Nothing catches fire in Valentina Maurel’s I Have Electric Dreams, but the atmosphere is so inflammable, the air so taut, everything could ignite at any moment. True to its title, this cumulatively harrowing tale of a 16-year-old girl and her estranged, anger-prone father feels like it’s been yanked out of an electric storm. Even the frames carry a kind of static, throbbing in-sync with parent and child as they crash into each other only to drift away and collide again, each confrontation more seismic than the others. To be watching Maurel’s feature debut is to bear witness to a self-destructive waltz; there are scenes of almost unbearable sadness and loneliness, but Dreams is no dirge, and all dread the film accrues only makes its closing catharsis so much more affecting.
The girl’s name is Eva (Daniela Marín Navarro); her father’s Martín (Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez). We...
The girl’s name is Eva (Daniela Marín Navarro); her father’s Martín (Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez). We...
- 11/25/2022
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
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