This Week In Trailers: The Problem With Apu, I Am Not a Witch, Bad Lucky Goat, A River Below, Sylvio
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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- 10/14/2017
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
In Colombian director and School of Visual Arts (NYC) alum Samir Oliveros’ feature film debut “Bad Lucky Goat” (aka “When The Well Runs Dry”), two teen siblings embark on a journey of reconciliation after accidentally killing a bearded goat… Continue Reading →...
- 4/10/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Dominican Republic drama wins Yellow Robin Award at festival.
The Watchman (El hombre que cuida) by Alejandro Andújar (Dominican Republic) won the Yellow Robin Award at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which wrapped its sixth edition yesterday (April 9).
Andujar’s debut feature is about a young man, recently separated from his wife, who is a watchman at a rich man’s villa; his peace is interrupted when the rich man’s son arrives with his spoiled friends.
The international jury praised the film for tackling “universal issues of race and class, of youth, loyalty and sex in a Caribbean setting”.
They said: “Atmosphere and pace are strong, and the jury was particularly impressed by the brooding lead actor who radiates both the captivity of his personal struggles and that of his confined place in society, in this case the luxury villa he has to take care of when the owner’s spoiled son brings friends and trouble...
The Watchman (El hombre que cuida) by Alejandro Andújar (Dominican Republic) won the Yellow Robin Award at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which wrapped its sixth edition yesterday (April 9).
Andujar’s debut feature is about a young man, recently separated from his wife, who is a watchman at a rich man’s villa; his peace is interrupted when the rich man’s son arrives with his spoiled friends.
The international jury praised the film for tackling “universal issues of race and class, of youth, loyalty and sex in a Caribbean setting”.
They said: “Atmosphere and pace are strong, and the jury was particularly impressed by the brooding lead actor who radiates both the captivity of his personal struggles and that of his confined place in society, in this case the luxury villa he has to take care of when the owner’s spoiled son brings friends and trouble...
- 4/10/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film premiered to political acclaim at SXSW.
Paris-based Luxbox has acquired world sales rights to Colombian director Samir Oliveros’s SXSW hit comedy Bad Lucky Goat.
Set against the backdrop of a Colombian Caribbean island, the comedy revolves around a farcical 24-hour adventure set in a motion when two warring teenage siblings accidentally kill a bearded goat with their father’s truck.
They set off on a journey of reconciliation across the island, attempting to raise the money to repair the truck in time to pick up a group of tourists staying at their family’s hotel. The story brings them into a contact with a host of colourful characters, from Rastafarian drum-makers to the local witch-doctor.
“We’re extremely happy to handle this charming and fresh Caribbean-set story driven by energy,” said Luxbox co-chiefs Fiorella Moretti and Hedi Zardi.
“We were immediately seduced by Oliveros’ colorful mise-en-scene and natural sense of rhythm in this adventure...
Paris-based Luxbox has acquired world sales rights to Colombian director Samir Oliveros’s SXSW hit comedy Bad Lucky Goat.
Set against the backdrop of a Colombian Caribbean island, the comedy revolves around a farcical 24-hour adventure set in a motion when two warring teenage siblings accidentally kill a bearded goat with their father’s truck.
They set off on a journey of reconciliation across the island, attempting to raise the money to repair the truck in time to pick up a group of tourists staying at their family’s hotel. The story brings them into a contact with a host of colourful characters, from Rastafarian drum-makers to the local witch-doctor.
“We’re extremely happy to handle this charming and fresh Caribbean-set story driven by energy,” said Luxbox co-chiefs Fiorella Moretti and Hedi Zardi.
“We were immediately seduced by Oliveros’ colorful mise-en-scene and natural sense of rhythm in this adventure...
- 4/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
“Most Beautiful Island”
A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, “Most Beautiful Island” was a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature, and might prove to be a breakthrough moment for a major new talent: Spanish actress Ana Asensio not only wrote, directed, and produced this fraught metropolitan thriller, she also appears in just about every frame.
It would be criminal to reveal too much about what happens to her character, a Manhattan immigrant who’s struggling to make a life for herself in the big city and in for the longest night of her life, but it’s thrilling to watch the anxiety of neo-realism as it slowly bleeds into something that resembles the suspense of the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut.” Creating a lucid sense of reality only so...
A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, “Most Beautiful Island” was a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature, and might prove to be a breakthrough moment for a major new talent: Spanish actress Ana Asensio not only wrote, directed, and produced this fraught metropolitan thriller, she also appears in just about every frame.
It would be criminal to reveal too much about what happens to her character, a Manhattan immigrant who’s struggling to make a life for herself in the big city and in for the longest night of her life, but it’s thrilling to watch the anxiety of neo-realism as it slowly bleeds into something that resembles the suspense of the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut.” Creating a lucid sense of reality only so...
- 3/18/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
There’s a whiff of The Gods Must Be Crazy whimsy wafting through Bad Lucky Goat, an affably quirky debut feature by Bogota, Colombia-based Samir Oliveros.
Filmed in the verdant Colombian Caribbean, this satirical yarn about the bad juju that is unleashed after a pair of quibbling siblings inadvertently run over an ill-fated goat unfolds with a storyteller’s eye for small details and surreal asides.
Sent out in their father’s truck to pick up guests headed for their family’s hotel, typical teens Cornelius “Corn” Denton (Honlenny Huffington) and his older sister Rita (Kiara Howard) are too busy bickering to notice the bearded...
Filmed in the verdant Colombian Caribbean, this satirical yarn about the bad juju that is unleashed after a pair of quibbling siblings inadvertently run over an ill-fated goat unfolds with a storyteller’s eye for small details and surreal asides.
Sent out in their father’s truck to pick up guests headed for their family’s hotel, typical teens Cornelius “Corn” Denton (Honlenny Huffington) and his older sister Rita (Kiara Howard) are too busy bickering to notice the bearded...
- 3/17/2017
- by Michael Rechtshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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