Jaime Rosales
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Cannes 2018 Dispatch #2: Donbass, Petra
Speaking of soap operas: Jaime Rosales follows Farhadi’s plunge into the vernacular of Spanish culebrones with a complementary appropriation of melodrama in Petra, an achronological chronicle of one woman’s search for truth, history and her own identity. Starring Bárbara Lennie (who, funny enough, also appears in a significant supporting role in Everybody Knows), the movie intrigues from the outset, playfully opening with a title card announcing Chapter II, along with a concise summary of the key narrative information this chapter will provide (“How Petra enters Jaume’s world”), a strategy that each subsequent chapter also employs. At his characteristically unhurried tempo, […]
by Blake Williams on May 11, 2018 -
Arthouse Summer: T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival
The T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival takes place in the middle of summer, when the city of Wroclaw (pronounced Vrot-Slav) is pretty warm. Poland generally has a moderate climate, but the administrative seat of the Polish Silesia — the largest city in the western part of the country and Polska’s fourth largest overall — is pretty steamy. One could walk from the Scandic or Monopol hotels — two of the venues in which the festival put up its many guests — and have sweat dot the parts of your shirt that fit snuggly against your skin. It’s a long-contested […]
by Brandon Harris on Aug 5, 2014
