This month why not join me and go Latino for ten days. I’m always open to trying new approaches to story-telling and with a playlist that includes comedies, crime, thriller and documentaries, this Festival is definitely worth a look. Here are the movies I’m likely to see.
Ten Days Without Mum
I saw the trailer for this one at the premiere. Not only was it listed as the Argentinian film of the year, it looked like the humour translated well which is not always the case. The movie tells the story of an utterly exhausted mother of four who decides to take a vacation for you guessed it, ten days. The question is how will dad cope? While not a revolutionary idea there were enough giggles in the trailer to make me add it to my list.
Thanks to the Latino Film Festival
Nossa Chape: Our Team
At the other end of the spectrum is this award-winning documentary. Maybe some of you will remember hearing news of the devastating plane crash in 2016, that took the lives of most of Brazil’s Chapecoense football club, The documentary includes exclusive access to the new team, the families and the three surviving players.
Amalia, the Secretary
Another comedy which sounds promising is, Amalia, the Secretary from Colombia. Amalia is described as ‘a cranky middle-aged secretary’ to the CEO of a family business that has seen better times. Her simple, safe life is turned upside down when she develops feelings for her building’s chaotic, spontaneity loving maintenance worker. She soon finds herself going to outrageous lengths to keep him around.
Thanks to Latino Film Festival
In Love and Hate
If you like a crime thriller this could be for you. Set in a luxury beachside hotel there’s a victim whom everyone has a motive to kill. Sounds like a Latino Midsommer Murders to me. The movie boasts an excellent cast and ahs been nominated seven-times for the Argentine Oscar.
Thanks to Latino film festival
The Accused
The tension and ambiguity filled 2018 Venice Film Festival Best Film nominee, The Accused follows a young middle-class girl whose life is upended when she becomes the lead suspect in the murder of her best friend; co-starring Gael García Bernal
El Angel
El Angel is the true story of Argentina’s most infamous and longest-serving baby-faced serial killer, Carlos Robledo Puch or “Argentina’s Angel of Death”. At only 17 years of age his youthful appearance hid his devious criminal mind. Directed by Luis Ortega the movie was number one at the local box office.
So there you go, let me know what you think.
For more information go to Luna Cinema or Palace Cinema or Cinema Latino Film Festival
