Hugo

USA (2011)

Hugo Cabret lives in Paris. He was born after the IWW. Currently he is orphan because firstly he lost his mother and after he lost his father. They where closely related. Hugo's father was a clocks professional. He loved clock's mechanisms and all kind of mechanical machines. He found and strange kind of robot called “automaton”. It was his last work. But was not finished. Now Hugo (that lives inside the Paris railway station) is trying to fix it. He is following his father's notebook. Every day he looks for a new part to complete his creation. But one day, Georges Méliès (he has a toy shop inside the Train Station) stoles it from the boy. Why? Nobody knows. Melies has a strange secret. Hugo needs to his notebook and he'll try everything to get it. In the path, he'll discover the Melies secret; a secret full of magic, fantasy, movies, work and passion. 

The last year, Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Afterhours...) surprised everybody with this familiar film (filmed in 3D). And this is a good familiar movie; It's not another stupid movie for kids. It's a high budget one, of course, but it has plot, story, good actors and message. With Hugo your children and you can dream, can learn and can enjoy with a movie. A movie inside a movie, cause Hugo speaks about the film's world from George Melies eyes. A great tribute to this genius, this magician, this pioneer of fantastic movies. Thanks Mr. Melies. Thanks Mr. Scorsese.

 Mark: 8.8

To Remember: Music and Visual Effects. Simply perfects. 
To Forget: From another point of view, this movie would be more thrilling. It would have been so easy and so good...



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Yoidore tenshi (El ángel ebrio)

Japón (1948)

Producción dirigida por el maestro japonés Akira Kurosawa. En un barrial suburbial vive el doctor Sanada, un viejo loco que atiende en su consulta cualquiera que vaya, incluidos yakuzas de poca monta heridos tras alguna pelea entre bandas. Hasta la consulta se deja caer Matsunaga, un yakuza herido de bala en una mano, como siempre Sanada lo cura pero con su fuerte carácter entabla una discusión con él y acaban a golpes en la consulta. Sanada es un hombre de mucho genio, un gran médico, pero vive en la miseria debido a su afición al alcohol, lo que no le quita de ser un gran profesional como sanador y preocuparse de sus pacientes. A Matsunaga le diagnóstica que tiene la enfermedad de la tuberculosis y que con sus consejos cuidándose podrá curarse, pero para ello debe renunciar a muchas cosas dentro la estructura yakuza y sus círculos de poder, porque ya Matsunaga está en los peldaños más altos de la pirámide de la banda. Podrá Matsunaga mantenerse como uno de los jefes de la banda con tal terrible enfermedad.

Nos encontramos ante una de las obras menores de Kurosawa, uno de sus títulos menos conocidos y más tempraneros que se engloba en la etapa de la posguerra mundial y con ese toque neorrealista al igual que los maestros italianos (Visconti, De Sica, etc...). Aún no siendo conocida y con una paupérrima calidad de imagen es una historia muy interesante donde se nota el sello del maestro japonés. Destacaría el buen hacer en el papel de doctor Sanada de Takashi Shimura , incluso ensombrece al actor Toshirô Mifune (muy habitual en las películas de Kurosawa) como el yakuza que llega a su consulta. Una historia donde lo menos importante es el inicio y el desenlace, sino su desarrollo y lo que nos quiere contar el director de la profesión médica, un oficio donde se requiere una vocación extrema. De hecho el desenlace es bastante cutre con una peleilla bastante mal rodada. Un relato muy recomendable que hace que nunca pierda la fe en los clásicos y en Kurosawa.

Para Recordar: La relación de amistad del médico japonés aficionado a la botella de sake y el yakuza enfermo de tuberculosis en el período de posguerra. Algunos detalles en el film de Kurosawa por lo que se le considera un maestro. Por ejemplo ese río putrefacto donde juegan los niños del pueblo, una metáfora de la miseria después de la guerra y como se preocupa Sanada de que nadie se acerque a él.

Para Olvidar: La mala calidad de la imagen en la película, sinceramente infumable, no tuvieron que currarse la decoración en nada porque ni siquiera se intuye.



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Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel

Israel (2007)

In Israel, during the 60's, a strange kind of booklets were published. Their name was Stalags (as prisoners camps' name in WWII) Those booklets were pornographic stories about American prisoners that were rapped by Nazi girl soldiers. They looked as a normal comic but they had sexual content. Their success was imminent. In one week were selling more than 80.000 Stalags. How was this possible in a country as Israel? They hate Nazis. This documentary tries to explain it. Maybe because nobody spoke about Holocaust and Stalags ware the first documents with that topic. In the second part the director speaks about an important Israeli book about Holocaust called “The dolls' house” (the British Band, Joy Division, chose its name cause that book). It is a serious book whose reading is mandatory in Israeli School. However, that book is about a story very close to pornography; many experts said that It's a non-real plot, very similar to Stalags' stories. Curious documentary about an “alternative” Jewish society.

In 2007 Ari Libsker, from Israel, filmed a controversial documentary about Pornography in the Israel of post-war . Really the plot is very simple: he speaks about a porno-comics called Stalag and about “The dolls' house” (an unknown book for non-Jewish people). But the most interesting idea is about the people that lived in Israel before WWII. That people had a society away from Holocaust. They loved "first world" things, like alcohol, parties and pornography. Sometimes, refugees are annoying cause they went to "invade" their country. Very curious documentary.

Mark: 7.3

To Remember: The Israeli ex-soldier speaking about his extreme sex-experiences with a girl; she is granddaughter of a SS soldier. 
To Forget: Too many things for 60 minutes only.

 

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