Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Ciencias naturales (2014)

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Year of first release: 2014
Director: Matías Lucchesi
Actors: Paula Hertzog, Paula Barrientos
Country: RA, F
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 24.09.2014, Trueba 2, FSSDZ2014, Spanish with English subtitles
Synopsis: Lila (Hertzog), a 12-years-old girl, has been educated by her mother in a lost part of Argentina, Los condores. Keen to know her identity, she decides to meet her father. She only knows he worked for a company building antennae in the region. When she escapes from the school, the teacher Jimena (Barrientos) decides to help her. 
Review: The story sounds classical but the distances and the roughness in this remote region of Argentina makes it challenging and interesting. The landscapes are amazing and enhance the emotions provided by the amazing acting of Paula Hertzog. She is a very promising figure. For only 12-year-old her charisma when she is in front of the camera is incredible. With these landscapes, this solid story and such an actress, the technical work seems little but is very well done.
This first ful size movie shows good mastering of Lucchesi. From a simple but solid story, it is talentuous to make a movie with suspense and force.
Rating: 8 /10

1 comment:

  1. I've watched the movie at the SSFBerlin independently of the read of review here. I'm just discovering it now. Dow-to-earth and uncomplicated movie, nevertheless I got quite enchanted quickly. Unpretentious, without violence, without meanness or irony. And indeed, perfect acting.After the screening, for the first time in a German cinema I did not here a single negative critic among the public. Same word showing up in everyone's comments: "schön" = "beautiful".

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