Luis Velasco
Life and Color (2005) is the first feature from writer and journalist Santiago Tabernero, who conducted between 1998 and 2003 several chapters of English version, present a program on English cinema. In this film, the director tries to get into the life of a small community on the eve of Franco's death, so that the socio-political context becomes one more of the power lines that develop between the characters, who Fede live as lives, the young protagonist, full of desires, longings and desires. As a story of "initiation", they narrated the difficulties faced Fede has to find himself, runs the risk of becoming absurd or very superficial, and when he was a novice director aware of the risks, seems to have gone it safe for not risking much, which ultimately did not help him to translate a work to fall and settle under its own weight.
Any operator who has had direct contact with an event as strong as a civil war, will want at some point tell from their own perspective and it is precisely here that we find the first empty in the history of film Tabernero, it is becoming something terribly everyday and the few symbols arranged along the film lacked a truly unifying sense, the talks do not reach high points and all that is said about Franco and his death seemed excuse to make certain characters had a line in the movie. In the same way conflicts are scattered and it had great potential, no one gets enough to gain credibility. I think it's much more effective to work on an idea that works in a context that only in the context, because for a lot of nostalgia or expressive needs you have, this will not do much by itself.
Symbol perhaps we will see stronger through Fede sticker album and the final decision making to complete, it is what we did all the companies involved with a dictatorship after it: we managed as we could.
Life and Color is a nice easy film to watch, but for that facility which contains his account of naive and predictable sins, begins and ends with the same smoothness with which remains floating without actually landing. It would be very hasty to say that even has a happy ending, because the conflict did not catch us enough to reach the final five minutes craving one. It will certainly be more salvageable in the technical aspect film, as well as editing are impeccable sound design and photography by José Luis Alcaine (13 Roses, Volver, Bad Education, etc..) is worthy of note.
Any operator who has had direct contact with an event as strong as a civil war, will want at some point tell from their own perspective and it is precisely here that we find the first empty in the history of film Tabernero, it is becoming something terribly everyday and the few symbols arranged along the film lacked a truly unifying sense, the talks do not reach high points and all that is said about Franco and his death seemed excuse to make certain characters had a line in the movie. In the same way conflicts are scattered and it had great potential, no one gets enough to gain credibility. I think it's much more effective to work on an idea that works in a context that only in the context, because for a lot of nostalgia or expressive needs you have, this will not do much by itself.
Symbol perhaps we will see stronger through Fede sticker album and the final decision making to complete, it is what we did all the companies involved with a dictatorship after it: we managed as we could.
Life and Color is a nice easy film to watch, but for that facility which contains his account of naive and predictable sins, begins and ends with the same smoothness with which remains floating without actually landing. It would be very hasty to say that even has a happy ending, because the conflict did not catch us enough to reach the final five minutes craving one. It will certainly be more salvageable in the technical aspect film, as well as editing are impeccable sound design and photography by José Luis Alcaine (13 Roses, Volver, Bad Education, etc..) is worthy of note.
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