Brecha (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Brecha |
| Original title | Brecha |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Iván Noel |
| script | Iván Noel, Francisco Alfonsín |
| production | Iván Noel |
| music | Iván Noel |
| camera | Iván Noel |
| cut |
Guy Ducker , Iván Noel |
| occupation | |
1on the German DVD, abuela (Spanish for grandmother) was mistaken for a name
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Brecha (Spanish for "gap", "gap") is a Spanish film from 2009 by Iván Noel . It is his second film for director, screenwriter, composer and producer Noel. The no-budget production is about a family drama about a boy and his father, who has returned from prison.
action
Andrés is released from prison after four years in prison and picked up by his mother. In recent years she has looked after Andrés son, the now twelve-year-old José Ramón, and has now organized an apartment for them both. The first reunion between father and son is almost emotionless, only José Ramón's cat named Satan provides the first topic of conversation. Both feel lonely, attempts at advances fail; there are always hints of the death of Marisa, José Ramón's mother, in the room.
While Andrés takes up a job with the railroad, José Ramón only has contact at school with the older Dani, for whom he steals magazines and with whom he spends time in the afternoons. Apparently the older boy also exploits him sexually. But when Dani denounces José Ramón as a thief at the school principal, this also falls back on Andrés, whose criminal past the whole village is still talking about. Another argument ensues between father and son, whereupon Andrés gives the boy new shoes on the advice of his grandmother to soothe him. José Ramón is happy, but the mood does not last long. When Satan is run over by a car, the boy suspects his father of killing the cat. In addition, a woman from the village, whose son Andrés once ran over, for which he was imprisoned, begins to attack him again in public.
Resigned, Andrés tells his mother that he wants to move away and asks her to take José Ramón back to her home. However, she refuses and an argument breaks out, in which she expresses her disdain for Marisa and assigns him sole responsibility for his son. Andrés, however, angrily chases the boy away soon after. After wandering around for a while, José Ramón meets a "strange girl", as he has done several times before, who, however, indirectly indicates to him that he must finally talk. When he then returns to his father, he chases him away again; José Ramón almost runs in front of a car, which Andrés reminds of the car accident in which he ran over a child while trying to bring Marisa to the hospital because she was about to suffocate. Andrés collapses and José Ramón comes back and helps him into the apartment.
Now both are trying to tell each other the truth about Marisa's death: She suffocated on a toy that José Ramón had hidden as a "good luck charm" in his homemade cake. Andrés had not dared to speak to the boy about it without realizing that he had learned the truth by chance years ago and has since struggled to cope with this guilt. In tears, father and son finally find each other again.
Creation and publication
Where have you been? , Iván Noel's first film, had received little attention, and the director was without money or steady work when he set to work on his second film. Brecha was shot in Lebrija . Again Noel worked with Francisco Alfonsín , who was already in Where Were You? held the adult lead and this time also participated in the script. All those involved worked for free and apart from Alfonsín none of the actors had any experience. Noel borrowed the technical equipment from a local television studio, for which he hosted a weekly program in return. Hestole the MiniDV cassettes for the cameras from the supermarket every day before shooting started. In addition to the film music by Noel himself, the film alsouses Invention 10 in G major (BWV 781) by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Noel also released this film with English subtitles for free on YouTube and offered an extended version with additional French subtitles and bonus material on DVD. Brecha has also been shown at the Seville and Mar del Plata film festivals. In Germany cmv-Laservision released the film under the original title (sometimes with the English addition Gap ) on DVD with German subtitles.
Web links
- Brecha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie description on Noelfilms.com
supporting documents
- ↑ Release certificate for Brecha . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 296 V).
- ↑ Brecha press kit. (PDF) Noel Films, p. 2 , accessed on October 6, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Brecha. Noel Films, accessed October 6, 2015 .