Temblores

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Movie
German title Temblores
Original title Temblores
Country of production France , Guatemala , Luxembourg
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2019
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Jayro Bustamante
script Jayro Bustamante
production Gérard Lacroix ,
De Jesus Peralta Orellana Marina ,
Nicolas Steil ,
Edgard Tenembaum
music Pascual Reyes
camera Luis Armando Arteaga
cut César Díaz ,
Santiago Otheguy
occupation

Temblores (international title Tremors ) is a film drama by Jayro Bustamante , which premiered on February 8, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on May 1, 2019.

action

Pablo lives in Guatemala City , is married to the wealthy and attractive Isa and has two children with her. When he comes home one day, his wife and devout family are waiting for him. You can't understand that he fell in love with another man. His sister Eva searches for the reasons for his predisposition in her childhood, Abel explains to him that he is no longer part of the family. A small earthquake underscores the tense situation at Pablo's home.

Against the resistance of his relatives, Pablo moves into a small apartment in the city, very close to his lover Francisco, who freely lives out his homosexuality and works as a masseur. Pablo is afraid of what's coming and doesn't want to tell his children about his homosexuality either. Isa begins to keep them away from him and obtains a court ruling that forbids Pablo to approach her and the children. Even Rosa, who has worked as the family's nanny and housekeeper for many years, has to obey the judge's judgment and keep the father away from his children. His son becomes a bed wetter, his daughter steals perfume that reminds her of her father. She doesn't think he's damned. Pablo also misses his children very much. On his birthday, Francisco played him a voice message from his children after he got Rosa to help him with the surprise.

Furthermore, Pablo attends the service with his mother and father. When he lost his job as a consultant due to the conservative moral code of his employer, he began to work in the church, where he was responsible for the accurate setting up of the chairs and the electronic recording of the collections. Pablo's mother prays with the other visitors to the services for Pablo's healing and sees his faith as the only way to get back on the right path. She also wants to north up his friend when she visits him at work, but Francisco is not a religious person. He felt it was a step backwards that Pablo's new employer was the Church of all things.

Both Isa and Pablo participate in a Church program. One tries to explain to her that she has to be ready to fulfill her husband's sexual desires so that he does not desire them elsewhere. Pablo is supposed to practice sexual abstinence in a facility under the guidance of the pastor before he can return to his family. Conversion therapy also includes confronting his lover with his family. So he invites Francisco under a pretext and explains to those present that he does not want to see him again.

production

Director and screenwriter Jayro Bustamante

The film was produced by Arte France Cinéma. Directed by Jayro Bustamante . The director, who was born in Guatemala, returned to his home country after studying at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris and at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he founded the production company La Casa de Producción, with which he made his first feature film, Ixcanul . This was shown in competition at the Berlinale 2015 and awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize. The film title Temblores refers to two small earthquakes in the film as well as the shaking of Pablo's life.

Temblores received a production grant (Aide aux Cinémas du Monde) from the Institut français and also grants from the Gan Foundation for Film and the Film Fund Luxembourg.

The film was shot between June 26th and August 4th 2017 in Guatemala. Luis Armando Arteaga acted as cameraman . According to Lorenz Maroldt from Tagesspiegel , the film is kept in muted shades of brown and green, which fits in with the gloom that Pablo is facing .

Temblores was shown for the first time on February 8, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival in the Panorama section. It was released in French cinemas on May 1, 2019. In late July and early August 2019 it was shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival . A performance at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián is planned for September 2019 . In early October 2019 it will be presented at the London Film Festival .

reception

Reviews

The film has so far received the approval of 93 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 7.5 out of a possible 10 points.

The Hollywood Reporter's Neil Young notes that Jayro Bustamante seems a bit like his debut feature film, Ixcanul , a film that also focused on a conflict between "traditional" values ​​of a milieu and the desires of individuals who cannot or do not want to adapt. Bustamante's script is a philosophically and theologically differentiated matter that focuses on the big picture without dealing with the smaller details. This becomes a problem, as telenovelas are often created in this way. Still, Young highlights the portrayal of Juan Pablo Olyslager in the role of Pablo, which might make him a candidate for best actor at the Berlinale.

David Ehrlich of IndieWire says there have been a number of films about gay men trying to break free from heteronormative oppression, but few have been told with the extraordinary shade or compassion of tremors . Variety's Guy Lodge explains that Temblores is the latest in a long line of films examining the hypocritical conflict between gay rights and evangelical Christian ethics, such as Boy Erased and The Miseducation of Cameron Post . In this regard, Bustamante's second film does not pose any new questions, but has a reverberant atmosphere in which he finds fresh, angry ways to answer them. In Pablo's outing to the family, when a sudden, light earthquake intensifies the chaos, the symbolism is clear enough: "In religious Guatemala, where homosexuality is legal but still largely taboo, the essence of this revealed infidelity is a violent break in the family. " Bustamante does not save with brutality in his film, and so the conversion therapy in question is portrayed as a grotesque obstacle course of physical humiliation and psychological torture games, and the claustrophobic darkness sets further nightmarish accents, Lodge continues.

Awards

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2019

  • Nomination for the Horizons Award ( Jayro Bustamante )
  • Award for Best Latin American Film (Jayro Bustamante)

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2019

  • Award for the best camera in the Ibero-America Competition ( Luis Armando Arteaga )
  • Award for the best camera with the Mayahuel Award (Luis Armando Arteaga)
  • Nomination for Best Film in the Ibero-America Competition (Jayro Bustamante)
  • Nomination for Best Feature Film (Jayro Bustamante)

Berlin International Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Teddy - Best Feature Film (Jayro Bustamante)

Jerusalem Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Feature Film (Jayro Bustamante)

Miami Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Film in the HBO Ibero-American Competition (Jayro Bustamante)
  • Nomination for Best Film for the Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize (Jayro Bustamante)

Outfest Los Angeles 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nadine Lange: “Temblores” in the Berlinale Panorama: No God, nowhere. In: Der Tagesspiegel, February 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Panorama 2019, first half of the program has been determined: Joanna Hogg, Jenna Bass, Jonah Hill, Syllas Tzoumerkas and PJ Harvey in the program. In: berlinale.de, December 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ Tremors. In: bfi.org.uk. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Tremors. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Neil Young, 'Tremors' ('Temblores'): Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ David Ehrlich: 'Tremors' Review: An Extraordinary Guatemalan Drama About a Gay Man Torn Between Faith and Family. In: indiewire.com, February 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Guy Lodge: Berlin Film Review: 'Tremors'. In: Variety, February 15, 2019.
  8. ↑ https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2019/sections_and_films/horizontes_latinos/7/671175/in
  9. ↑ In the Spirit of Freedom. In: jff.org.il. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  10. ↑ Tremors. In: miamifilmfestival.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.