Un buen día

Movies about losers usually don't get the recognition they deserve; take for example Kaurismaki's 'La vie de bohème', maybe his best movie, or Ettore Scola's 'Romanze di un giovane povero', people don't want to be reminded about the losers, the ones that finish at second place or worse, and "A good day" is not an exception to this rule. If someone had tried consciously to make a movie that is a mixture of Richard Linklater and Edward Wood styles, she would never have achieved such an outstanding result. Right when the movie starts you begin to notice some bold stylist choices (background actors in the foreground, abrupt little spatial-temporal cuts in the editing, dialog completely out of a soap opera) , and it goes on and on relentlessly until the very end. First you dismiss the movie for its evident lack of Qualité, then you start to mock it as campy, hilariously quoting its dialog or joking on the plot twist, but after that you might realize that this movie has passion on it and is the work of somebody with a heart; that the two characters (a charming bohemian loser and a grown up spoiled brat) probably would talk like that in real life. The force of nature is refreshingly powerful in this movie. After sunrise and before sunset, there's a good day.

* I want to thanks to Magrio and S. Ayala for giving this movie the appreciation it deserves.