daniel-361-630297 Reviews

Ashmina (2018)

Great Film

[10/10 · 4 March 2019]

In a Nepali paradise for paragliding fans a girl helps tourists in exchange for a couple of coins. At the heart of Ashmina, the girl who gives the title to this short film by Dekel Berenson, the desire arises to forge her own path. The problem is that she does not have the support of her family who only see her as a source of income. Berenson builds an intimate story that exploits the natural beauty of Pokhara and immerses her heroine in a small journey where the insignificant can become transcendent.

Skin (I) (2018)

Fantastic Film

[10/10 · 4 March 2019]

When I finished Skin I could not help remembering a phrase by Mario Puzo at the end of The Last Don that says: "Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin." And Guy Nattiv achieve with this work is to show us the cruelty of the world through the eyes of a child, a child who is loved by his parents and who has the appreciation of his neighbors and despite all this love he has living in the more brutal violence, learning from the example, absorbing the lessons that it would be better to avoid because the consequences can be harsh. Nattiv gets a stark story that shows that a nonsense act can lead to merciless punishment. Brilliant as a film, painful as a reflection of a world that is leading many to sin.

On the Border (2018)

a K-Dream

[9/10 · 4 March 2019]

There is a moment in On The Border where the boy and the girl share their desire to go South Korea. His purposes are different for her is only subtle, aesthetic, for him is life. Surprising the delicate care that Wei Shujun manages the story, showing with a laconic look and silently building the routine of this young man who yearns to leave his filthy everyday life and replace it with that world full of neon lights that promises Korea. A dream that determines his life, which conditions his way of relating to others and Shujun manages to convey the weight of this desire.

Bonboné (2017)

A thrilling bus ride.

[9/10 · 4 March 2019]

While I was watching Bonbone for the first time, I did it with disbelief, considering this love story between a Palestinian couple in which the man is being held in an Israeli prison exaggerated and somewhat elaborated. But the text that at the end of the trip tells us that everything we saw is inspired by real events was a slap in my cynical face and made grow this story built by Rakan Mayasi in which he turns a bus trip into a race against time and where the suspense gets goosebumps.