Ana and Dora organize a “party” at the family's farm. Ana goes through a difficult phase after breaking up with her unfaithful boyfriend Dino, an actor who always returns from “rehearsals” at four in the morning and tries to clear his head at the time. Dora is an insatiable girl who likes lively parties. The guests arrive and the bacchanal begins, but without the participation of Ana, who is not as enthusiastic about collective sex as her friend and prefers to enjoy her cesspool in the quiet garden. Then, here's Mauro, an ex-priest who is Dora's cousin and who appears at the farm to rethink his own religious life at a time of vocational crisis.
"The Haunting of Hill House" isn't your typical horror story. Based on a novel by Shirley Jackson, Netflix's masterpiece and limited horror series takes you on a emotional rollercoaster ride, by turning our perception of mental illness on its head. It's an unforgettable story about a loveable family, who grapples with tragedy and love after living at the foreboding Hill House.
The 2019 film, Vai, takes us through eight stories across the islands of Oceania. The settings are unbelievably beautiful, the cast is beautiful, the languages are beautiful, and the stories are beautiful…but heartbreaking.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
Treated like a granter of wishes for those earning out of retelling the same tragedy, Marilyn looks like she's caged in different stages of trauma for us to stare at, instead of someone we’ve finally allowed to rest in peace.
Disney's live-action remake is vibrant and beautiful, with updated music and classic enthusiasm, but it fails to push the envelope and provide nuance for Ursula.
