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Notes on a Summer
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... A sharp and sensitive exploration of the emotional tribulations that loving sensations usually entail, exasperated by economic and professional insecurities that complicate everything. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 18, 2023
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Anhell69
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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It is fascinating to hear the experiences and testimonies from these urban angels that seem out of a poem by Xavier Villaurrutia. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 11, 2023
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The Sitting Duck
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[La Syndicaliste] is an effective judicial political thriller interpreted with solvency by Isabelle Huppert, an expert in enduring calmly and coldly the most humiliating aggressions without betraying the real emotional impact... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Time
(2006)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[Time] ventures forcefully into black parody terrain by displaying the whims and narcissisms of the youth in South Korea... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 28, 2023
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3-Iron
(2004)
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Carlos Bonfil
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A triangle of frustrations, revenge and disagreements, handled with ample irony, in which the storytelling talent of this surprising and versatile filmmaker shines. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 28, 2023
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The Coast Guard
(2002)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Kim Ki-duk reveals himself here as a keen dissector of personal horror and collective paranoias. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 28, 2023
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Love According to Dalva
(2022)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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In a certain way, this is a reverse coming-of-age story. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Passages
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Franz Rogowski's superb performance as the unstable Tomas much contributes to the success and dramatic power of Passages... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Talk to Me
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Despite its flaws, we can say the Philippou brothers have debuted with the right foot forward. Or rather show that they have a good hand? [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2023
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Afire
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... An exquisite parable of chastised moral pettiness. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2023
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Barbie
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Signaling the reach and limitations of a feminist point of view beleaguered by a consumerism that assimilates and trivializes social causes... the film simultaneously mirrors it and questions it blandly. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 07, 2023
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The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Within a genre that tends to thrive in sensationalism, The Lady of Silence is a rigorous documentary that is especially respectful of the victims and their relatives. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 31, 2023
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The Daughters of Fire
(2018)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The movie lacks a consistent plot, and it plays like a road movie with orgiastic notes... The reiteration of sexual acts is equal to a porn production, and ultimately just as tiresome. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 31, 2023
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The world forever changed after the atomic bomb. The world of cinema after Oppenheimer remains fundamentally the same. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Oppenheimer proves to be a perceptive and intelligent film, a sobering reminder of old catastrophes often anticipated. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Blanquita
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Guzzoni's film intelligently and cleverly sets up the complexity of the [abuse] case. It is up to the audience to infer its other intricacies and uncomfortable suggestions. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 17, 2023
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A Night of Knowing Nothing
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... A hybrid documentary that lies between political signaling and fortuitous subjectivity, that, even if not thematically, delivers a great display of artistic inventiveness in its form. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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Boreal
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Boreal is a characteristic sample of independent, contemplative cinema without many opportunities to reach a wider audience except for international film festivals. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 11, 2023
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The Kegelstatt Trio
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Eric Rohmer's theatricality and Rita Azevedo's visual poetry make for a fascinating combination.
Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Emily the Criminal
(2022)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Perhaps the realization is too distant for the character and there isn't an attempt to penetrate her psychology and motivation. Nonetheless, it's clear that the promise of the title is more than fulfilled. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 10, 2023
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To Catch a Killer
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The story is efficient until the final act stumbles with different revelations. It works, but it's too conventional. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 10, 2023
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See You Friday, Robinson
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Farahani, makes the documentary adopting -- as a tribute? -- Godard's characteristic style. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Dry Ground Burning
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... A complex and dark film that reveals the uncertainty and latent violence suffered by entire regions of the American continent. Quite a dramatic riddle.
Posted Jul 10, 2023
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... An unedited visual exploration inspired by the famous anatomical study by Dutchman Andreas Vesalius from 1543. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 05, 2023
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Time Theorem
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[A] laborious fabulation of a domestic reality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 03, 2023
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Trenque Lauquen: Part I
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The first part of Treqnue Lauquen is a narrative labyrinth in which the director invites the audience to use their own imagination to find a good port for departure. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 03, 2023
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Vera
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Vera Gemma possesses a vulnerability and a prolonged adolescent grace that makes her akin to the picturesque and fragile character played by Giulietta Massina in The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957). [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 03, 2023
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The Sacred Spirit
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The Sacred Spirit is a delirious comedy that irreverently addresses the propensity of a community to blindly fall for, in esoteric practice or political mirage, the manipulations of swindlers. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 03, 2023
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Psychosis in Stockholm
(2020)
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Carlos Bonfil
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With moral ambiguity, the film disarticulates the most popular notions about the relationship between a sick person with a potentially hostile social environment and her sensible teenage daughter... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 26, 2023
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Blondi
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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An irreverent sense of humor colored with infinite tenderness. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 12, 2023
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The Five Devils
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... The film oscillates between horror and melodrama, without picking a favorite between these expressions. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 05, 2023
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The Innocents
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Each of the child actors performs remarkably well, but in the case of Sam Ashraf/Ben – that criminal mind in which defenselessness and evil pettiness nestle indistinguishably – the acting is superb. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 30, 2023
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Last Summer
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Breillat has chosen to return to cinema without contributing anything new to a subject that has been dealt with a dozen times with greater dramatic urgency. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2023
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A Brighter Tomorrow
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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As is his custom, the egotistical actor/filmmaker vociferates his views on current cinema and other topics, with various tributes to classics and gratuitous musical interjections. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2023
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Perfect Days
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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As in his good old days, the filmmaker [Wim Wenders] achieves astounding emotional resonance with minimal elements. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2023
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Fallen Leaves
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Love, humor, melancholy, good feelings, political criticism, and music in one package that lasts 81 minutes. What else can you ask for? [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 24, 2023
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May December
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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There was a lot of potential... such as developing the theme of duplicity, the legitimacy of love in a society ruled by Puritanism, or the difference between cinema and reality... and Haynes has not taken advantage of any of it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 22, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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If Scorsese has lost anything with age, it is his capacity for synthesis. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 22, 2023
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About Dry Grasses
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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In its existential pessimism, we'll all end up drying like herbs. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 22, 2023
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Despite its coldness and discreetness, The Control Zone is an admirable exercise in control that is heart-wrenching. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 22, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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There are moments of extraordinarily absurd comedy, but the accumulation of all of them is not enough to hide the fact that what the director ultimately offers is a very uneven and paradoxically impersonal film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 22, 2023
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The Quiet Girl
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The Quiet Girl is an impeccably made film, mysterious and harsh in its revelations, among which a disenchanted idea stands out... "you don't always find happiness with your biological family." [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 15, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Cronin takes his actions to the height of excess. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 08, 2023
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Sundown
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Michel Franco delivers a harsh and disturbing film, with a nihilistic drift... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 08, 2023
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Small Body
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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... Rich in revelations and visual acumen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 01, 2023
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Trigal
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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This first glimpse of emotional maturity is the most seductive and sensitive aspect of Trigal; a solid debut.
Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Sintiéndolo Mucho
(2022)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Few documentaries have succeeded in summarizing with such certainty the virtues and flaws of an endearing personality that, in this case, refuses, despite the time, to feel past his prime. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 24, 2023
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The Double Life of Veronique
(1991)
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Carlos Bonfil
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A beautiful Irène Jacob, the Polish filmmaker's favorite muse, embodies two characters that are identical in their physiognomy and in the nature of their profession, although opposite in their respective temperaments. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 12, 2023
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Feature Film About Life
(2021)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The best moments convey dark humor about bureaucratic rituals in funeral homes that are mainly interested in profiting from the pain of others. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 11, 2023
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Sick of Myself
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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A funny, scathing and definitely disturbing satire. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 11, 2023
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