The Dissidents Critique

Two Ways Science Fiction Films Portray the Human Body Bodies are present in almost all films, but not all films are committed to representing them. Science fiction is often considered a genre that has the least to do with bodies, but there are at least two exceptions: Paul Verhoeven and David Cronen

VI. Cleo and Her Family Sometime during 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alejo Moguillansky and Luciana Acuña made a comedy, La edad media, in the confines of their home. Starring themselves and their eight-year-old daughter, Cleo, the film began as a documentary on the times of the lockdown, whe

los anuncios inmobiliarios de Villeneuve pueden dejarse de lado on Denis Villeneuve's Dune Denis Villeneuve, the creator of a real estate advertisement featuring a landform called Eracos, persuades us that this virtual land can (or has been) developed. Come on! A Hollywood real estate agent convince

THE WORLD OF EL PAMPERO CINE (2): Spies and Specimens IV. A Spy's Mission Both Historias extraordinarias and La Flor begin with a shot of a landscape and a shot of its filmmaker - in the first film, Mariano Llinás is one of the protagonists who is about to walk into a rabbit hole of murder and myste

Poor Things and its formal hypocrisy on Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, has garnered impressive box office success and four Oscar awards, including Best Leading Actress for Emma Stone and three other aw

Isabelle Huppert in a Foreign Country, for the Third Time We usually say that cinemas compress and preserve time; but sometimes, in some unexpected way, they serve as witnesses to its passage. I'm referring to those "series" where the story extends throughout many years, and the characters inevitabl

THE WORLD OF EL PAMPERO CINE (1): The Landscape of a Book This is the beginning of a three-part journey through the films by El Pampero Cine, a collective of Argentine filmmakers that has been working on the outskirt of the film industry since 2002. Within their dozens of works that spread between f

Ever since the American Film Institute announced the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards on January 23rd, naturally there is no shortage of fans of commercial blockbusters applauding for Oppenheimer and The Killers of the Flower Moon, and there is no shortage of cinephiles applauding Glazer and

The Zone of Interest is still an artistic consumption of the Holocaust As a mysterious project that has been anticipated for a decade, the core concept of The Zone of Interest ends up being quite simple and clear: within the confines of the frame, it paints a serene picture of a family's life over a

The Female Palme d'Or Winner's Dialectics between Fiction and Truth on Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet's latest film, Anatomy of a Fall, won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, making her the third female director ever to receive the honor. The film is a grip

Recently, there have been a number of major comic conventions held in South America, two of which were Argentina Comic Con in Buenos Aires and CCXP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As anime culture -- especially Japanese anime -- has increasingly entered the mainstream, the aesthetics of some anime works and g

Title: Why David Fincher's Professionalism isn’t appealing in Hollywood Anymore Sub Title: The Professionalism of a Detective or a Killer Early in the morning, a contract killer awakens in an abandoned office, proceeds through his morning routine, lays out a yoga mat, stretches his body, dons headph

Anagrams between Nature On Rodrigo Moreno's The Delinquents (2023) The plot is simple: In Buenos Aires, Morán (Daniel Elías), a worker at the bank, steals, from his workplace, over 650,000 U.S. dollars in cash - 25 years of future compensation - and vows never to work again. He finds an accomplice i

Horror films, as a widely popular movie genre, are becoming both more mainstream and market-driven. At the same time, some films are transcending the genre to become auteur cinema, with M. Night Shyamalan's works being a prime example. His latest film, Knock at the Cabin, based on Paul Tremblay’s ho

If the term Romanian New Wave holds any significance, it becomes nearly impossible to overlook one crucial aspect: a teleological exploration of reality- issues.

Hitchcock exploits the dream as a mysterious replica of reality, a riddle carefully filled with clues which the characters strive to decipher, but for what purpose? To provide an idealistic alibi for an outward crime, while remaining indifferent to the frustrations and traumas within.