Premieres of the weekend: “The Quiet Girl”, “Missing” and “Terrifier 2”

love to grow

Miguel Anxo Fernandez

According to Colm Bairéad, the girl protagonist of the film Quiet girl “It teaches us that the human heart is very resilient, whether young or old.” The Irish director scripted the story of his countryman, the storyteller Claire Keegan (County Wicklow, 1968), which is based on three solid pillars: the demolition of the concept of family in its most traditional sense, kindness as an essential nutrient and, finally, the discovery that love helps you grow as you immerse into the human condition and open yourself up. It may seem like thinking with a lot of rhetoric, but Quiet girl it exudes sensitivity from every pore, partly due to the success with the choice of actress. His face becomes an effective emotional thermometer. His gaze and his silence fill the screen while the camera is away to give the viewer air to draw their own conclusions thanks to the open ending… and anyone who thinks what they think.

A girl’s biological parents are not the best environment for her to seek happiness or develop. A few initial brush strokes are enough. For this reason, when the new birth approaches, the parents decide to send her to a distant relative’s house for a while, and we suspect that it can only benefit her. The girl will find herself in front of a mature and wealthy couple, the owners of the country estate, but also shrouded in silence that hides the trauma. From now on we will witness a process of mutual acquaintance, the initial roughness of which will be predisposed to disappear. And it is about three people who have the need to love and feel loved. Two adults for whom the newcomer will be an opportunity in the midst of a touching commotion. Also interesting is the deliberate use of Gaelic (something only visible in the original version) against English, as the essence of Irish identity and its distinctive way of communicating.

«AN CAILÍN CIÚIN»

Ireland, 2022.

Director: Colm Bairead.

Cast: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Carolyn Bracken, Joan Sheehy.

Drama. 95 minutes.

small windows

Eduardo Galan Blanco

The film is told entirely through the computer screen! Such a thing could not even occur in the worst nightmares of an old film buff. After a boring test search —producers and screenwriters are the same— is inspiration from the series Black mirroryoung debutants signing is missing they set their own tour de force In a challenge like “if Buried is narrated entirely inside a coffin, we’ll do it all with the help of windows, icons, the internet, hacks, online translators and the help of Siri.”

Talk about this thriller is seemingly simple: Mom (Nia Long) gets lost in Colombia at the hands of a suspicious new boyfriend (Ken Leung, the show’s ruthless boss Industry), so a teenage girl (former teen TV star Storm Reid), with special skills and a computer addiction, decides to investigate her mother’s whereabouts from her apartment in Los Angeles.

Against all odds, the first half of the film works, even with some bursts of witty intergenerational empathy. An inspired De Almeida, as the Colombian whom the protagonist contacts to be her eyes in Cartagena de Indias, begins a paternal chemistry with Reid. There are excellent dialogue moments almost from the Marx Brothers: “I only do cleaning and electricity services,” pleads the worker to the young woman who sends him in search of fiancés. “Of course, I’m talking to Hollywood!”: a clumsy 60-year-old who only knows “old-fashioned WhatsApp” takes precise orders from a well-to-do teenager with admiration. “You remind me of my son who doesn’t take no for an answer,” explains the man from Cartagena. But after we’re introduced to the suspects — the character of the mother’s friend is pure Hitchcock’s Macguffin — and with the maddened intrusion of the FBI agent, the last move, cunning as hell, ends up giving us the go-ahead, so common in today’s cinema.

“MISSING”

United States, 2022.

Directors: Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick.

Cast: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Nia Long, Amy Landecker, Ken Leung, Tim Griffin, Megan Suri.

Thriller. 112 minutes.

Sensitive, chorus

Sabela caught

That’s called slasher — a term that comes from the English word slashwhich we can translate as slash— to a subgenre within horror films characterized by a psychopath/serial killer who is dedicated to killing and/or torturing a series of victims in an —extremely— violent manner (with a clear predilection for adolescents) and using a wide variety of tools. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974), Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) and its multiple sequels, or Freddy Krueger’s dream adventures that began with Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984), are clear examples of the pantheon of bloodthirsty killers joining — and already in its second installment — the sadistic clown from Intimidator.

With this sequel to the 2016 film, Damien Leone continues his macabre clown with bizarre humor and bad oral hygiene, to follow the brutal line of his predecessor, but now he goes further, with more blood and more beastly murders, in which everything turns out to be a feast entrails, severed limbs and pulled hair and entrails. Come on, a whole lot of latex prostheses and fake blood to spare is not for the most sensitive stomachs (and not for those who aren’t either).

With a beginning that is already a statement of intent and leaving almost no respite for more than two hours, this successor up and the hooligan from Pennywise (created by writer Stephen King) roams the surreal dreamscapes of a high school and a residential neighborhood at the height of Halloween, in pursuit of a heroine wielding a magical sword, while the box office figures on the other hand del charco confirm the continuity of the franchise .

Its publicity tells us that in the United States it caused vomiting, fainting, and abandonment of theaters. Well that. It will delight fans of this type of cinema, who “have them, hailo”. The others were warned.

“TERRIFIER 2”

USA, 2022.

Director: Damien Leone.

Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliot Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Kailey Hyman, Griffin Santopietro, Owen Myre, Casey Hartnett.

fantastic horror. 138 minutes.