For another week, cinema billboards are again full of all kinds of premieres. This time everything vibrates to the sounds of very smart primates Planet of the Apes. But along with them there is also love, western, historical drama and revenge. A mixture of genres, thanks to which a wide variety of audiences come to Spanish theaters in search of their own special form of escapism. At Hipertextual, these are the five films we recommend, depending on the taste of whoever is reading them.
Great premieres
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes This is the tenth installment in the franchise, although the fourth in the recent saga. The film takes place several generations after the events of the prequel trilogy, released between 2011 and 2017. Stop is No, a young chimpanzee who goes on an adventure to find his kidnapped family. Along the way he will meet a man May and he learns that the true nature of his world is much larger than he thinks. Before them is terrible Proximus Caesardictator of the monkey empire.
The film is especially recommended for several reasons. Firstly, it inherits the legacy of one of the strongest trilogies of the last decade. In addition, he predicts a very likely future with a large number of deliveries that will end with a new adaptation Planet of the Apes. And above all, because it is an adventure film with a technical part, which is rarely seen in cinemas. On a visual level, although more subtle and with less of a sense of spectacle, it is on the level of works such as Avatar or Dunewith hyper-realistic monkeys recreated digitally.
Rivals
Those less interested in adventure and action films can enjoy one of the juicier releases in recent months. Luca GuadagninoDirector Call me by your namereturns to cinema with Rivals show a hot, toxic, intense and very sexy love triangle involving Zendaya, Mike Feist And Josh O’Connor. As if that weren’t enough, it takes the game into the world of professional tennis, from which it even borrows the narrative structure of the sets.
Story Rivals follow Tashi, who showed great promise in world tennis in his youth. An injury interrupted her career, but she eventually became Art’s coach and wife. Donaldson, whom he elevates to the highest level. But in a crisis of confidence, they decide to sign up for the Challenger tournament, the second lowest category, to win games and restore morale. There they meet Patrick Zweigex best friend Art, who did not reach the level that was expected of him in his youth. The presence of this stray bullet forces the three to relive many moments from their passionate past. One of the best films of all of 2024 so far.
Alternative offers
Until the end of the world
The most classic option this week in cinema: Until the end of the world. This Western, directed, written and starring Viggo Mortensen follows the classical norms of the genre, drawing inspiration from such masters as John Ford, Howard Hawks and company. But he does it by giving it a little twist. Instead of following a fearless man with a thirst for adventure, the film focuses on a housewife.
Vivienne Le Coudy is a woman who decides to travel with a man to the western United States in the 19th century. Thus begins a beautiful love story, which is interrupted when he decides to go to battle in the Civil War. She is left alone and must fend for herself to succeed, but not without life’s many failures that push her to her breaking point. A contemplative film with a lot of drive.
Italian (Cabrini)
Another great alternative movie offering this week is also a period drama starring a woman and her point of view. About this Mexican Alejandro Monteverde brings to the screen themes such as the cosmopolitan sexism of the late 19th century, as well as the anti-Italianism that arose in New York during the period of European migration. All this is framed in a shocking true story.
Italian (Cabrini) tells a story about Mother Francesca Cabrini.. This Catholic missionary was sent on the advice of the Pope to New York in 1889. There, together with her sisters, she must try to help poor Italian children, marginalized by a society that leaves them completely behind. Little by little, as he learns about what life is like in the underworld of the World Capital, Francesca begins to grow and build a better world for his protégés. A true enterprising woman who founded the Sisterhood of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Spanish cinema
Baby
Without a doubt, the wildest story of the entire week in cinema has a Spanish signature. Andrea Harrieta he dares in his second film, Babystarring intense revenge Patricia Lopez Arnaiz. A style exercise also reminiscent of Almodóvar this is to Hitchcock or western. This is certainly one of the most interesting local offerings this year: it was nominated for the Biznaga de Oro award at the Malaga festival and won the critics’ prize in this competition.
The main character of the film is Baby, a woman who returns to the coastal town where she grew up. He does this with a shotgun in his bag and with the goal of revenge. Pedro, a writer to whom people pay tribute. It is there, in this reconnection with his past and his origins, that he will have to reconsider whether the path he is about to take is the only one possible.
Source: Hiper Textual
