CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Arianna Moses
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Rafiqfuad Yarahmadi
Authorship and the film La AntenaBy: Rafiqfuad YarahmadiAuthorship in cinemaThe key directors of the French New Wave Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer had been a filmed critic writing for the French cinema magazine Cahiers du Cinema. This was the first film journal to treat cinema as an art form and to discuss it in an academic way. In the early 1950s this group of critics developed an argument through a long series of articles, which became known as 'la politique des auteurs'. Taken up by American critics in the 1960s these ideas became known as the auteur theory or authorship theory. In their writings the critics argued that film was primarily a visual medium rather a literary one and that the director was the author of a film in the same way as a writer is the author of a novel. In one influential essay 'La Camera Stylo' (1954), Alexander Astruc argued that the film director 'writes' a film with the camera as if he was an artist with a paintbrush. Rather than film language being used for the adaptation of a script, it should be the visual language, which is most important. Therefore the director is the true author of a film because the visual language is the language of cinema; the script is literary, a different language entirely. Authorship in film is a subject of debate in theory of film since the Cahiers du Cinema critics in 1950s for the first time birthed author theory. They believed that films should reflect a director's personal vision. Some directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Alfred Hitchcock are famous for been authors of their movies. 'This doesn't mean that the directors is an expert at every job or dictates every thing. The director can represent tasks to trusted members of crew, and directors often work usually with certain actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and editors'. (Film Art page 33)According to Francois Truffaut in an article that he published in Cahiers du Cinema in 1954, 'an expression of his own personality' an auteur converts the movie into something personal. The main version of French authorship theory was the impression of making a film different to the director by introducing ideas of his own into the characters and the story beyond what the story needed. According to Film History by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson the idea of authorship engaged with the growing art film in 1950s and 1960s. The prestigious directors of the period started to write their own scripts, all followed distinctive themes and stylistic choices in film after film. Film festivals managed to honour the director as a main creator. Tati, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others become 'brand' names in a commercial context. In 1960s and 1970s, auteurism helped in creation of film studies. Film viewers made the idea of authorship a commonplace in the film culture. Most of film fans used term of auteurism as a kind of taste not just for film-art directors but they used also for Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone who were Hollywood filmmakers. Something that we have to consider is that feature movies never been made by one person. A big crew such as producer, cinematographer, director, editor, and lots of ideas and days of hard work go into collaborating on a film production. We should know that only theory of authorship would not answer the questions for all movies. As we know the process of filmmaking, film often supports with a more collaborative style of authorship than other artistic media. Even there are some movies that been recognised for their writing or directing style but the true authorship lies in the intentionality of the collective that produced the final product. La AntenaLa antenna is a thriller movie directed by director/writer Estabin Sapir, stars of this movie are Vleria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta and Julieta Cardinali. This monochrome film was made in Argentina which the mostly is silent. I can clearly say that the theme of film is about media mind control. This film has got a comic vision and reminds me the Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon, and the strange city in the film is remind me the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. A dictator called Mr TV, in a timeless city has made all the citizens of the city speechless. The city is looks like the Fritz Lang's Metropolis and it is so similar to Expressionist movies with animated billboards, TV aerials and towers. The Voice, the only citizen who can speak, calms people who live in this city. We can't see her face and a hood masks her face. The Voice is forced to have a singing programme on Mr TV, s television. The only food that people in this city can get to eat is Mr TV.'s brand food. This behaviour remind us the dictatorship and totalitarianism in those countries that people hasn't have freedom of speech and the film shows swastika symbol several times. He is working on a device and wants to hypnotize his people to be able to control citizens and this is really similar factory scene in Modern Times movie by Charles Chaplin that the factory manager tries to control all workers by using CCTV. Bibliography:Continue => Part 2
dragokin
This is another movie i've discovered accidentally, if i remember right in festival dedicated to animated film. In any case, La Antena is a powerful feature film.The citizens of an unnamed city lose their voices. The only inhabitant spared is The Voice (La Voz). And as the story progresses the protagonists are fighting to get the voices back.Explaining the plot would probably be misleading, but there is a small detail that put me off, although it might simply be a personal preference. At a certain point, one the main characters wears a soviet army hat. In order to avoid the confusion, the authors make it a hat with a red star. This, among other things, should symbolize the protagonist's fight against injustice, epitomized in today's political terms as leftist struggle.I understand that Latin American history of the 20th century offers numerous examples of right and left dictatorships and might as well influence your opinion. However, i had the impression that wearing that particular hat meant that if you're not leftist you're not on the right side...However, this impression and complaint may simply be my misinterpretations. La Antena is otherwise a good movie.
bne982
I didn't see such a movie where the creators put so much heart's blood into their work and paid attention to the finest details for a very long time.Everything was well thought and perfectly put into reality. Camera-work, editing and compositing worked so good together it was just amazing. The titles were so fun and so perfectly choreographed.This movie just blew me away.The "Showdown" could have been cut down by 10 or 15 minutes though.It's a near to perfect homage to early silent noir Films story, acting, scenery and costumes were perfectly fitting and believable to have com from the times of silent film-making.
blosmelinda
I've seen this movie twice on Transilvania International Film Festival(TIFF), the movie is in competition and I really hope that Esteban Sapir will get one of the awards (at least the best image award). As a silent cinema fan I'm interested in contemporary movies that quote or recreate the language of the yester-year cinema. The previous reviewer emphasized the quotes from Fritz Lang and Fr. W. Murnau. As I see it, the movie references directly Lang's Metropolis, and the allegorical-parabolic character of his plots. But I didn't see Murnau in it. There's a more obvious Melies-homage though: the Moon with a (here cigar-smoking) human face, and the paper-made, painted mountains and city-landscapes. I enjoyed the film mostly for its visuals, and in the meantime I found very interesting the story on muteness, and the creative means of communication used by the inhabitants of the voiceless city. From this perspective this movie is an unique reflexion on the muteness of the silent cinema, because in the films of the silent period one can hardly find stories with mute characters. In this case can be questioned whether the story on the stolen voices was the motivation for the silent film form, or there's an intention to play upon the muteness of the silent films. Another example of this kind of reflexion I found in Guy Maddin's Careful,where the inhabitants of a mountain-village have restrictions in using their voices. I intend to write a paper on it, if you know movies related to this topic, please let me know!!! I highly recommend Esteban Sapir's film to every moviegoer (one of the critics called it: the jewel of the festival).PS: Winners were announced, and the film won the award for best cinematography!
