In the Gaumont “Quinography” is exhibited, beautiful portrait of the great humorist. Argentina “Chinese Shadows” is a good satire of influencers, and the Uruguayan “my father’s portrait” an emotional family history
Two Rioplatense films appear this week on the billboard. And a sensitive documentary is projected in the Gaumont: “Quinography”of Mariano Donoso and Federico Cardonewhose last exhibition will take place on Tuesday 30, just on the fifth anniversary of goodbye to Joaquín washingaka Cinchona.
Life, talent, humorism, philosophy, social criticism, tenderness and sadness meet in this work, as their friends and relatives bring to light photos, jokes and memories. To highlight, the record of one last, intimate interview in his native Mendoza, where he went to spend his last days, the participation of the exceptional editor and friend Daniel Divinskythat also left, and, marking the tone of the final chapter, a town band slowly through the streets of Mijas, there in Andalusia.
As for the other films, it surprises, lengthens and luckily the original has a good auction “Chinese shadows”of Sebaztian Baza multifaceted artist and producer that here takes advantage of the artificial world of networks. For that he uses his own weapons, that is, an alleged half -haired influencer talking about herself in the top of frivolity (or frebol city, feeds the neologism), with short shots of varied tone and comments of the alleged followers to the side of the screen, all in vertical format and almost everything in selfie mode. French poster for the actress Candela del Pozzothat graciously exceeds the challenge.
Every so often, the author allows some licenses, putting scenes in plane-continuous, and inserting records made by another character, music for each occasion and a quite uncomfortable suspense part. A few minutes less would have helped, but the false final with crazy credits followed by the end and true credits is very good. There include the data of that lies influencer, data such as “Followers 1012, real friends 1, loves in networks 14, real loves 0, photos in the Gym 215, real training 2”, and so on.
On the contrary, “My father’s portrait”of Juan Ignacio Fernández HoppeIt is a very austere, calm job, that avoids any sentimentality, even if it is talking about a loss and a doubt that for anyone can be distressing. The author was just eight years old when his father was found dead on a beach in Salinas, Canelones department. Man liked to stay there, to contemplate the night. If he suffered a cardiac arrest, if he passed the dose of anxiolytics he took and that’s why he fell asleep and grabbed the tide, it is not known. Conscious overdose, maybe?
That was in 1990. The large son seeks to understand what would happen through the father’s head, a man dedicated to music therapy well remembered by some colleague and some student, and also dedicated to experimental music, with oddities to which he sometimes puts striking titles, as “That guy with a cure face” either “To me, I’m dead”done in 1972. It did not transcend this, perhaps he felt a failed, to top it up the marriage failed.
In front of the camera some relatives happen, especially an old aunt waiting for this film to claim its late brother, and some countrymen of Canelones with that typical tune that prevents them from taking them completely seriously. One of them recites the milonga of Argentino Luna “When you shut up for love”. Another remembers his own father, with flowers and a mate in front of his portrait. Fernández Hoppe Fill a whole library, without flowers but with drawings, letters, scores, photos and, above and before everything else, frog legs. That silent humor, so Uruguayan, who remembers a bit to Felisberto Hernándezcloses with a melancholic, purely instrumental version of the “Ballad for a madman” In charge of the aunt. Good portrait, or rather a good portrait sketch, because this man will never finish knowing his father.
“Chinese shadows” (Argentina, 2025), Dir.: Sebastián Baz; Int.: Candela del Zotto, Carlos Benincasa, Pablo Alarcón, Iara Ciccone, Sergio D’Angelo.
“The portrait of my father” (Uruguay, 2024); Dir.: Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe; documentary.
Source: Ambito
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