Friday 9 May 2014

Nacido y Criado

(2006)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD



[Born and Bred]

A weak offering from someone who seems chronically unable to get under the skin of his characters. Director Pablo Trapero is mired in stories that do not reflect his own experience and so do not grab you by the throat with their authenticity.

A movie essentially about self-indulgently crying over spilt milk as the result of a fatal, yet avoidable, accident. This one fails to pack the necessary emotional punch one would expect and leaves us outsiders to the tremendous emotional upheaval that the accident depicted must have wrought. The evidence for this upheaval is scanty, despite the technical quality and the very good acting on offer.

This film simply does not explain why some people grieve successfully (rather than bottling-up their emotions) to their own detriment and that of those they claim to love.


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