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An ex-convict returns home in search of a new life and a chance to reconnect with his estranged young daughter, only to be met with resistance from his father-in-law - an influential pastor in the Evangelical community in town.
The Visitor
2022 ‘El visitante’ Directed by Martín Boulocq
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11 Jun 2022
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El Visitante (2022) ~ 8.5/10
ESPAÑOL ~ SPANISH
Hoy tuve la fortuna suerte de poder ver “El Visitante” en cines, y fue un vieja de ida sin pasaje de vuelta, es una experiencia que uno le tiene que dar como mínimo la oportunidad.Esta película me dejo miles de cosas, y hablo visualmente, como también la historia que narra, los personajes, y te deja un fuerte y claro mensaje de la sociedad, es una obra de arte.
Para los que no conozcan esta película “El visitante”, es una película que transcurre en Bolivia, la cual narra la historia de un hombre que recién salió de la cárcel y lucha por un mejor futuro y la custodia de su hija, pero…
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Review by Eric Hillis
Like the recent Brazilian dramas Divine Love and Raquel 1:1, Bolivian filmmaker Martín Boulocq's The Visitor is another sideways glance at the growing influence of the evangelical church in South America. Where the aforementioned Brazilian films critiqued the church's misogyny, The Visitor exposes the hypocrisy of a church that preaches goodwill while refusing to extend its warmth to those attempting to make up for past sins.
After serving a three year prison sentence for an ambiguous crime seemingly spawned by his alcoholism, Humberto (Enrique Aráoz) returns to his hometown hoping to reestablish a relationship with his teenage daughter Aleida (Svet Mena). The girl now lives with her maternal grandparents, Carlos (César Troncoso) and Elizabeth (Mirella Pascual),…
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Tribeca@Home 2022
A solemn film about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter after his release from prison. It's slow moving but never boring and I particularly loved the use of sound from the opera singing to the painful creaking of a tree. One of those Sunday afternoon films where you can easily slip into the melancholy for 85 minutes.
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Tribeca 2022.
This is a movie that a lot of modern audiences wouldn’t have the patience for. We are given a character with a troubled past, yet we see no violence; there’s a rebellious daughter, but we don’t see her shenanigans; and there’s a corrupt church, but we don’t see it crumble. It’s slow and generally lacks dialogue; however, this movie still managed to engage with an examination of broken characters struggling to become whole.
It’s compelling in a subtle way. It’s specific and distant. I don’t know that I would recommend it because I think it’s for a specific type of person, but it’s certainly well-made.
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Si algo tienen en común los recientes asaltos a los poderes del Estado en Brasil (2023) y Estados Unidos (2021) es que ambos estuvieron impulsados y fomentados por líderes de las iglesias evangélicas, cercanas generalmente a posiciones de extrema derecha, que cuestionan los instrumentos democráticos siempre que no les favorezcan. La historia de esta película habla precisamente de las imposiciones de este tipo de religión que es absorbente y excluyente a través de uno de estos excluídos, Humberto (Enrique Araoz), quien acaba de salir de la cárcel por una razón que no se explica y tuvo un pasado alcohólico que provocó que su hija Aleida (Avet Mena) acabara siendo acogida por sus abuelos Carlos (César Troncoso), un pastor de una…
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Tribeca #3
We are all powerless and life is hard.
Some people choose the bottle, others the needle. Some people embrace the futility of effort and fall complacent in the arms of the lord. Still, others fight and claw their way out of the pit of despair, only to find that just as it is bottomless, there's no hole at the top to climb out of.
We are all Powerless and Life is Hard.
Some people have bad days and others have bad years. Some people make mistakes and are forgiven, others are punished and can never earn back the trust of their loved ones. Still, others are prevented from ever earning their salvation due to the discretion of those,…
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tribeca at home 2022 #6
a slow burn about people abusing other people for better things where all roads lead to religion with a great lead performance.
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An understated yet stirring drama. There's a great script that's easy on the dialogue and smart with its peaks inside the lead character's return home. Love the locked-off shots with action unfolding and an emphasis on tableaus and framing characters against their environment. Appreciate the removed and suspicious look at religion. It's great how opera and tragedy are woven into the well directed and well told story.
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Just released from prison after serving several years for a never specified conviction, Humberto tries to reestablish himself in the community and, more importantly, in his teenage daughter's life. The girl is in the charge of her mother's wealthy parents, who reign over a lucrative evangelical church. Her mother, one suspects, killed herself at some time in the past, suffering from depression. To maximize access to his daughter and soon, he hopes, gain custody of her, Humberto, who is a fine, in-demand operatic singer of songs at funerals, reluctantly professes faith he clearly doesn't hold and grudgingly participates in his in-law's church. Eager to improve his circumstances and position himself to reclaim his daughter he also launches a phone card…
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Loved the confident, sparse editing (less is indeed more.) Ending was unsatisfying, but I sure enjoyed the ride.
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This peaks at the moment where our protagonist zones out of a bullshit religious service and fantasises singing Nessun Dorma instead. I feel that, buddy, I was just about zoning out too.