On November 21, 2025 they arrive in theaters Alpha by Julia Ducournau, nightmare of pandemics and superstitions, Dracula by Luc Besson, a new reinterpretation of the classic figure of the Transylvanian vampire; and on platforms we can see Mr. Burton by Marc Evans, narration of the first steps of the Welsh actor Richard Burton, and Cupid in Oslo by Dag Johan Haugerud, a peculiar romantic cinema of Norwegian origin.
From historical plagues to superstitions of body purification through the recent covid-19 pandemic, human beings have been threatened by infectious agents and unbeatable plagues. This film is about this and stars a teenager and her mother; It seemed familiar and repetitive to me, at times strident with bloody music and shots. Refrain.
Dracula (Luc Besson, 2025)
Luc Besson does his reading of Bram Stoker, presenting the Transylvanian count as a historical figure and underlining his condition as a suffering victim for centuries due to the absence of his wife: after her death in a cruel battle, Vlad II renounces God who condemns him to live eternally without love. The perspective is interesting and seems original to me, but the more painterly Besson leaves that point of view in the background to introduce bugs and magic, dances in Versailles halls and other fireworks that unnecessarily prolong the film and take it to a no man's land that will satisfy neither Tyrians nor Trojans. In the end, dispensable.
Mr. Burton (Marc Evans, 2025) (Movistar+)
The very first beginnings on the stage of the famous Welsh actor Richard Burton are reconstructed with conviction and excellent setting in a story that highlights the family conditions of a very talented young man who seems condemned to be an alcoholic miner like his father. He is fortunate that a teacher believes in him, which changes his life. Maybe the movie isn't much, but I really like the teacher-disciple stories where the hunger to know and grow converge with the desire to teach and see the fruit.
Cupid in Oslo (Day Johan Haugerud, 2024) (Filmin)
After Sex en Oslo and while it is announced to be released in theaters Dreams in Oslo The Spanish platform offers this feature film that is part of the trilogy filmed last year by Haugerud. I have been interested and surprised at times by the stories of sex and love of two health workers who work with patients suffering from prostate problems: a doctor who has a relationship with a married woman and a nurse who meets a traveler on the ferry. In the latter there is a lot of tenderness and it invites us to appreciate how the sexual body is also the purely love object.
Source: https://cineenserio.com/pelis-que-se-dejan-ver-el-21-de-noviembre/
