CRITICS.A ‘Suicide Squad’ exuberant, a delusional musical and more follies (forgiveness, premieres) of cinema

This week, the billboard will undoubtedly be taken by a mega production dedicated to shine.But if you do not stop in the first paragraphs of our list, you will discover that other titles of unquestionable interest and diverse origin will also debut.

The Suicide Squad

Director: James Gunn

Cast: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena

Gender: Superheroes / Action / Comedy

Five years after that disaster called "Suicide Squad", it reaches the movie theaters and HBO Max a kind of sequel/'reboot' called "The Suicide Squad" (did no one come up with another name?) And whatexceeds its failed predecessor, but that is not the wonder that many critics have wanted to see.

On the positive side, it is an undoubtedly entertaining film that fully assumes its R classification to present itself as a black adult comedy in which the high words, the 'gore' and violence abound, and in which they even infiltrateSome nude scenes (although sexuality is really suggested), as part of a healthily challenging proposal that, for the first time, decently represents on the screen the unbridled and chaotic character of the antiheroes that it shows us, headed once again byHarley Quinn, who is again interpreted (now with many more nuances) by the spectacular Margot Robbie.

However, at this point in the game, such an approach is not novel, mainly because DC has already given us two Deadpool tapes that followed a similar path, while the combination of a vibrant visual language with an impetuous rock soundtrack refersImmediately to "Guardians of the Galaxy", which makes sense in any case in view of the fact that the two titles share the same director and screenwriter, James Gunn.

Finally, what least convinced us as Latinos (beyond the caresting villain entrusted to the Mexican Joaquín Cosío) is that, in the middle of the healthy winks that are made to certain current themes, the old letter of the “banana republic is used”To represent Latin America, since most of the history develops in short Maltese, a fictional nation already existing in the comics (but only from the '90s) that refers in terms not friendly to Cuba and Venezuela (look atits flag), although the story then resorts to a significant revelation with which it is intended to take stock of things.

Annette

Director: Leos Carax

Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg

Gender: Musical / Drama

Adam Driver has long since made it clear that it can be much more than a tormented villain in the “Star Wars” films, and in “Marriage Story”, he showed that he was able to sing.Now, these two qualities in "Annette" look again, a film that opens this Friday in a limited way in Salas and the ... in prime video, and that will definitely divide the waters between the spectators who will worship it and those who will detest it will.

"Annette" is the new creation of Leos Carax, the French filmmaker who takes a long time between each feature film and whose most recent tape, "Holy Motors" (2012), told the hallucinated story of an actor who played his roles without cameras or audience.Now, the challenging director joins the legendary American Pop and Rock Sparks duo to offer us a musical that, despite the genre he handles, is far from being a product of ‘mainstream’.

And it is that things get rare from the beginning, when the apparently ideal and successful couple formed by the comedian Henry (Driver) and the opera singer Ann (Marion Cotillard -who made their own singing scenes -) Through alleged live performances that fall frequently on the land of fantasy, based on a staging that somehow refers to the Wes Anderson school, but in the malignant plan.

However, you will have to wait until you see the daughter they both have (presented with extremely particular resources) and see Henry fall into madness (backed by a brilliant driver) to really realize the ends of which a proposal can reachThat, it looks like it looks, it is absolutely impressive.

John and The Hole

Director: Pascual Sisto

Cast: Charlie Shotwell, Michael C.Hall, Taissa Farmiga

Gender: Drama

Nicolás Giacabone, the Argentine writer he received next to Alejandro G.Iñárritu el Oscar for the best script for his work in “Birdman” (2014) -an exceptional work that also took the statuettes for best film, best director and best photography -joins the debutant Spanish director Pascual Sisto (widelyKnown for his work as a visual artist) to give life to "John and the Hole", a fascinating but sometimes impregnable feature film that premieres in selected rooms and in vod.

In the film, John (Charlie Shotwell) is a pre -teenager who lives a completely peaceful and self -realized life and, suddenly, without any obvious reason, he decides to drug his father, his mother and his older sister to place them at the bottom of aabandoned bunker that is located near the ultra modern house in which it resides, located in a country area.

Constantly avoiding easy explanations and handling an ambiguity that will arouse both speculations between cinephiles and rejection among the most commercial cinema lovers, "John and the Hole" is a tape that feels intentionally incomplete, but that offers various visual satisfactions, an actionmemorable by Shotwell and a novel look towards the phenomenon of burgués boredom.

Swan Song

Director: Todd Stephens

Cast: Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans

Gender: Dramatic comedy

Udo Kier, the emblematic German performer who is one of Lars von Trier's fetish actors (has been in "Breaking The Waves", "Dancer in the Dark" and "Nymphomaniac", among other creations of the defiant Danish filmmaker), and to theThat we saw recently on the skin of the sadistic and abusive father of the very hard "The Painted Bird", he completely leaves the mold in "Swan Song", a lovely dramatic comedy that premieres this Friday in select rooms of Los Angeles andNew York and that can be seen on demand since August 13.

Here, the veteran actor puts himself on Pat's skin, a former hairdresser who now lives in an elderly asylum and who, after receiving an invitation to attend the remains of an old client who has just died, decides to meet again with theWorld that left aside, which literally leads him to travel the streets and expose himself to various meetings that sometimes feel separate vignettes, but end up giving form and complexity to his unusual character.

Pat is open and proudly gay, and the story, written by also director Todd Stephens ("Edge of Seventeen"), he also pays tribute to the LGBTQ community in many ways.Finally, not everything works as it should, and the outcome is somewhat unsatisfactory, although not necessarily by design;But Kier is simply amazing, and that is reason enough to see the tape.

Naked Singularity

Director: Chase Palmer

Cast: John Boyega, Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård

Gender: Dramatic comedy

John Boyega, the young British actor who achieved worldwide fame due to his participation in the most recent trilogy of Star Wars, again adopts an American accent and showing his sensitivity in "Naked Singularity", a combination of drama, comedy, actionAnd even science fiction (!) That can be seen from tomorrow in selected rooms and that debuts in vod on August 13.

In this case, the interpreter assumes the role of almost, a public defender of New York whose attempts to protect the least favored are frequently frustrated by the indifference of the judicial system and who, after taking the new case of Lea (Olivia Cook), a young woman involuntarily involved in a drug business begins to think about the possibility that legality is not the best way to get what seems right in life.All this happens while we are warned that we are at the gates of a ‘collapse’ that would apparently transfer us to a parallel reality.

The idea of having Boyega in the role of a kind of modern Robin Hood is not bad, especially because it is a guy capable of arouseing a lot of sympathy;But the constant tangles of history and the accommodations that are made to reach the outcome are both a distraction and a badly aimed strategy within a tape that could have reinforced its virtues much more.