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A unique film, unlike any other this viewer has seen. The entire story is told with black and white still photographs and voice-over dialog. This was captivating as it told the story of a young, horny, fourteen year-old Mexican boy and the college-age Gringa that he becomes infatuated with over the course of a few months. The relationship that develops remains platonic, but only because neither truly knows what the other is thinking. At times it felt like a commentary on the cultural divide between two people from different backgrounds, and at other times it felt more like a straightforward coming of age tale. But it always kept the viewer's interest.
Rated 4.5/5 Stars •
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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Solo por las crÃticas le daré una segunda oportunidad.
Por lo pronto se queda con 1 estrella.
Ya la vi completa y se queda con 1 estrella. Para usar el mismo lenguaje que en la pelÃcula.
"No mames, esta de guuuueeva."
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/24/23
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Feito a partir de cerca de 5000 fotografias que o diretor Jonás Cuarón tirou durante um ano da sua vida. Bastante interessante o estilo do filme.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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The second the narration starts, you just completely forget you are watching still photographs for 70+ minutes. The story is so extremely simple, but executed with such lovely, funny, sweet and touching characters that you can't help but fall in love; it was a will-they-or-won't-they anxiety I was very happy to be going through. I can't describe the movie anything better than pure enjoyment all the way through.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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Olvidé que sólo estaba viendo fotos fijas. Y si no te sucede, seguro te ocurrirá conforme avanzas en la cinta. Me parece un experimento muy interesante para Jonás, quien trae el cine en las venas y nos presenta una ficción a partir de un hecho real, algo que seguro sucedió en su familia. Es muy valiente contar una historia tan íntima porque, por más que nos dijera que la historia es ficción, es evidente que dejó plasmar un momento en la vida de su familia. La forma en la que el color iba evolucionando nos habla justamente de las estaciones por las que estaba pasando y cómo, en sí, fue floreciendo dentro de Diego una inquietud naturalmente sexual y sociológicamente correcto para con Molly, una completa extraña por quien pierde la cabeza. Extraña pero grata la forma en que me sentí cautivado por la cinta, la dirección, que en este caso sólo es de la voz, me parece tan correcta y bien producida que nos habla de un futuro prometedor, tanto como el de su padre, el gran Alfonso Cuarón.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/20/23
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I thought the whole experimental nature of this movie (made entirely out of still photographs and voice-over dialogue) was going to be boring and uninteresting after the first 10 minutes or so, and I was scared because it seemed like a very cool idea to be wasted. The best thing, by far, from this beautiful film is the fact that it surprised the hell out of me by being absolutely entertaining and light, easy to digest and enjoy, considering you're watching, in lack of a better word, a slide show. But the great thing about it is that it isn't <I>just</I> a slideshow: it's a breathtaking work of editing to put everything together in a logic, easy-going way and then decide how many seconds/frames we're going to watch each picture, some of them more time and some of them very quickly, in order to accomplish a great rhythm that many <I>conventional</I> movies don't have! After a while, you truly forget you're watching only still photos and the dialogue is so extraordinary, it takes you by the hand into a cute first-love story between a horny teenager and a naive, innocent and slightly dumb American girl. They don't understand each other beyond language barriers: they simply don't speak the same <I>"language"</I> when it comes to love and relationships, specially all the flirting part which is awkward to the point of extreme hilarity and uncomfortable because we've all been there. The subtitles work beautifully by translating <I>everything</I> that is heard, Spanish and English, into the opposite language, a nice detail that may be unimportant to some but it is, in fact, a way to put everything together and forget about the language for 78 minutes: all the characters have serious communication and understanding issues, despite their language being the same or different and Jonás Cuarón succeeds at telling us that language is not the ultimate communication obstacle behind relationships.
It blows your mind how simple/light, yet beautiful, this film can be, despite its apparently complicated nature. Give it a try, it's worth every single minute.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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