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Dir.\u00a0Tobias\u00a0N\u00f6lle<\/p>\n
SMA | Friday 22 | 14:00 hrs | Cinemex Plaza la Luci\u00e9rnaga <\/strong><\/p>\n GTO |\u00a0 Thursday 28 | 20:00 hrs\u00a0 | Auditorium of the University of Guanajuato <\/strong><\/p>\n The Richter Scale says<\/strong>: Why is it easier to connect with something imaginary than to something real? Why is it that we tend to relate to something we know concretely at a distance and yet we\u2019re fully commited to something that mainly exists in our imagination? Surely there are many answers, but the most likely one is that we have more control when make that link with something imaginary, since most of what happens in that relationship is something we make up. On the other hand, connecting to a real person with feelings and frailties requires a greater risk.\u00a0Aloys\u00a0Adorn\u00a0(Georg Friedrich) is a private investigator that records the people around him for work and then spends hours watching what he\u2019s recorded as a hobby. He\u2019s happy not to belong to the world of others and more now that his father just died and the only creature invading his world is his cat.<\/p>\n That changes when a mysterious woman steals his camera and if he wants to get back, he\u2019ll have to participate in a new game called \u201cphone-walking\u201d. Using what she says as a guide, he imagines a world where he exists with her and as he connects further and further to the game, he\u2019ll fall in love with this woman even though, when all is said and done, all he knows of her is his voice, even if he imagines her with the body of a neighbor (Tilde von\u00a0Overbeck) who is now in the hospital. When presenting our protagonist\u2019s loneliness and isolation, N\u00f6lle introduces a world of cold and dark colors, and only bringing in warmer and brighter colors when Aloys is immersed in his fantasy and so the audience enjoys what he\u2019s enjoying, always aware that what he enjoys isn\u2019t real\u00a0(and of course, we see Aloys\u2019 life the same way he sees ours and the irony is certainly not lost on the filmmaker).<\/p>\n The film\u2019s greatest highlight is Georg Friedrich\u2019s performance. Playing Aloys is no easy task. He is our protagonist and he has to inspire certain empathy in the audience, but not so much that we believe that the way he keeps pushing people away is healthy for him. This man has very little in life and even though at times we may think he has every right to be alone, it\u2019s contrasted when we meet some of his neighbors and other people who would like to interact with him and see how he just won\u2019t allow it. This is why this character arc, from a man who rejects the world he lives in to one who finds something he wants to connect to becomes something that the audience will root for in the story. It\u2019s a film that walks a fine line between keeping the audience at a distance from the story and expecting the audience to become involved in it, which is exactly what a story like this requires and achieves admirably.<\/p>\n \u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Official Selection Mexican Feature<\/p>\n Dir.\u00a0Alejandro Guzm\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/p>\n SMA | Friday 22 | 14:00 hrs |\u00a0 \u00c1ngela Peralta Theater GTO |\u00a0 Wednesday 27 | 14:00 hrs | Ju\u00e1rez Theater The Richter Scale says<\/strong>: How does one find their place in a world that doesn\u2019t seem to be built for them to have one? When one doesn\u2019t have the appearance, the skills, the flexibility or even the health to get along in life, what does one do? Sooner or later we all find our place and Fede\u00a0S\u00e1nchez (Luis \u201cLuca\u201d Ortega) found his the day he walked into a camera shop to have an old film developed and discovered a passion for photography.\u00a0Fede\u00a0weighs over 400 pounds and has difficulty moving. He\u2019s already had a heart attack and hasn\u2019t left the house in over 10 years, so he spends most of his time by himself, except when he gets visits from his sister Rosaura (Martha Claudia Moreno) who loves him but feels he\u2019s a burden, and his brother-in-law Ram\u00f3n (Mauricio Isaac) who is dominated by his wife. Through his passion for photography he forms a bond with Paulo (Joel Isaac Figueroa)\u00a0the young man who developed the first roll of film and will now help him with a few dreams he thought would never come true.<\/p>\n The film\u2019s greatest accomplishment is the deep empathy it develops toward its characters.\u00a0Fede\u00a0is one of those people who at first sight might seem grotesque or pathetic (and yes, the film includes scenes of people reacting to him that way) but the script by Itzel Lara, along with Luca Ortega\u2019s performance, make sure to present Fede\u00a0as sensitive, genuine and very aware of himself, and yet he\u2019s never a quitter. He also connects very naturally to Joel Figueroa and Mauricio Isaac, with whom he builds the heart of the film.\u00a0Rosaura is a character that the script doesn\u2019t seem to have much use for, but Martha Claudia Moreno manages to empathize with her and finds that fragility and human dimension to her character, since it\u2019s sadly just not present in the dialogue she says. It\u2019s true that this is a fable and as such the characters won\u2019t necessarily be as deep as we\u2019d want them to be, but it\u2019s still a sad that the script would be this dismissive of a character who seems to have the best intentions.<\/p>\n It\u2019s always interesting to think about what a director and a screenwriter contribute to a film when they\u2019re not the same person (and in this case it\u2019s the first feature film for both), since those collaborations tend to bring fresher stories and different points of view. Unlike many films we will see in the festival, this one has plenty of dialogue and characters that are constantly expressing themselves (this is more common when the director and screenwriter are different people) and some very endearing details of story that are complemented with a visual style that mixes a reality of today\u2019s Mexico with a much more colorful touch to give it the feel of a fairy tale. Fede\u2019s life is a sad one, but his way to look at the world with the passion and innocence of a child bathed in a certain melancholy that comes with everything this man has been through make this a very human story filled with characters one will want to meet outside the screen.<\/p>\n \u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Aloys Official Selection International Feature Dir.\u00a0Tobias\u00a0N\u00f6lle SMA | Friday 22 | 14:00 hrs | Cinemex Plaza la Luci\u00e9rnaga GTO |\u00a0 Thursday 28 | 20:00 hrs\u00a0 | Auditorium of the University of Guanajuato The Richter Scale says: Why is it easier to connect with something imaginary than to something real? 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