The universe in which the protagonist lives is dark, frozen, without affection, without solidarity and is saturated with the gossip of the neighbors, who in the setting are just a group of silhouettes that are cut out in the immensity of the landscape and give their opinion about the actions of the young
Also facing possible eviction for his father’s debts, Hass must honor his posthumous wish to be buried in Missouri, so he travels with the remains but along the way, he meets a young man (Darren Houle), as helpless as she is.
It is a dry story, with almost no dialogue, at times overwhelming, which resorts to and in many cases abuses a precious proposal, with long shots and the color reduced almost to black and white to account for an imposed gravity, of little depth.
If “Runner” proudly exhibits its soulless proposal, “Girasoles Salvajes”, by Jaime Rosales is quite the opposite, with a story that without fuss or grandiloquence, demonstrates a deep understanding of the issues it addresses through the life of a marked woman in the best of cases due to the stupidity of men and in the worst, due to gender violence.
The Catalan director, who had already been part of the official competition with “Shot in the head” and the rest of his films (“Petra”, “Beautiful youth”; “Dream and silence”; “The solitude”) were presented in different sections of the contest, returns to San Sebastián with a tense and at the same time sensitive story, with an impressive Ana Castillo in the role of Julia, a young mother with two children who, in search of love, gets involved with the wrong men.
If Rosales’ view of history had to be summed up, it could be defined as a film that deals with the dreams, insecurities, mistakes and successes of a young woman in Spain today. Although of course, the negative aspects of that life would be infinitely less if instead of a young woman it was a man.
Without unnecessarily emphasizing any of the protagonist’s ailments but also without ceasing to accurately and accurately account for each of them, the film follows Ana with her two young children, getting involved with a psychopath (Oriol Pla), who hits her, an ex-husband (Quim Ávila) who is unable to assume his responsibility as a father and a third partner (Lluís Marqués), with whom he sees the possibility of building a relationship in the future.
Merciless with the male universe, with a staging that works on discomfort and permeates every moment of imminent danger, Rosales’s film is also moving and intelligent as it paints a complex portrait of a victim who makes mistakes, makes bad decisions but also He wants to have fun and have a good time.
In its apparent simplicity, “Wild Sunflowers” addresses numerous issues, but without a doubt the main one is a woman’s right to be happy.
Source: Ambito
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