Ingrid (2009)

Director:

Eduard Cortés

Writers:

Eduard Cortés (written by)
Marta Puig (co-writer)

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Eduard Farelo
Elena Serrano
Victòria Pagès
Jürgen Müller
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marc Barrachina	...	Himself (as Facto Delafé y Las Flores Azules)
José María Blanco
Oscar D'Aniello	...	Himself (as Facto Delafé y Las Flores Azules)
Lourdes Hernández	...	Herself (as Russian Red)
Edgar Manjarres	...	Houdini
Guille Milkyway	...	Himself (as La Casa Azul)
Helena Miquel	...	Herself (as Facto Delafé y Las Flores Azules)
Marta Morera
Mürfila	...	Herself
Nubla	...	Herself

Country:

Spain

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Televisió de Catalunya (TV3)

You'll never catch her (in any possible way)

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Must say I am a bit biased on this one as I know some of the people that appear on the screen, but anyway, I ll try to be balanced.

The movie premiered the other day in the Sitges international film festival (Spain). I watched it in the main screen, with a wonderful sound, large screen, the cast in the audience, etc.

The movie is weird, to say the least. The director, Eduard Cortes, spent a couple of years surfing social networks, mainly fotolog and myspace, in search for raw talent. Then he decided to make a movie clearly motivated by the web, and with most crew members taken from his incursions on the cyberworld. The idea sounds reasonable, but somehow someone forgot the script is an important part of a movie.

Its main character is played by professional actor, Eduard Farelo, and is one of the few people appearing on the screen I could relate to in some sense. After a divorce he meets the girl whose name entitles the movie, Ingrid, and quickly gets deeply bound to her unusual life, e.g. pain loving scenes,funny tattoos, strange parties with weirdos, etc.

Ingrid (played quite alright by Elena Serrano, specially if we consider it is the first time she has ever participated in a movie) is a girl who has a never clearly stated but traumatic past that somehow the movie tries to unveil little by little. Apparently she struggles to relieve her past psychological suffering by inflicting physical pain on her own body. On the other hand, her charm and love of life makes her the queen of her particular world.

I cannot recommend the movie vividly, mainly because half of the stuff in the script does not make any sense or is simply left unexplained, but at least I can say it may be worth watching for the music and some of the shots.

Both the music by Micka Luna (a self taught musician with an active myspace world) and the songs by the many bands that appear on the movie are worth the ticket (if the ticket costs less that 7 euros or so). At least I enjoyed watching the movie and listening to the music once I disconnected my brain from understanding or even mildly sharing the whereabouts of Ingrid.