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Oct. 9th, 2007 09:21 am
How neurotic can your father get?
I don't know if Instituto Cervantes grouped films according to themes or, uh, certain likenesses, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tristrantrakand and I ended up watching two films about neurotic fathers last Sunday at the Pelikula! Pelikula! Spanish Film Festival in Greenbelt. Not that I'm complaining, because Derecho de Familia (Family Law) and Semen, Una Historia de Amor (Semen, A Love Story) were both very good anyway.
Ariel Perelman (Daniel Hendler) looks at his father (Arturo Goetz) as a rather eccentric character, from the way he goes about with his daily life as a lawyer in private practice. Unlike Perelman Jr., the elder Perelman has a way of getting to know his clients, co-workers, and people around him, something that Ariel doesn't quite get, even as he exudes a confident and competent aura as a law professor. When he starts his own family, however, Ariel finally starts to see more than a parent in his father, and slowly learns to step on the daddy shoes for his own son.
From the way the title sounded, I expected Derecho to be a sobfest, but it was actually quite the opposite. The light treatment of the daddy story made it heartwarming but not tearjerky, and the epiphany at the end was so simple and amazing. And then it makes you think--what did I miss and how could I have missed it? The cutesy stuff weren't overdone, either. So I gave it a 4/5 in the score card :)
Derecho de Familia's English trailer. Sorry, couldn't embed it here.
Now, this one was simply hilarious, oh, god. I can't even elaborate on how funny it is. What do you get when you put together a neurotic guy working in an artificial insemination clinic, a bubbly trapeze artist who wants an anonymous father for her future child, test tubes of sperm, and babies? I'll just let you watch the trailer to give you an idea:
Neurotic fathers, yes. My father is one, especially after mum flew to Italy. And you know what men are like when they get neurotic: they become way too hilarious. Take Ariel and Serafin (from Semen) for example. And heck, they do get adorable at some point.
So, anyway. Support the Spanish film fest, it runs until the 14th in Greenbelt.
[mood|
Delighted]
tristrantrakand and I ended up watching two films about neurotic fathers last Sunday at the Pelikula! Pelikula! Spanish Film Festival in Greenbelt. Not that I'm complaining, because Derecho de Familia (Family Law) and Semen, Una Historia de Amor (Semen, A Love Story) were both very good anyway.Ariel Perelman (Daniel Hendler) looks at his father (Arturo Goetz) as a rather eccentric character, from the way he goes about with his daily life as a lawyer in private practice. Unlike Perelman Jr., the elder Perelman has a way of getting to know his clients, co-workers, and people around him, something that Ariel doesn't quite get, even as he exudes a confident and competent aura as a law professor. When he starts his own family, however, Ariel finally starts to see more than a parent in his father, and slowly learns to step on the daddy shoes for his own son.
From the way the title sounded, I expected Derecho to be a sobfest, but it was actually quite the opposite. The light treatment of the daddy story made it heartwarming but not tearjerky, and the epiphany at the end was so simple and amazing. And then it makes you think--what did I miss and how could I have missed it? The cutesy stuff weren't overdone, either. So I gave it a 4/5 in the score card :)
Derecho de Familia's English trailer. Sorry, couldn't embed it here.
Now, this one was simply hilarious, oh, god. I can't even elaborate on how funny it is. What do you get when you put together a neurotic guy working in an artificial insemination clinic, a bubbly trapeze artist who wants an anonymous father for her future child, test tubes of sperm, and babies? I'll just let you watch the trailer to give you an idea:
Neurotic fathers, yes. My father is one, especially after mum flew to Italy. And you know what men are like when they get neurotic: they become way too hilarious. Take Ariel and Serafin (from Semen) for example. And heck, they do get adorable at some point.
So, anyway. Support the Spanish film fest, it runs until the 14th in Greenbelt.
[mood|
Delighted]