Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe are proud to debut the first episode of the Mubi Podcast: Encuentros in co-production with La Corriente del Golfo Podcast. This episode inaugurates a new space for dialogues between some of the most interesting voices in Latin American cinema. Despite knowing each other previously through social channels, this is the first time that Gael García Bernal and Colombian writer Carolina Sanín meet to think together about the relationship between film, acting and life itself. Their enthusiastic conversation covers theories and endearing filmmaking anecdotes about cinema's importance in our lives, and a shared interest in cinematic portrayals of the most essential bond: friendship. To listen to the episode and subscribe on your preferred podcast app, click here.According to a new interview with Telerama, Julie Delpy has turned down a fourth Before film by Richard Linklater,...
- 6/23/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSFollowing the launch of the English-language podcast earlier this month, yesterday we revealed our upcoming original Spanish-language podcast! In the first season of the Mubi Podcast: Encuentros, co-produced by Mubi and La Corriente del Golfo Podcast, leading voices in Latin American film and culture come together to think about their own methods and processes for approaching the craft, talk about personal experiences, and reflect on films and filmmakers that have inspired their work. We begin with Gael García Bernal (Mexico) and Carolina Sanín (Colombia) as the guests of the first episode, entitled The Ritual of the Masks. The first season of Encuentros consists of in-depth conversations among colleagues, an encounter between two people who share their love for cinema. Check out the trailer above and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts here.Andrea Arnold...
- 6/16/2021
- MUBI
A quirk of fate pitches a professionally stressed single mother into an unlikely love affair in an affecting drama from Colombia
There’s enormous tenderness in this drama of disillusion from Colombian director Franco Lolli – but also an overwhelmingly unsentimental sense of life’s seriousness and painfulness. In the leading role, Lolli has cast a non-professional: his cousin, the author and academic, Carolina Sanín, and she is outstanding. With every gesture, every moue of weary patience, she conveys the awful strain her character is under.
Silvia is a single mother in Bogotá. She has a stressful job as legal counsel to an arrogant, slippery public official, who is clearly scheming to let Silvia take the blame for a recent perceived irregularity in public spending. She is also having to deal with her difficult and cantankerous mother, Leticia, who has terminal cancer, and with her young son, Toni (Antonio Martinez), now...
There’s enormous tenderness in this drama of disillusion from Colombian director Franco Lolli – but also an overwhelmingly unsentimental sense of life’s seriousness and painfulness. In the leading role, Lolli has cast a non-professional: his cousin, the author and academic, Carolina Sanín, and she is outstanding. With every gesture, every moue of weary patience, she conveys the awful strain her character is under.
Silvia is a single mother in Bogotá. She has a stressful job as legal counsel to an arrogant, slippery public official, who is clearly scheming to let Silvia take the blame for a recent perceived irregularity in public spending. She is also having to deal with her difficult and cantankerous mother, Leticia, who has terminal cancer, and with her young son, Toni (Antonio Martinez), now...
- 7/8/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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