CineVegas 2008
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South of Heaven
By Josh Bell
South of Heaven opens with a buoyant animated credits sequence that promises something akin to a ’60s caper movie, and then quickly devolves into a repetitive, irritating and pointless stylistic exercise, winking so heavily at its ironic use of genre elements from spaghetti Westerns and film noir that it’s nearly an insult to the scrappy B-movies from which it allegedly takes its inspiration. Read more...
Deficit
Pity Bernal wasn’t on hand for a post-film Q&A (seems the Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries and Science of Sleep star is attending a wedding in Spain this weekend), as Deficit is a film worth discussing—and rewatching—at length. Read more...
Visioneers
Though momentum begins to falter two-thirds of the way through the movie and the storyline is a bit shaky, Zach Galifianakis’ brilliantly understated performance in Visioneers saves the film from getting carried away on its own flights of … not fancy, exactly, but something more akin to enforced apathy. Read more...
¿Donde Estan Sus Historias?
Those who avoid foreign films because they don’t like reading subtitles have nothing to fear from ¿Donde Estan Sus Historias? (Where are Their Stories?). There are only a handful of lines in the entire film, and you could easily ignore everyone who speaks without losing the plot. There’s no plot to speak of. This movie takes minimalism to the max. Read more...
Big Heart City
ambling addict Frank (Andrews) gets his girlfriend pregnant, loses a lot of money at the racetrack and goes out to sea to fish for crab for six months. When he returns, his girlfriend is gone (surprise!). His best friend happens to be gone, too. Can you guess why they’re both gone at the same time? Read more...
Wellness
“Wellness represents a huge paradigm shift in American healthcare,” Thomas Lindsay (Jeff Clark) explains to people throughout the film Wellness, when pitching the titular product/regimen/system. “It’s all-natural, FDA-approved,” he continues, “um … helps the flow of … electrodes in your brain … gives you regular bowel movements with better … uh, shape … and is the first product to ever be distributed globally.” Read more...
She Unfolds By Day
Director Rolf Belgum has a curious eye, and a curious imagination, so it stands to reason that She Unfolds By Day is a curious film. Ostensibly, it’s a documentary about dealing with his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s. Except that it isn’t. Read more...
Ano Una
By Tasha Chemplavil
Part of CineVegas’s La Próxima Ola showcase of new Mexican filmmakers, Jónas Cuarón’s Año Uña (The Year of the Nail) is an experimental film in which the director follows the relationship between a young Mexican boy and his older American love interest. But instead of using motion pictures, Cuarón chooses to tell his story through a succession of still photographs. Read more...
