Day: May 9, 2016

REVIEW: El futuro [The Future] [2015]

Jared Mobarak

“For change” The best thing I can say about Luis López Carrasco‘s El futuro [The Future] is that it got me researching Spain’s 1982 general elections. How could it not? With an opening of just a pitch-black screen as archival voices sound out victory for the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) and the systemic change it promised to implement once the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) left office, not knowing what any of it means makes you question your grasp on world history and whether this is something you…

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REVIEW: Pelé: Birth of a Legend [2016]

Jared Mobarak

“When in doubt: do what they do” It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist‘s film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul. The climax depicts the 1958 World Cup with the country’s unexpected run to the final on the back of a seventeen year-old hobbled by a sprained knee, but it’s not his goal scoring that inspires confidence. His ability to run around the pitch in complete ignorance of the Europeans’ formation game lights a fire that…

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