3 movies and 3 albums you should see and hear this week.

After a few days of rest, the recommendations of the week returned with three feature films and three discs that we recommend to see and hear this week.

FILMS

1. My Dinner With André (1981, directed by Louis Malle, United States)

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This is a movie that causes something incredible when you're watching it. I imagined having this same deep conversation, talking to old friends that I have not spoken to in centuries. I think I would feel the same level of disconnection between André and Wally with my old school friends, especially because I grew up and became a very different person than they knew so long ago, and I also feel that they are the same, maybe because there are some of them that I have not seen in more than 8 years.

During the film, I was attracted to the two points of view, although in the end I felt like Wally, looking through the window of the taxi, reliving in my head small memories in super 8 that may seem silly to others, but bring Joy and meaning my life in ways that I can not explain.

I love this kind of films that allows me to travel between my own memories, thinking about my own decisions, and when I go back to what is on the screen, there is another vignette of Wally and André's conversation that takes me to another place in my mind. do the same. The film is intellectually human, cerebrally emotive and cynically passionate about the themes it touches, and that makes it great.

Here is the link to the film.

2. Polytechnique (2009, dir. Denis Villeneuve, Canada)

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This film, inspired by real events, shows the final and most extreme consequence of your friend who only shares memes against feminazis, and genuinely believes that feminism is letting you grow your body hair and splashing everything with the blood of your period. A mentally unstable and highly misogynist was the guilty party of murdering several people, mainly women, at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, just because they were feminists and fought for their rights and opportunities to be respected.

The way Villeneuve portrays him is raw and bloody, mainly because it is a horrible story that deserved to be told a few years later to show how the problem, from the root, remains the same: Women continue to strongly demand the same, and there is people who simply can not tolerate it. How fortunate that Villeneuve was, a director outside the box, and not just any amateur who had not bothered to make the film a powerful statement. "If I have a son, I will teach him how to love. If I have a girl, I will tell her that the world belongs to her."

Here is the link to the trailer.

3. Annihilation (2018, dir. Alex Garland, United States)

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This film may be very intellectual and cold, but there is nothing in Annihilation that does not make it a science fiction classic as criticism, very appropriately, has cataloged. Why? Mainly, because of the way he treats the mysteries he is planting. It does not necessarily show you how they are resolved, but you, as a spectator, must draw your own judgment on what is happening. In the end, it is a story of resilience, of pain, of people who self-sabotage, as the character of Jennifer Jason Leigh says, and that is enough to come up with the true meaning of the film.

We could talk for hours about that wonderful and lysergic ending, or about what exactly is happening, or we could think about why those people are there and were chosen for this mission and the way their personal problems interfere with what they are doing. and with the decisions they make and with what ends up arising from them. The point is that it is one of those films that need a viewer with a mind open enough to fulfill its purpose.

Here is the link to the trailer.

DISCS

1. David Byrne - American Utopia (2018, United States)

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The richness of sounds and creativity has always marked the musical career of David Byrne. American Utopia is an album that someone who follows his journey would be expected to do, because contrary to join the wave of social criticism, you can write about finding hope and try to be happy in a negative environment thanks to our pleasure for music. American Utopia manages to be an intelligent work, loaded with fresh ideas -some better developed than others- in contrast to the age of the founder of Talking Heads. From those albums that reminds you why this kind of genius is idolized by all the bands that you like.

Here is the link to the album

2. Gran Radio Riviera – Tanto (2018, Venezuela)

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Gran Radio Riviera is one of those bands that I've seen grow in some form or another, and mature their sound until what they finally deliver on their debut album, where they give a twist of local indie sound. I was sworn in that Intercollegiate New Bands 2013 that they won when they were called The Dinosaurs, and since then they have suffered multiple transformations and changes in their lineup. In so much, it is evident the commitment that the band puts at the time of creating vocal harmonies and catchy choruses, while they sing about love and relationships, a common place of local pop rock, that although it does not detract from the quality of their songs, it could be something to correct in future deliveries. Both serve to remind us that the Intercollegiate itself was theirs, despite all the time it took to release the album.

Here is a link to one of the songs on the album

3. Mount Eerie - Now Only (2018, United States)

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Phil Elverum is one of these guys who love to write about misery, sadness and mourning, with a self-confidence that could not be palpated by how intimate his proposal could be, based mainly on the sound of his acoustic guitar and what he can transmit with his words. Here what he does is relive their memories, as if it were to see your old photos printed. Honest music and exit from the soul.

Here is the link to the album

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