The balance of tenderness in How to Make a Million Dollars Before Grandma Dies without relaying on manipulation is perfect. Most directors wouldn’t be able to achieve this.
I can’t the last film that made me feel this way, but just like in the film and in a harmonic “life imitates art” we, as humans, usually forget a lot of relevant things. I don’t want to get into details in order to avoid possible spoilers and probably the best…
There’s a place at the south of South America called Tierra de Fuego, which means “Land of Fire”. It’s divided between Chile and Argentina. An Indian nomad civilisation, The Yaghan, used to inhabit this territory. They also had their own language, Yahgan, which is sadly extinct.
This language has a word that it’s probably my favourite word: mamihlapinatapai.
[ma.mi.ɬa.pi.na.ta.paj] according to the Guinness world record is “the most succinct word”. It describes “a look between two persons, each one is…
An incredibly well crafted documentary of one of the most influential women in Latin America.
I think people don’t realise how important and relevant this documentary is. The crew followed Olimpia since weeks BEFORE the law against cyber sexuality crimes were stablished and around five years after that. Director Indira Cato has talent, vision and a lot of courage and determination. There’s just a few times in cinema history where something like this were done.
