Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than he cares to remember, the film itself was inspired by Sariñana's personal experience with urban crime oftentimes perpetrated by the police themselves (Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide).
Historias de fútbol portrays the life, love, and passion involved in soccer, one of the twentieth century’s most important rituals, through the lives of three different characters. The star player of a small neighborhood team from Santiago de Chile is offered a bribe and the possibility of playing professional football. A boy from Northern Chile wins a classic neighborhood pichanga football contest. In the process, however, he loses the few pesos he had gained from pawning one of his mother’s last items of value. A kid from the city finds himself stranded in a remote corner of the southern island of Chiloé on the day of the World Cup qualifying match for the Chilean National team. The only television in the area is at the house of the old Serón sisters, where the kid finds himself in the middle of more than he bargained for.
A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes obvious that the bus everyone was waiting for has left them high and dry. While one of the would-be passengers, Emilio, uses his downtime to win the affections of the beautiful Jacqueline, most of the rest decide that if they're stuck without anywhere to go, they might as well make the station a better place to wait, and they begin forming a plan to turn the decrepit bus terminal into a showplace that people would look forward to visiting.
Año 1993. Una guagua rota en una terminal de ómnibus. Emilio, Jacqueline y el resto de los protagonistas de esta historia, en el afán de buscar soluciones, no sin contratiempos, hacen más cálidas sus relaciones, trabajan por el bienestar de todos y cumplen sueños aplazados por los agobios de la vida cotidiana. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOztEsyv2M
Director : Juan Antonio Bayona Executive producer : Guillermo Del Toro 2008.
Plot summary:
The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive and tells Laura that he has five invisible friends, and she believes they are fruit of his imagination. Laura decides to reopen an orphanage for handicapped children in the location and during the opening party, Simón calls her to show the little cabin of his friend Tomás. The busy Laura does not gives much attention to her son; then she sees a mysterious masked boy and Simón vanishes. Laura feels the presence of other persons in the house and months later, the desperate Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery.
LA TRAMA.
Laura vuelve 30 años después al Orfanato, en el que estuvo, con el objetivo de convertir el edificio en un centro de acogida pra niños discapacitados, tarea que piensa hacer con la ayuda de su marido y en compañía de su hijo de 7 años Simón.
El edificio ya de por sí, dá bastante miedo, y como he leído en otros comentarios de esta película tiene bastante similitud con la película los Otros, nos encontramos con una ambientación de Asturias, bastante siniestra.
La trama empieza con los amigos invisibles de Simón, de repente y en cuanto entra en la casa, los cambia por nuevos amigos, que van a ser el eje de la trama, obviamente no me gusta destripar películas y menos a estas alturas, así que poco más voy a contar, desde luego la música y el saber que la película en mayor o menor medida es de terror, provocará en nosotros mucha ansiedad y que nos llevemos más de un susto.
Un novio para mi mujer (A Boyfriend for my wife). Argentina.Friday Oct. 9
La vida es silbar (Life is to whistle). Cuba.Friday Oct. 23
Historias de fútbol(Soccer stories)Chile.Friday Nov. 6
Todo el poder (Give me the power). México.Friday Nov. 20
**All movies are O.V (Spanish) with English subtitles. All movies will be screened at 7:00 pm at UC 30**
miércoles, 21 de enero de 2009
DESPABILATE AMOR - WAKE UP LOVE 23 DE ENERO - JANUARY 23
Un hombre con nostalgias de su época de adolescente ha descubierto en el rock que practica todos los días un remedio contra el envejecimiento. Quiere volver a ver a su antigua barra de amigos y pone en marcha el encuentro. Les propone un asalto como los de antes. Así llega a dar con Ernesto, un periodista cuarentón, ex militante y ex exiliado que anda detrás de una misteriosa cubana. El film muestra dos caras: la evocación nostálgica y el retrato actual de los personajes de ayer colmado de emoción.
A man with nostalgia of his time of adolescent is shortage discovered a a remedy against the aging in the rock that he practices every day . He wants to return to see his old friends and starts up the encounter. He proposes a party to them like those of before. Thus he gets to give with Ernesto, a middle age journalist, ex- exiled ex- militant and who walks behind a mysterious Cuban girl. The film shows two faces: the nostalgic evocation and the present picture of the characters of yesterday with a lot of emotion.
