The Film List of 2017
The end of the year, a time to look back at the best films of 2017. This year we wanted to change the yearly concept and this year cinestan presents you a list by themes. The themes were chosen by… Continue Reading
Latin-America
Review El Ciudadano Ilustre
Hoe kan de schrijver ontsnappen aan zijn werk? Wat gebeurt er wanneer een schrijver geconfronteerd wordt met zijn inspiratie? Dit zijn de vragen die Mariano Cohn en Gastón Duprat antwoorden in deze satirische film. Daniel Mantovani, Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur,… Continue Reading
The lost movie of the week: Sólo Con Tu Pareja (1991)
AIDS has never been an easy topic to talk about. Making a comedy about the topic in middle of the AIDS epidemic seemed even crazier. However, the young director at the helm of this feature was called: Alfonso Cuarón! Don… Continue Reading
Cannes fait son cinéma!
Et c’est reparti pour le grand cirque sur la Croisette ! Pendant deux semaines, les stars et les autres s’y baladeront pour vivre le plus grand Festival de cinéma de l’année. La Palme d’Or, ce prix tellement convoité, sera remise le… Continue Reading
The lost movie of the week: La Muerte de un burócrata (1966)
This film is a satire on the post-revolutionary bureaucracy. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the director, was a representative of the New Latin American Cinema . This movement made movies on the problems of neocolonialism and cultural identity, criticising the political problems… Continue Reading
Cannes dévoile une sélection alléchante pour sa 70ième édition
Cannes a dévoilé ses noms pour sa 70ième édition. La compétition sera passionnante avec le nouveau film de Yorgos Lanthimos (« The Lobster »), Sofia Coppola (« Lost in Translation »), François Ozon (« Jeune et Jolie »), Bong Joon-ho (« Snowpiercer »), Michel Hazanavicius (« The Artist »), Michael… Continue Reading
The lost movie of the week: Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Mexican films have a long history of making social relevant pictures. “Nosotros los pobres“ is no exception on this golden rule. Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighbourhood… Continue Reading
Review Neruda
Neruda, the famous Chilean poet receives a powerful biopic cantered on a very particular moment in his life. An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s… Continue Reading
The best movies of 2016
2016 is almost over but before we pass the torch to 2017 we decided to look back at 2016. Each contributor made a list of the best films of the year. We decided that ranking the movies would be unfair… Continue Reading
Peliculatina Festival review: “La Ciénaga entre el mar y la tierra”
Peliculatina is een Brussels festival met fictiefilms uit Latijns-Amerika en het Iberisch Schiereiland. Het wordt elk jaar georganiseerd door het Huis van Latijns-Amerika. De openingsfilm van de 5de editie was “La Ciénaga entre el mar y la tierra” . Alberto lijdt… Continue Reading