The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
Cinemark Her most recent film, "The Headless Woman," was vastly more interesting. Martel defies the canonized "Catholic" topics by alienating the values of love,detest and sickness.Inner sickness,vacant passion and finally,that tempest called teenage years.The languid pace of the film doesn't repulse the viewer,on the contrary...I felt more repulsed by the holiness of certain characters,thus giving me a reason to disrespect their religiousness.
| There is practically no script at all.
June 16, 2005
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| Rating: 3.5/4 Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Running away from a bar without paying the bill is just the first adventure for Liz (mother to newborn Nicanor) and Rosa (supposed mother to newborn Clarisa). A very intelligent movie marked by candor and compassion.
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...at once humane, encompassing every shade of gray, and bracingly cold-eyed in its assessment of human endeavor.
With this well executed drama, a follow-up to her La Cienega, Lucrecia Martel emerges as a major Argentinean filmmaker.
Love her or hate her, Martel's vision and approach to story structure are absolutely unique.
A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation -- to save a man from sin. By contrast, "The Holy Girl" has almost no content whatsoever.
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The girl's mother also develops a mild crush on this doctor, which is hard to understand because he barely ever speaks or does anything interesting.
July 7, 2005 Artfully piecing together a mosaic of nuanced details, fragments of sounds, and small moments, Martel creates a potent and specific portrait of adolescent life.
La Niña Santa is one of the smartest, sexiest, tenderest, funniest, quiet-and-unassuming movies I've seen in the last half dozen years.
The hotel owner, Helena, is subdued, brittle, avoiding the calls of her ex-husband's pregnant wife.