Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Forty years later, one of the strongest works of the cinema of the 80s, and the filmography of its director, keeps intact his interest and his ability to excite. We do not know very well what has upset Travis when it appears wandering through the desert, in search of a land that bought in the city of Paris (Texas) where it has never been. Little by little we found out that he broke with his wife and has a son in the care of his brother; and that Paris is the place where it was conceived. Travis undertakes a restoration trip that excites us. Impressive climate sequence in the “Peep Show” where love rebors without seeing the loved person.
Ghostlight (Kelly O'Sullivan Y Alex Thompson, 2025)
Dan is a construction worker who goes through a crisis after a family misfortune; He lives badly with his wife and teenage daughter, who does not save provocations. But Dan takes refuge and manages to supercar the situation with an amateur theater group that represents “Romeo and Julieta.” Although with certain hesitation in the first part, the theme of the theater is taken as therapeutic activity and an expressive parallelism between Shakespeare's work and the situation of Dan and his family is established. I liked it.
High (Emmanuel Courcol, 2024)
It is quite gratifying this dramatic comedy about illness, stolen childhood and family, well bathed for music. They contrast Two brothers: a cosmopolitan orchestra director and a member of a symphonic band of miners from a city threatened by unemployment. After a surprising start, immediate development seems more foreseeable but the script leads us agility to the encounter between those brothers who have known very different and distant lives. Advisable.
A free man (Laura Hojman, 2024)
The title is taken from the tomb of the Montmatre cemetery where Agustín Gómez Arcos rests, a playwright and Almeria novelist, exiled in Paris and a writer in French whose work is barely known. The best thing about this solid documentary is not to claim the figure of Gómez Arcos and invite us to read it. Beyond the particular case, It is demonstrated that dictatorships end up leaving incurable injuries: In the writer who has to go from the country and when he can return he is none, and in the society that also inherited censorship and keeps it with that absence. (It serves me to read his novel “Ana No”, with an impressive trip).
To anger (Gemma Blasco, 2025)
The complaint of the guilt that many women victims of violations feel is very pertinent. The trauma leads to a silence that does not cure easily. The protagonist, who is an actress, finds in the representation of “Medea” an opportunity to overcome the situation. I believe that there is valuable material in this story – armed from the girl's point of view – and the underlying theme, but the script offers ups and downs, redundancies (paper of the brother in front of the absence of the boyfriend) and digressions that do not always work (javeli disounds) and that subtract strength. Nor does the choice of the protagonist help, with little charisma. In any case, an interesting work.
8 (Julio Mend, 2025)
It causes a certain stupor that a filmmaker as endowed as Julio Medem Filme a didactic story about the two Spain with the (pretentious) structure of 8 chapters in (false) sequence sequence throughout several decades, between 1931 and 2021. He says nothing that we do not know, the melodrama works halfway and the elements of humor squeak at times (very good the reproach of a child: “Mom, who are stroking the taxi driver”). The poetry of Medem has disappeared from a piece that, already as a project, is seen and known.
Source: https://cineenserio.com/pelis-que-se-dejan-ver-el-28-de-marzo-de-2025/
