Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's THE PLATFORM (2019)

I'm told that quitting smoking really sucks, 
But so much that you'd choose to undergo
A treatment such as this, that gets you stuck
In Kafka's, Sade's and Howey's nightmare, though?
A tour through greed and hunger, mistrust, fear
And haute cuisine, where trigger warnings must
Abound! To say this film is somewhat weird
Is to opine that Dune involves some dust. 
The allegory's heavy, and I look
To soon be spending time exploring names 
As though this were a brutal Gene Wolfe book.
At any rate, it lives up to the claims
You're hearing, both admiring and annoyed. 
And so a little bit more faith's destroyed...

Friday, July 27, 2018

Victor Erice's THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Spain, 1973)


This could become a fav'rite. No effects
Or special sets were needed, just a child
Immersed in her imaginary texts,
In Frankenstein, in spirit stories, wild
Yet simple. Warm and golden Spanish light
And perfect little actors, and, yes, bees
And mushrooms, it's from these things in the night
As spun out by her sister, Ana sees
Her own world's monsters, in the only sense
That she can make of them. Her world is small
And something new has entered it, intense
And scary? Maybe. But you must recall
The little girl with daisies made a friend
In that film. All is balanced in the end.

Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)

Some movies are for looking at, and I'd Say this is one, for ev'ry gorgeous frame Would look great on my wall. All that ...