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Verano azul (1981)
Big hit in Romania, too!
I'm here just to say that I watched the show as a child in communist Romania. With nothing to see on the state television, we used to watch the Bulgarian TV station (to the point that we could speak Bulgarian without ever seeing a textbook or a dictionary of Bulgarian language).
So for all the Spanish here who are intrigued about the success Verano Azul had in countries like Bulgaria or Poland: kids in Bucharest used to love this show, even it it was dubbed in Bulgarian, a language we didn't know! (Oh, and by dubbed, I mean a dull adult voice reading the lines like it was the weather forecast)
I didn't even know for sure where the action took place. Today decided to search for it, with a feeling that it might have been Spanish, and here it is! Quite a beautiful experience, to find a piece of the past that was less than a distant memory and more of a dream about my childhood!
Memotekid (2009)
Dance short film, black and white, heavy editing
I have seen the film during the Betting on Shorts Film Festival - a festival that basically is what its slogan says it isn't: an Eurovision of short films (Eurovision is a pop music European festival where the winner is chosen by the jurors from each country)! The audience from Bucharest, where I have seen it, was not in the least interested in this film (partly because the films it competed against were the type of joke-on-camera, low-tech, basic performances that make 90% of the video performances during these festivals, and they just wanted to have another easy laugh, maybe with a taste of political comment, transgression etc). Nevertheless, Memotekid won the competition, for good reason I think. Unlike its competitors, it is a very honest, well-thought, artistic attempt to bring something original, to provoke a certain genuine feeling.
A very interesting experiment with film and dance. Two female dancers perform in the minimalistic set of Feroe Islands, their dark figures against the whiteness of snow and sky. A bleak and intriguing feeling, enhanced by the soundtrack and the editing.
Definitely not for story lovers, but a visual experience for people interested in dance and, well... visual experience!
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Waaaaaay to long
Really disappointing this script - Gilliam was not necessarily the name that would come to mind when thinking of movies based almost entirely on image and special effects, but well... we all have our downs, i guess. The connection with the tales and the real Grimms is not only completely avoiding the truth - that would be okay IF any aesthetic reason would explain it - actually the whole script is nothing but a patchwork of circumstantial hints to the tales. Very little of the spirit of the tales is kept, and almost nothing of the historical truth about the authors. This movie is nothing but a poorly-written TV film extended to the limit, making use of the name of Grimm to sell a common ghost story.