September 27, 2009

La ventana/The Window

I think "La ventana/the window" was a very weird film experience for me. I kept thinking "is really something going to happen?" (maybe not the best thought when watching a movie). I guess this feeling was due to the really slow rh ...ythm and very scarce dialogues, not to say the lack of any action at all. However, I was surprised that I did not get bored and turned the movie off. I am very tolerant with slow movies, but this ones was very very slow. However, despise the slowness, this movie was so beautiful in its meditative mode, and the main character's performance so engaging too, that I liked it for exactly the same reasons that could make it boring. And also, I kind of realized there was not much more that you could expect from a movie that wants to get across the contemplative disposition of someone who is at the very end of his life.

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