American country first goes hungry and then feral in ‘Zafari’, Mariana Rondon’s chilling dystopian fable that will put audiences off their dinner.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 22, 2024 | Spotlight, Cine Verdict, Festivals, San Sebastian 2024 |
An imaginatively engrossing essay on feminism and motherhood, Paula Ortiz’s taken-from-history ‘The Red Virgin’ features an unforgettable Najwa Nimri as a stage mother out of hell, who sees her brilliant 16-year-old daughter as a sculpture she has created to change the world in 1930’s Spain.
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