Film mexicain (2005).
Comédie dramatique.
Durée : 1h30mn.
Date de sortie : Prochainement
Avec Cirilo Recio, Laura Saldaña, Claudia Orozco...
Réalisé par Amat Escalante
Regarder des telenovelas sur le canapé ou faire l’amour sur la table de la cuisine : tel est le quotidien de Diego, fonctionnaire, et son épouse Blanca, employée dans un fast-food. Un jour débarque Karina, la fille que Diego a eue d’un premier mariage. L’homme doit alors faire face au besoin d’affection de sa fille et aux crises de jalousie de sa femme. Un événement extraordinaire le poussera à agir comme il ne l’avait encore jamais fait.
(L'avis exprimé par les rédacteurs de cette rubrique est indépendant du travail et des choix du Jury oecuménique.)
12 mai 2005
Sangre just stops. The end. Maybe, Diego, the central character, a middle-aged, very ordinary man, balding, with a cast in his eye, just has nowhere else to go.
First time writer and director traps his audience in the humdrum life of Diego and Blanca. With his almost permanently fixed camera, in long takes (sometimes very long -30 seconds for Blanca to trim her toenails), it is if we are caught in a Mexican reality TV program where very little happens. Activities run the range from intimate sex, through Diego eating his tacos and fried egg, to lying watching telenovellas (which actually sound more interesting than what we see of Diego and Blanca).
Of course, this is a portrait of unvaried, often banal lives which make us ask what life is all about. Diego goes a good deed for a woman whose son is abducted and Blanca angrily tosses a table at him. She apologises. Diego’s daughter asks can she live with him. He puts her up in a hotel. In the last 30 minutes, there are some complications with Diego’s daughter and his almost zombie-like manner of dealing with the crisis. And then he and the film just stop.
