Cinema favors melodrama, and so fathers and children often engage in big arguments and reconciliations on screen. Writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s In the Summers manages a singularly painful approach to this subject matter, as it’s less concerned with a great fracture than an ongoing erosion. The film has its harrowing moments, but no episode is coded as the moment of fissure in this family. The father keeps doing what he does, his eccentricities and liabilities growing more tedious and negligent, and the children’s love is gradually tempered with frustration, anger, resentment, and, most poignantly, pity.
Setting her film across four summer visits over a period of 20 years, Lacorazza Samudio manages the illusion of capturing a man’s diminishment in something like real time. At the beginning of each episode, we see Vicente (Renè Pérez Joglar) picking up his daughters, Violet and Eva, in front of the small airport in Las Cruces,...
Setting her film across four summer visits over a period of 20 years, Lacorazza Samudio manages the illusion of capturing a man’s diminishment in something like real time. At the beginning of each episode, we see Vicente (Renè Pérez Joglar) picking up his daughters, Violet and Eva, in front of the small airport in Las Cruces,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Chuck Bowen
- Slant Magazine
A backyard swimming pool tells part of the story in Colombian American writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s “In the Summers.” As it goes from refreshing site of joyful congregation to an ignored eyesore in mounting disrepair, the recreational amenity establishes itself as a potently grave motif for the passage of time in this unsentimental, and yet immensely affecting debut feature about a complicated parent-children relationship. Told in four elliptical segments, it spans roughly two decades.
Grammy-winning, Puerto Rican urban music hitmaker René Pérez Joglar (better known by his stage name Residente), part of the now defunct duo Calle 13, stars as Vicente. The nonchalant dad lives alone in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a sleepy desert town with a predominantly Latino population. With a cigarette over his ear and much eagerness, he picks up his daughters Violeta and Eva (played as children by Dreya Castillo and Luciana Elisa Quinonez), in from California for summer vacation,...
Grammy-winning, Puerto Rican urban music hitmaker René Pérez Joglar (better known by his stage name Residente), part of the now defunct duo Calle 13, stars as Vicente. The nonchalant dad lives alone in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a sleepy desert town with a predominantly Latino population. With a cigarette over his ear and much eagerness, he picks up his daughters Violeta and Eva (played as children by Dreya Castillo and Luciana Elisa Quinonez), in from California for summer vacation,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Variety Film + TV
What is the Sundance Film Festival outside of Park City?
Sundance Institute CEO Joanna Vicente has addressed the possibility of a move for the Sundance Film Festival out of Park City, where it has taken place since the early ’80s.
Vicente was the surprise guest at the live-taping of Puck founding partner Matt Belloni‘s Ringer podcast The Town. During the wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything from the Netflix acquisition of Fair Play to the five-year plan for the festival, Belloni asked Vicente about the state of negotiations for staying in Park City.
“Park City is part of Sundance,” Vicente answered. “It’s a beautiful location. It’s kind of remote. We get immersed into the festival.” At that point, Belloni interjected to say, “I feel a but coming,” adding that in his conversations with Uber drivers, restaurant employees and ski industry insiders, “They don’t like Sundance.”
“No,...
Sundance Institute CEO Joanna Vicente has addressed the possibility of a move for the Sundance Film Festival out of Park City, where it has taken place since the early ’80s.
Vicente was the surprise guest at the live-taping of Puck founding partner Matt Belloni‘s Ringer podcast The Town. During the wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything from the Netflix acquisition of Fair Play to the five-year plan for the festival, Belloni asked Vicente about the state of negotiations for staying in Park City.
“Park City is part of Sundance,” Vicente answered. “It’s a beautiful location. It’s kind of remote. We get immersed into the festival.” At that point, Belloni interjected to say, “I feel a but coming,” adding that in his conversations with Uber drivers, restaurant employees and ski industry insiders, “They don’t like Sundance.”
“No,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Chris Gardner and Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The countdown to 2024 Sundance Film Festival begins.
The leading indie film festival returns in person for 2024, taking place January 18 through 28 in Park City, Utah. The 2024 Sundance edition will celebrate the festival’s 40th anniversary, with a robust selection of films available online in addition to the in-person screenings.
The program full of discovery and cinematic expression will comprise feature films, short films, episodic, and innovative storytelling in New Frontier. Submissions for 2024 Sundance open May 11, with the programming team screening submissions for consideration collected via FilmFreeway.
For Features, the early deadline to submit is August 11, the official deadline is September 4, and the late deadline is September 25.
For Shorts, the early deadline is July 31, the official deadline is August 18, and the late deadline is September 4.
For Episodic, the early deadline is August 7, the official deadline is September 1, and the late deadline is September 18.
For New Frontier, the early deadline is August 4, the...
The leading indie film festival returns in person for 2024, taking place January 18 through 28 in Park City, Utah. The 2024 Sundance edition will celebrate the festival’s 40th anniversary, with a robust selection of films available online in addition to the in-person screenings.
The program full of discovery and cinematic expression will comprise feature films, short films, episodic, and innovative storytelling in New Frontier. Submissions for 2024 Sundance open May 11, with the programming team screening submissions for consideration collected via FilmFreeway.
For Features, the early deadline to submit is August 11, the official deadline is September 4, and the late deadline is September 25.
For Shorts, the early deadline is July 31, the official deadline is August 18, and the late deadline is September 4.
For Episodic, the early deadline is August 7, the official deadline is September 1, and the late deadline is September 18.
For New Frontier, the early deadline is August 4, the...
- 5/11/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
They didn't reinvent the wheel here by placing an Intelligence unit member in peril for the umpteenth time.
But many parts of Chicago Pd Season 10 Episode 20 played out like an action movie befitting of the series' version of "Action Barbie" as Hailey fought for her life during a particularly dark and gory situation.
And by the end of the hour, after many Jay mentions, she realizes it is time to give up the fight for her marriage with Halstead.
The hour was dark, grim, and incredibly gory. Hailey spent much of the hour covered in blood, slip-sliding in it halfway through and looking like the protagonist in an action thriller by the installment's end.
They had fun with all the blood packets, and the severed hand was especially gnarly.
But amid all the grimness as Hailey found herself in a dire situation, everything went back to and reflected on Hailey and her marriage to Halstead.
But many parts of Chicago Pd Season 10 Episode 20 played out like an action movie befitting of the series' version of "Action Barbie" as Hailey fought for her life during a particularly dark and gory situation.
And by the end of the hour, after many Jay mentions, she realizes it is time to give up the fight for her marriage with Halstead.
The hour was dark, grim, and incredibly gory. Hailey spent much of the hour covered in blood, slip-sliding in it halfway through and looking like the protagonist in an action thriller by the installment's end.
They had fun with all the blood packets, and the severed hand was especially gnarly.
But amid all the grimness as Hailey found herself in a dire situation, everything went back to and reflected on Hailey and her marriage to Halstead.
- 5/11/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
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