The Sitges festival begins and we have already been able to see Memories of a Caracol by Adam Elliot, The Moon Thieves by Steve Yuen and Bury Your Dead by Marco Dutra

First day, Sitges begins. My first big film festival that I don’t participate in as an audience and also one of the most important in Spain and fantasy cinema. The pressure is a bit big, being a beginner and getting lost in the streets looking for rooms or not knowing how long it takes between the Prado and the Melía and I have two sessions almost in a row in each room so I don’t know if it will be time to run (ends up about 12 minutes late going very fast, I don’t recommend it). So many questions, but the nice thing is that I saw the first two films at the Prado and what a great experience it was to enter that place which conveys a special air.

The first film I saw at the Prado was Memories of a snaila stop motion work by Adam Elliot, director of Mary and Max. In her new film she tells us about Grace’s memories from when she was born and her curious dedication to collecting snail figurines. The protagonist will tell us about her life, made up of more misfortunes than joys, but with a lot of fun. In this work, Elliot stands out for having narrated several very tragic events in Grace’s life, but bringing them to the most tender point as they happen in the eyes of the protagonist.

Besides The director’s animation style strongly supports the idea of ​​good in all evil with very dull tones, but which sometimes reveal a bit of light. And always maintaining a very important speech on the importance given to life and on letting everyone live as they want.

After the good feelings I had with Memories of a snail I queued again at the Prado to see The thieves of the moona film about a robbery in Hong Kong and which was presented by its director and a little ruined, since he told us the case on which the film was based, but he makes up for it. Steve Yuen’s film tells the story of a group of thieves who travel to Japan to obtain three very special watches made by Picasso.but the plan may change when they also encounter the first clock to reach the Moon.

The thieves of the moon It doesn’t offer anything new for the genre, but it works perfectly thanks to the cast and the very dynamic editing. The comparison with the saga is obvious Of the ocean and with the total coincidence that Soderbergh also presented a film at the festival. Even if it repeats the character scheme that explains things as they happen on the screen, it manages to have its own charisma with a team of very funny and well-defined characters, as usually happens in this genre.

Finally the moment of the race arrived, as I already underlined at the beginning and that was that I had to go from the Cinema Prado to the Hotel Melía to the Tramuntana room, to which we must add a small mistake that I ended up taking somewhere else, but I had time to see the Brazilian Bury your dead by Marco Dutra. Dutra tells us what the daily work is like for Edgar Wilson (Selton Mello), a body collector in a dystopian Brazil that seems close to the end of the world..

The director begins with an incredible scene that puts the viewer in the situation very well. and with very little you immediately meet the protagonist, played by un Selton Mello very content and without grand gestures for almost the entire film. But while it presents concepts such as the alleged religion created by the future apocalypse and other ideas that we prefer not to reveal, The film drags until it fails to wrap up many plots and ideas and although it wants to surprise with some things, in the end it ends up feeling a little forced.

This is how the first day of the Sitges Film Festival ended, with great emotions and a great desire to continue exploring the different corners of the city, to talk about the next films that will be seen in the next few days and those that I am sure will end up surprising. .