27.04 @ 22.30h CEST CAMBIO DE HORA / Todo lo demás (2016, Natalia Almada)

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* disponible en https://www.cinematropical.com/everything-else

EVERYTHING ELSE / TODO LO DEMÁSA film by Natalia Almada
(Mexico, 2016, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Selected as one of the best films of the year (Amy Taubin, Artforum), and winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival, Everything Else stars Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza (Amores Perros, Babel) as Doña Flor, a 63-year-old bureaucrat living in Mexico City.
Natalia Almada's debut fiction film explores the interior life of Doña Flor as she awakens from her bureaucratic malaise and yearns to become visible again. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s idea that bureaucratic dehumanization is a brutal form of violence, the story ultimately becomes a mesmerizing contemplation on solitude.

TODO LO DEMÁS de Natalia Almada | Entrevista - YouTube

A beautiful film! Highly recommended as an exercise in empathy and the poetics of minimalist cinema. Yet, there was something I found disappointing, pessimistic, and false about it...as if filmed through the distorted lens of depression, casting out all of life's effervescence and possibility...a glass half-empty sort of film. Can its pessimism be explained as a rage against the slow violence of city life and bureaucratic work?

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