Change Your Image
Qualanqui
Reviews
Amores perros (2000)
UN CLáSICO
This is destined to become a movie classic. Weather you are Mexican or not, this movie will grab you from the bal... neck and throw you to your seat because you'll see your self in it!
Fast paced... aggressive... and profoundly moving.
Writing: A great sequence of stories that tell a side of humanity that we are all to hypocrit to admit. AL OF US.
Directing: In the tradition of movies like "Pulp Fiction" and "Run Lola Run", it is a movie that takes the subject of entangled stories one step further. Inteligent, daring, on-edge, go the distance and let the audience judge the person in the screen if they dare, for let he who bares no guilt, throw the first stone.
Story: It just happens. Some one in the story IS you. No one knows when or who, the who is not important, until you know why... if you ever do...
Acting: ALL OF THEM live up to the challenge. This is the true portrait of Mexican talent and craft. It is about time a Mexican production displays and pushes the creativity and expression of all the involved parties.
Bottom line: A MUST. It WILL become a classic. It IS timeless since human enfatuation has no time boundaries, and the apartment, car or merchandise you use or loose is of no importance, it's what it means to you that counts.
The Green Mile (1999)
A simple and wonderful portrait of the human being.
A movie filled with surprises. You'll never guess what's next!
Wonderful photography, great pace in the director's part. It's long, yet does not feel slow or tiresome.
The acting is G R E A T on behalf of everyone involved in it.
Tom Hanks expresses all of his emotions wondefuly.
David Morse is always able to show what anger, patience and impartiality really is.
But the man who MAKES the picture worth watching is with out a doubt Michael Clarke Duncan. A true Gentle Giant.
I dunno where King gets this stories, or the inspiration for them, but in the two movies I've seen about something to do with jail, King always delivers this feeling of identification with the carracter... you hurt with him, you want to fight for him... you wish he would stand up for himself yet... THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!!
Sometimes the best stand up is just stepping aside as John Coffey did.
He could see and feel into a man's heart, making all of us remember that if you can see into someone's heart, you'll never be deceived sense there's no one can hide what's in their heart.
Lola rennt (1998)
A marvelous and imaginative piece of work!!
SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
I've never seen so much action in a ten minute situation! A marvelous, fast paced, exhausting, action filled piece of work that will knock you off the edge of your seat only to find that your socks are missing!!!
A film that brilliantly brought together creativity, writing, (rave and techno) music, acting, and directing in a breath taking clock work, compared only to, but making Pulp Fiction eat Lola's dust.
From the first part of the movie, you can tell that Tom Tykwer saw the entire movie in his head
nap shot by nap shot
scene by scene
sound by sound
even before he ever thought of putting it to paper.
Yes, it's German with subtitles
but who cares!!!
Watch it at least three ours after you've eaten, otherwise, your digestion will make you throw up because of the exercise! SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
SEE IT!!!
EDtv (1999)
Nice, fun and serious poke on the eye of our morbid minds...
The usual Ron Howard work: Tidy, clear, and light, but present and worthy to turn and look at.
Unfortunately, Jim Carey made a movie before this one with a "light view" of the same nature. If we took our minds to a moment in which "The Truman Show" did not exist, and we saw this movie, we would probably say it was a lot better than we felt on the beginning about it.
It's a fun movie, that should have came out at the same time as "the show" so we the movie-goers had a choice.
Enjoy the movie, it's better than "the truman show"... or at least the serious part of it.
American History X (1998)
It's not easy to find a movie that pins a hard finger on society's most painful wound: what we NOT teach our young ones.
It's not easy to count the number of American Hollywood movies that take that step between entertainment and social standing... Tony Kaye, as we say down here in México... put on his pants and wore them!
The camera work is excellent, with a well balanced, well calibrated cinematography, and a no less POWERFUL directing. Going from one time frame to another is not easy even for someone that is telling the story as they remember it
little alone for a director that is also the camera operator and cinematographer... MASTER'S WORK TONY!
The screenplay is great, keeping a wonderful pace all over the film, not just telling the story, but really driving the watcher to it's most profound feeling of... what ever the moment.
Once again, Ed Norton gave a performance unparalleled, in a role that was probably conceived for a mind and talent sucha s Nortons. Wow!
As entertainment, is a powerful rollercoaster that either you, nor your younger bros' ands sis' should see before bedtime if you don't have an open mind about the implications of what you see in the film.
I was at the edge of the couch for minutes that seemed to have more than 60secs. Not only that, it happened more that twice.
The most powerful scene of the movie IS NOT of violence or sex, it's not even spoken, it's just a picture... it will come to you.
Kaye, McKenna and Norton made me think about my teenage kids, about the way they think, about the friends they have, about the advice I give them in an average breakfast before school, about the school they're inn and the kids that attend to it...
It's not easy to find in today's movie business a movie that compromises, points and pins a hard finger on today's society's most painful wound: what we NOT teach our young ones.
La otra conquista (1998)
A work that makes you proud of being Mexican.
This is a dense and obscure movie of great technical and artistic quality. The screenplay is beautifully written and the cinematography is like those of the greatest.
The historical facts are kept well in balance with the plot, making it a great directing accomplishment well deserving of respect and following for it's director.
The music is very much like that heard in the ceremonial rituals of Tenochtitlán, co-written and performed by the only musician capable of capturing that Aztec mythical sound: Jorge Reyes.
The most beautiful thing about this film, is the fact that of it's 120min, 60 are fully spoken in NAHUATL, a language almost dead in it's original form in the present México. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Aztecs, the people of Tenochtitlán, now: México City. They were formally known as "Nahuatls".
People must understand that two invasions were made to México in 1592, the military invasion, led by Hernán Cortés, and the theological, led by the Catholic Church.
The first won by an inhuman difference, primarily because of the common cold virus and other illnesses imported by the Spaniards.
The second was never consumed, for the traditions and beliefs are so deeply rooted in the Nahuatl people, that many of them are still kept alive by many of us, over 400 years latter, and that is what makes you proud of being Mexican: With all the bad stuff that has happened after all that time, we've never stopped being Mexican.
The only drawback I see in this film is that many people will not make sense of some of the dialog or reactions of the characters; therefore, I recommend you do a small research of pre-Columbian, specifically Mexican culture before you feast your senses to this spectacle.
If you wish to understand more of the Mexican culture, watch this movie. You will not be disappointed.
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999)
One of México's finest; with some improvement on dialogs still.
Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas is with out question one of México's finest films to date. One tiny detail: dialogs are still a bit off timing...
See... when you're wrestling a friend to the floor YOU DO NOT expose your philosophy on love while you beat his brains out!
There is a scene in the movie in which something like such happens.
Actors do a marvelous job! One of the best I've seen anywhere.
I FULLY RECOMMEND YOU SEE IT. You'll have fun and probably find out which of the guys or galls is you... or how many of them live in you.
Underground (1995)
A work of Art, yet not Universal.
I do not agree with those who say it´s a bad movie, yet I do think that if you don´t understand the Culture, the whole work may seem very difficult to grasp.
It´s a very rich black-turning-purple humor, but still is a movie with a very violent pace. If you don´t understand the passion of that people from the beginning, it will seem to be excessive.
The movie is 3 hours long, and the first 1:45 got to me, but the tide suddenly turned when I realized that the people living 'Underground' didn´t know WWII was over! It´s that fast paced! (I actually don´t remember the point in which Marko decides to "start the act")
If you really like the cinema, watch this one; if you´re not that fond of it, it will tire you and you´ll never appreciate it´s art.
The part I loved the most was the last 30 mins. the ending is one of the most originals I´ve seen. Loved it! Me? I liked it a lot, I´ll see it once more.