On the second day of the Sitges Festival we saw Exhuma by Jang Jae-hyun, Me by Don Hertzfeldt and Infinite Summer by Miguel Llansó
After the first contact with the Festival, we go to the rooms more calmly and we already know where everyone is. Furthermore, the day started later and we were able to rest enough for the new binge. The first film of the day is at the Sala Tramuntana at the Melia and since I haven’t been to the Auditori yet, I started queuing for this one believing that Connection He was in that room. Luckily nothing bad happened, there was still half an hour left until the entrance and these two rooms are practically next to each other, so I went to queue at the Tramuntana.
Connection is the new film by Jang Jae-hyun, who had the pleasure of presenting his new work in front of a packed room of spectators and people who want to see Cho Min-sik (actor of Old man). The film tells how a curse ends up condemning a family generation after generation and this will lead them to hire a group of people dedicated to these cases related to deaths and their burials.
The director warned that the film is based on many cultural and religious concepts of his country, implying that it might be a little complicated to get into, but he manages to take his time to tell everything necessary and make his whole world believable.. Of course, the cost is a bit steep, as the film ends up dragging and spending two hours and there’s also the feeling of a false ending halfway through the film that almost leaves us with two totally different stories. Despite this, the film has an incredible work of cinematography and setting and the cast gives everything to convey the traditions and their cultural expressions.
After a great session full of beautiful moments accompanied by applause from the audience, it was time to give a walk in the Prado and on this occasion do a “double session”, Me And Endless summer. Me is the new short film by Don Hertzfeldt and little can be said that hasn’t already been said about this author. On this occasion the creator of It’s a wonderful world He continues to be the man of a thousand positions, as he himself writes, directs, composes and produces his own project.
Me it transports us to a hyper-connected dystopian world that is best not told much aboutsince given its duration I prefer not to say much more. Of course it leaves us a very loud and clear message, hyperconnection could destroy us if it isn’t already doing so and to make it clearer, pay attention to the moment in which multiple screens appear and their orientation.
The short film perfectly accompanied Endless summer by Miguel Llansó in which a group of girls enjoy their holidays in a summer house and using devices that will eventually produce new sensations in her and connect her with other people. the movie it was presented by the director, with some jokes on the rhythm and almost without tension, with many contemplative scenes. In the end all this was more of a way to prepare ourselves see something much worse than we would have seen. Endless summer Rather, it ends with parodies and jokes with highly exaggerated characters like the mindfulness guru or the duo of sober detectives who don’t try to convey much.
Perhaps Endless summer Maybe it won’t be the great film of the Sitges Film Festival and you can’t ask much from it, but in the end it offers fun and good laughs if you look at it with the right eyes. Sometimes it feels like you’re trying to play with different genres or with scenes that convey a totally different tone than the rest of the film.especially in the final part of the film, which seems very rushed and underdeveloped.