[REL] Tótem (2023) [Mexico-Denmark-France]
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:35 pm
In her second film after The Chambermaid in 2018, Lila Avilés leaves behind the cramped hotel rooms of her debut but continues to work on the connection between relationships and interior spaces. This time, the setting is a large house where, over the course of a long day, family and friends meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but as it will likely be his last, it is also a farewell ceremony. There is duality in the film’s soul, too, with the frenzy of preparations and the spontaneity of the celebration concealing the profoundly archaic and spiritual dimension of the title. Tona’s weakened body is initially invisible, protected in a room where he tries to summon up the strength required for the humanist ceremony in which he will be showered with all the love and affection needed to face his final journey.
Like the character of the bonsai-loving patriarch, Avilés takes meticulous care in shaping her own miniature, bending trajectories and feelings, pruning all frills and excess. A film that prepares for loss, Tótem amasses signs and forms of life: animals, insects, plants and a parade of wonderful human beings who are stronger together.
Source: Berlinale
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26315142/
Trailer
I give that movie a rating from 4 of 5 stars. I was a bit surprised about the way of the story, because I read around a vather who's near to die and all the family and friends are coming... But most of the movie are in a special view from the little girl and how she see that situation around her. There are some funny parts, some parts to think a bit, some are a bit emotional and in the final step the birthday party who's the end of the story and it's no suprise what will hapen after. thi's movie set no dramatical focus to the end of a live, it set the focus to the people around a person who love this guy. For me it was a good selected closing for the last day at the Berlinale in 2023. Oh, and there is another little cutie in the movie who you can see a bit more. She's a bit younger than Sol. Around 4 or 5 yrs. old.
Like the character of the bonsai-loving patriarch, Avilés takes meticulous care in shaping her own miniature, bending trajectories and feelings, pruning all frills and excess. A film that prepares for loss, Tótem amasses signs and forms of life: animals, insects, plants and a parade of wonderful human beings who are stronger together.
Source: Berlinale
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26315142/Trailer
I give that movie a rating from 4 of 5 stars. I was a bit surprised about the way of the story, because I read around a vather who's near to die and all the family and friends are coming... But most of the movie are in a special view from the little girl and how she see that situation around her. There are some funny parts, some parts to think a bit, some are a bit emotional and in the final step the birthday party who's the end of the story and it's no suprise what will hapen after. thi's movie set no dramatical focus to the end of a live, it set the focus to the people around a person who love this guy. For me it was a good selected closing for the last day at the Berlinale in 2023. Oh, and there is another little cutie in the movie who you can see a bit more. She's a bit younger than Sol. Around 4 or 5 yrs. old.
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