വിഖ്യാത സാഹിത്യകാരന് ദസ്തയെവ്സ്കിയുടെ 'വെളുത്ത രാവുകള് ' എന്ന ചെറുകഥയെ ആസ്പദമാക്കി സഞ്ജയ് ലീല ബന്സാലി സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ഹിന്ദി ചലച്ചിത്രമാണ് 'സാവരിയ ' രണ്ബീര് കപൂര് സോനം കപൂര് എന്നിവരാണ് പ്രധാന റോളുകളില് അഭിനയിക്കുന്നത് . സംഗീതംകൊണ്ടും ദൃശ്യവിഷ്കാരംകൊണ്ടും മനോഹരമാക്കിയ ഗാനങ്ങള് ഉള്ള സിനിമയാണിത് . 'വെളുത്ത രാവുകളെ' ആധാരമാക്കി നിരവധി സിനിമകള് റഷ്യന് , ഇറ്റാലിയന് ,ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് , ഇറാനിയന് , തമിഴ് തുടങ്ങിയ ഭാഷകളില് ഇറങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Tropic of Blood_Dominican Republic
Tropic of Blood
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Directed by | Juan Delancer |
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Starring | Michelle Rodriguez Juan Fernandez César Évora Sergio Carlo Claudette Lali Celines Toribio |
Release date(s) | 2010 |
Language | Spanish, with English subtitles |
Trópico de Sangre (English: Tropic of Blood) is a dramatic film based on the true story of the Dominican Republic's historic Mirabal sisters.
Plot summary
The film focuses on Minerva Mirabal and tells the true story of how she and her sisters came to represent the greatest threat to dictator Rafael Trujillo and his regime. The Mirabal sisters were involved in an underground movement against the government. They were assassinated in 1960 by men under the instruction of the Luis Amiama Tio according to Pupo Roman, although their death was made to appear as an automobile accident. Many citizens were outraged and a few months later Trujillo was assassinated by an ambush lead by Antonio de La Maza, who was played by actor Cesar Evora.Cast
- Michelle Rodriguez as Minerva Mirabal
- Juan Fernandez as Rafael Trujillo
- César Évora as Antonio de la Maza
- Claudette Lali as Emilia Bencosme
- Sergio Carlo as Manuel "Manolo" Aurelio Tavárez Justo
- Sharlene Taulé as Maria Teresa Mirabal
- Celines Toribio as Dedé Mirabal
- Luchi Estevez as Patria Mirabal
- Héctor Then as Priest Luis Peña González
- Johnnié Mercedes as Dr.Tejada Florentino
Filming information
- Filming wrapped in the Dominican Republic and debuted at the New York International Latino Film Festival on July 29th, 2009.
- Real-life surviving sister, Dedé Mirabal, consulted on and participated in the production of the film, she was also played by actress Celinés Toribio.
Controversy
In July 2008, the president of the Minerval Mirabal Foundation, Carlos Leiter, publicly criticized the film, specifically the involvement of actress Michelle Rodriguez due to her past legal issues. Leiter threatened to sue Rodriguez and her co-producers citing illegal use of the Mirabal name, unless charitable organizations of his choice, including his own, were given all revenues, including Rodriguez's entire personal salary, from the film.Within days, the film's writer/director Juan Delancer responded to such criticisms by stating "One does not need permission to bring history to film." Delancer pointed out that Dedé Mirabal and the Mirabal family themselves approved of and supported the film and Rodriguez, with Dedé even appearing in the film as its narrator. Delancer also defended Rodriguez, as both a person and actress, saying it is impressive that "a figure of her stature who had just completed projects with the likes of Charlize Theron (in Battle in Seattle) and James Cameron (in Avatar)" would even participate in such a small production, let alone show such "undeniable" dedication to it as both an actress and producer.
Story of the Mirabal sisters in other media
- In the Time of the Butterflies is a novel by Julia Álvarez, fictionalizing the lives of the Mirabal sisters from their personal accounts of what happened during the time. The novel was later turned into a film with the same name. It stars Salma Hayek, Marc Anthony and Edward James Olmos as the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
- In 1999, the United Nations established the day of November 25th, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of the three Mirabal sisters.
- Ms. Dedé Mirabal still lives in the same household they all grew up. She has been responsible for keeping their legend alive. At 85 years old, she has recently released her first and only book about her sisters and events called “Vivas en su jardin” (“Alive in their garden”), published by Vintage Español/Random House Publishing.
- There is another film project by the Dominican director Etzel Baez, called "Crimen", but it has been left unfinished since 2006.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Ali Zaoua_Morocco
Ali Zaoua
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Directed by | Nabil Ayouch |
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Produced by | Etienne Comar Jean Cottin Antoine Voituriez |
Written by | Nabil Ayouch Nathalie Saugeon |
Starring | Maunim Kbab Abdelhak Zhayra Hicham Moussaune Amal Ayouch Mustapha Hansali |
Music by | Krishna Levy |
Cinematography | Renaat Lambeets Vincent Mathias |
Editing by | Jean-Robert Thomann |
Distributed by | Arab Film Distribution (USA) |
Release date(s) | September 8, 2000 (2000-09-08) |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Morocco |
Language | Arabic French |
Plot
Kwita (Maunim Kbab), Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussaune) and Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) are homeless boys living in Casablanca. The boys were in a gang led by Dib (Said Taghmaoui), but decide to rebel against him under Ali's guidance. However, Ali is killed by members of the gang while he is hired as a cabin boy on a ship, and the other boys decide to give him a proper funeral. Kwita sits a cemetery where his lack of religious training is criticized while Omar briefly returns to Dib's gang. Boubker, the smallest and most vulnerable of the boys, threatens to kill himself but recovers his sense of self and helps the old fisherman on his boat.Awards
- Bronze Horse, 2000 Stockholm Film Festival
- Audience Award, 2000 Amiens International Film Festival
Reviewed by Jamie Russell | |
Ali Zaoua may have been left to wander the streets of Casablanca with the rest of the city's glue-sniffing street urchins, but when he's killed in a stone fight with a gang of boys, his three friends decide to bury him "like a prince".
Eking out a life amid the squalor of Morocco's port and taking refuge in the city's abandoned construction sites, Kwita, Omar, and Boubker don't have much chance of giving him the funeral he deserves. They can barely find enough food to eat, whatever money they steal gets spent on glue, and deaf-and-dumb gang leader Dib (Saïd Taghmaoui, from "Three Kings") is after them.
Nabil Ayouch's film immerses us in the lives of these grubby street kids, limiting the adult roles to just three characters. It's at its best when showing us the fractured innocence that these children share - they may only be eight, but they've already developed an understanding of the harsh realities of the world that's far beyond their years. At the same time, Ayouch captures their childish dreams in a series of (glue-induced) hallucinations where a series of chalk drawings come to life.
The script puts this clash between innocence and experience to good effect in the marvellous dialogue that constantly switches from naiveté to profanity and back again. But it's the beguiling performances from the three young children that are really captivating, and it's their sense of the comic and the tragic elements of their predicament that gives the film its enjoyable energy. A real treat.
La Fiebre del Loco_Chile
La Fiebre del Loco
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Directed by | Andrés Wood |
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Written by | René Arcos, Gilberto Villaroel |
Release date(s) | October 2001 Chile December 2001 Cuba January 2002 United States January 30, 2002 Netherlands April 16, 2002 Mexico June 22, 2002 Poland August 9, 2002 Peru December 20, 2002 Spain[1] |
Running time | 90-94 minutes |
Country | Chile |
Language | Chilean Spanish |
Budget | Unknown |
Plot
The film is about infighting between visiting prostitutes and their husbands' wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile that has become greedy and crazy for Abalone.[2][3] In Spanish the word loco has the dual meaning of Chilean Abalone and crazy. The film's tagline was "Amor y avaricia en un mundo de buzos y moluscos" (Spanish for: Love and greed in a world of scuba and mollusks). The film's title in German was Das Loco-Fieber and English Loco Fever. In the film all hell breaks loose when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of the Chilean abalone, a mollusk with aphrodisiacal effects.[4]Cast
- Emilio Bardi... Canuto
- Luis Dubó... Jorge
- Loreto Moyo... Sonia
- Luis Margani... Padre Luis (Father Luis)
- Tamara Acosta... Nelly
- María Izquierdo... Leila
- Mariana Loyola...
- Patricia López (credited as Patricia López Menadier)... Isabel
- Carmina Riego
- Pilar Zderich... Denisse
- Aldo Parodi
- Julio Marcone... Yukio
- Cristián Chaparro
- Gabriela Medina
- Carmen Barros
- Marcela Arroyave
- Claudia Hidalgo
- Chamila Rodríguez
- Pablo Striano
- Camila Videla
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Night of the Pencils_Argentina
Night of the Pencils
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Directed by | Héctor Olivera |
Produced by | Fernando Ayala Alejandro Sessa |
Written by | Screenplay: Héctor Olivera Daniel Kon Book: María Seoane Héctor Ruiz Núñez |
Starring | Alejo García Pintos Vita Escardó Pablo Novak Adriana Salonia Pablo Machado |
Music by | José Luis Castiñeira de Dios |
Cinematography | Leonardo Rodríguez Solís |
Editing by | Miguel López |
Distributed by | Aries Cinematográfica |
Release date(s) | Argentina: September 4, 1986 United States: March 14, 1987 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Argentina |
Language | Spanish |
This motion picture, based on the actual events recorded in history as Night of the pencils (La noche de los lápices), tells the story of seven teenagers, five boys and two girls, who, during a time of economic and political unrest in Argentina in the mid 1970s, protest for lower bus fares in Buenos Aires.
The event takes place as Argentina's notorious Dirty War begins.
Plot
The kids wanted reduced student bus fares so they take to the streets and protest. At first, under Isabel Martínez de Perón's government they succeed, but their protests draw hostile attention from the military regime, led by Emilio Eduardo Massera, that overthrows Peron. The "leftist agitators" are not tolerated by the new government.The ensuing crackdown on the student social activities is demonstrated in the film when police break up a school dance wielding swords and on horseback.
Later, six students are kidnapped in the middle of the night, and the police claim ignorance about their whereabouts.
Pablo (Alejo García Pintos), a seventh member of the group is later arrested by the police. He learns that his friends have been brutally tortured by governmental authorities and he's not spared. The police give him electric shocks while radio music masks his cries.
He was fortunate to survive and tell their horrific story. His classmates were never found and became part of the thousands of desaparecido students who were kidnapped and never seen again by their families or friends.
Cast
- Alejo García Pintos as Pablo Díaz
- Vita Escardó as Claudia Falcone
- Leonardo Sbaraglia as Daniel
- José María Monje as Panchito
- Pablo Machado as Claudio
- Adriana Salonia as María Clara
- Tina Serrano as Mrs. Falcone
- Héctor Bidonde as Mr. Falcone
- Alfonso De Grazia as priest impersonator
- Lorenzo Quinteros as Raúl
Background
Basis of film
The motion picture was based on the non-fiction book, La noche de los lápices, written by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz Núñez. The book profiles seven high school student activists from La Plata, Argentina, including lone survivor Pablo Díaz, who gives the authors his testimony. The students were kidnapped by the government after protesting for cheaper bus fare.Pablo Díaz was incarcerated for four years. The other six students became a part of the 236 Argentine teen-agers who were kidnapped and disappeared during the military dictatorship.
Filming locations
The film was shot entirely in the city of La Plata.Distribution
Night of the Pencils first opened in Argentina on September 4, 1986. It has been featured at various film festivals including: the New York New Directors/New Films Festival, the Moscow Film Festival, where it was nominated for the "Golden Prize," and the Toronto Film Festival.In March 2003 the film was included in a slate of films shown at the 1st International Film Festival on Human Rights, held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Critical reception
Critic Manavendra K. Thakur was appreciative of the direction of the film and wrote, "Olivera seems to have kept his integrity mostly intact. He does not shy away from disturbing realities, and he draws a surprisingly complex portrait of the students, their captors, and the students' parents. The film's accomplishment in this regard is considerable and therefore worthy of serious attention...[and] this is especially true of the film's second half."
Caryn James, film critic for The New York Times, also liked Olivera's work, and wrote, "Mr. Olivera builds his film on irony and contrast, so the visual beauty of the early scenes - the deep blue night in which cars and lights glisten - calls attention to the ominous unseen political dangers. In daylight, the once-beautiful, now crumbling buildings, including the high school itself, become emblems of a country falling apart, not knowing what to preserve from its past."
Award nomination
- Moscow International Film Festival: Golden Prize, Héctor Olivera; 1987.
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