ART-ZINE REFLECT


REFLECT... КУАДУСЕШЩТ # 19 ::: ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ


Tatiana BELKINA. Apostille on two of Latino Film Fest movies



aвтор визуальной работы - Elvina Zeltsman, Rafael Levchin.



I’ve been lucky to see two movies within the lovely framework of 25th Annual Chicago Latino Film Fest - Columbian “Sin Amparo” (2004; dir. Jaime O. Gomez) and Puerto Rican “Una Historia Comun” (2004; dir. Sonia Fritz). There was quite a distance between art levels of them. The first one turned out to be almost perfect for me, to the extend when the faults, if any, could be not more than forgivable losses of a perfection pursuit. The other one appeared to be thoroughly bad, so that even the possible merits, if any, could be not more than flukes.
“Sin Amparo” bears a rather implausible plot artistically well justified though, while that mundane story of “Una Historia Comun” (“Everyday Story”) is garnished with artificial details up to the point of an apocryph. Oddly enough both movies claim to be based on real events! (Obiter dictum: “real story” is an issue of significant importance for Latino cinematograph. This reminds me that for decent Ukrainian peasants – most devoted audience of Latino soap-operas I’ve ever seen – “It’s a true story!” was the best quality mark). So, again, that both are true stories, but one is more true than another.
“Sin Amparo” – without Amparo (a beautiful woman who died in an accident) – live now two men, a husband and a lover of hers, who have never met during Amparo’s lifetime. In an anguish of their loss they try to get known her now – however late it is - through that antipodal, impossible, irreconcilable world of one another. They’d have come to some form of reconciliation though, because Amparo stays between them like a hyper, letting neither to part nor to converge.
In “Everyday story” a number of female characters accurately corresponds to a number of male ones, so it’s all only about redistribution. He and She live peacefully on a tropical island (among other people, men and women as well). But then one more man and one more woman arrive, which, it seems, completely destroys a fragile demographical balance of the island, and the redistribution starts. Why people made all that fuss remains unclear. Seems that just of a fuss.
“Sin Amparo” leaves its audience with a mystery: how much of that gigantic mysterious Amparo’s Terra Incognita will remain undiscovered, indecipherable forever. “Everyday story” supposed, I believe, to not torture spectators with unanswered questions. Still, there is one… The main actress – a meeting with whom was gracefully organized after the movie – turned out to be a young, pretty and fit woman. How on Earth (and why) they managed to make her 10 years older and 20 pounds heavier and absolutely unattractive on a screen – that’s a mystery, compare to which all the Amparo’s secrets are baby-talk…
It’s my pleasure to add to the aforesaid that the Festival’s organization was perfect, the hospitality of the personal was limitless and the sponsors’ generosity left the warmest memories. I can only regret now that I did not do my best to watch more. Good or not such, these not-quite-American movies will not be on the local movie theaters’ fore. Let’s wait for the next Chicago Annual Latino Film Fest.








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