For those who still prefer online cinema, there are still very valuable offers:
FAMILY TIES
In the lowest section of the labor chain that has been woven like a web around the App, Ken Loach puts his eye on Family ties.
The British filmmaker places the viewer in the middle of a family group struggling to survive, at the juncture of the 2008 financial crisis.
Ricky (Kris Hitchen) has not managed to stay stable in any job. His wife, Abby (Debbie Honeywood) is a caregiver in a nursing home. They are a very close couple and have a good relationship with their teenage children.
The solution they find: sell Abby’s little car and give the money as part of payment to buy a van.
Thus, Ricky becomes a delivery man for a delivery company, which leaves him halfway between an employee and a self-employed worker.
Strictly speaking, this means the worst part of both: the contract only operates to demand certain responsibilities, but it does not protect you from excessive hours or against accidents or emergencies.
Nor does it provide the minimum conditions for any job, such as time or place to go to the bathroom.
Spurred on by paying what he owes, the man resists whatever comes.
In that naturalistic style typical of Loach – heir to British social realism cinema – the story exposes Ricky’s daily life in a crescendo that starts from an approachable routine until it reaches shocking and even violent moments.
Added to this is the couple’s difficulty in assuming their roles as parents: going to appointments at their children’s school; control the rebellious acts of the eldest of them and the underhanded way of attracting the attention of the minor.
Ken Loach (who is already 85 years old) insists on his critical gaze.
If in Yo, Daniel Blake (2016), his previous award-winning film, an older man crashed into the wall of an indolent bureaucracy, in Family ties exposes a subject to the B’s side of this burgeoning new job market. The one that arises under the explosive growth of online applications that, by their very nature, fly under the radar of legal systems, precisely because of this oblique relationship between company and worker-collaborators.
The story is enveloping and close, which makes the viewer experience anguish with the protagonists, which is balanced by certain relaxed moments.
Although humor is scarce, yes, it installs the same act of faith: if society is cold and selfish, there is solidarity between close groups, in this case, a warm and loving family.
Data:
Ken Loach works again with Paul Laverty on the script, the same one with whom he has doubled in several of his most relevant films, including the aforementioned Yo, Daniel Blake
FAMILY TIES
(Sorry we missed you)
Director: Ken Loach
Guion: Paul Laverty
Music: George Fenton
Photography: Robbie Ryan
Reparto: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Nikki Marshall, Harriet Ghost, Linda E Greenwood.
United Kingdom, 2019.
Duration: 101 minutes.
(In Cinemark.cl)
SUMMER BIRDS
Inspired by real events that occurred in the region of La Guajira (extreme north of Colombia), between the 1960s and 1980s, it has the Wayúu, the largest indigenous people in that country, at the center.
Among them, the protagonists, the incombustible matriarch, Ursula, her son-in-law Rapayet and her family.
Summer Birds It is a story of gangsters, those that we usually see in films of Italian-American masters, only that it is located in the middle of another worldview and a scenario where nature is imposed.
This is the prehistory of drug trafficking. And it is, at the same time, a human tragedy so brilliantly articulated that it gives the viewer no respite.
The award-winning and extraordinary film by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego is not only ecstatic in its images and in the accurate use of cinematographic language, but in how a tense thriller in which greed and everything that is space has been opening up in the human condition since time immemorial.
If your previous movie, The Embrace of the Serpent, was closer to an anthropological document, in Summer Birds they build a story that is universal at its core, only starring men and women who do not abandon their language, their traditions, their rites, or their ancestral codes.
And in fact, the most serious thing occurs when that line is crossed, that which is the soul of the Wayúu is betrayed and that has been gradually blurred.
A gem of a movie. Intense, beautiful and unforgettable.
BYESUMMER JAROS
Direction: Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego
Guion: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde
Music: Leonardo Heiblum
Photography: David Gallego
Cast: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez.
Colombia, 2018.
Duration: 125 min.
(In Arcadiafilms.cl).
Eye: In its Fina Selección Latina, arcadiafilms.cl also includes the premiere of Winter (Argentina), a film starring Alejandro Sieveking; Magallanes (Peru) and The Wild Region (Mexico).
SERIES TO CATCH UP WITH
There are two very good series that announced new seasons. So, it’s time to catch up or if you saw them, jog your memory.
SEX EDUCATION
With the magnetic Gillian Anderson in one of the main roles, this British series burst into 2019 as one of the most original of recent times. A year later the second season was released and the third arrives on September 17.
Putting together a comedy whose basic element is sex and which is fun, saucy, as well as intelligent and sharp is not often achieved.
Between comic situations, touches of extravagance and deliriously funny characters, in Sex Education In the background there is an accurate look at such a key and unavoidable issue in human beings as sexual life, even more so if we are talking about teenagers trying to survive among themselves in the last years of school.
The series very astutely approaches the issue of always complex adult-adolescent relationships: the role of the characters (sex therapist, teachers) and the plot give space for this problem to be verbalized with professional precision, which, in turn, generates quite comical situations, at certain times.
Gillian Anderson is the sex therapist Jean Milburn: an exquisite character, a mix of a very feminine, self-sufficient woman, with soft ways and a little nympho; relaxed limiting with absent-mindedness and suddenly alert mother; innocent and kind; smart and ready.
Asa Butterfield (The boy with the striped pajamas) is Otis, the son of Jean, a boy who looks candid and scary, adorable and trustworthy.
The nerd of the class, at 16 Otis is smarter and wiser than any of his peers. He just lives in terror at the thought that one of them will come to his beautiful house on the hill surrounded by forests, where mom-sex therapist has everything decorated with not subtle phallic symbols.
The secondary roles are not wasted: the close friend of Otis, Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), charming, optimistic with or without reason; the beautiful and stormy Maeve (Emma Mackey, a slightly younger Margot Robbie), key character; Aimee, the silly rich girl; and several quite freakies beings that end up drawing the singular style of the series. Each of them will have surprising twists.
Let’s see what happens in Moordale now.
SEX EDUCATION
Direction: Laurie Nunn (creator), Kate Herron, Ben Taylor, Alice Seabright, Sophie Goodhart
Guion: Bisha K. Ali, Sophie Goodhart, Laura Hunter, Laura Neal, Laurie Nunn, Freddy Syborn, Mawaan Rizwan
Reparto: Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Gillian Anderson, Chaneil Kular, Alistair Petrie, Connor Swindells, Cerys Watkins, Kedar Williams-Stirling.
United Kingdom, 2019, 2020, 2021.
AWARDS
2020 BAFTA TV Awards: Best Leading Actress TV – Comedy (Wood).
2019: BAFTA TV Awards: 3 nominations, including Best Lead Actor in a Comedy (Ncuti Gatwa)
2 seasons available.
T3: premiere, September 17.
(And Netflix).
THE MORNING SHOW
Apple TV + came out to fight the streaming battle with a strong letter: The Mornign Show , an addictive, high-pitched, frenetic-paced series.
TV host Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) finds out just hours before going on the air that her setmate, Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell), has been fired after being reported for sexual harassment, in the middle of the explosion of #MeToo (the character is inspired by TV host Matt Lauer).
In parallel, and dealing with executives and producers, Alex will meet a confrontational and fearless journalist, Bradley Jackson (Reese Whiterspoon).
These strong and determined women, with different personalities, take this dynamic and well-produced series ahead of them, with many very attractive supporting characters, which does not give the viewer respite.
The Morning Show It is a very vivid staging of the back room of a morning that millions of people see: stars rising at 3 in the morning in order to maintain their position of power; the ephemeral loyalties; anything goes to survive in the fight for the rating.
THE MORNING SHOW
Dirección: Jay Carson (Creador), Mimi Leder, David Frankel, Lynn Shelton, Roxann Dawson, Tucker Gates
Guion: Kerry Ehrin, Brian Stelter. Libro: Brian Stelter
Reparto: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Nestor Carbonell, Mark Duplass, entre otros.
USA First season available, released in 2019.
Duration of each episode: 60 min.
Second season premiere: September 17, 2021.
AWARDS
2020: Emmy: Best Supporting Actor (Billy Crudup).
2019: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Drama Series and Actress (Aniston, Witherspoon). Critics Choice Awards: Best Supporting Actor in a Drama (Crudup). Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Best Actress in a Drama (Aniston).
(In Apple TV +)
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