Paper Birds Spain 2010
Address: Emilio Aragón
Duration: 122 minutes
There are films that strike us to the point to keep in our mind weeks or even months after seeing them for the first time. This is what happened to me "Paper Birds", a film directed by Emilio Aragon on the idea of \u200b\u200bpaying tribute to vaudeville in general and in particular to all artists, found their own ancestors that despite the hardships of hunger and kept the torch lit the profession during the civil war and early years of the dictatorship.
With exceptional script by the Argentine Fernando Castets (The Son of the Bride, Luna de Avellaneda), the story interweaves the daily lives of the artists rehearsing their parts, making sure the daily meal and sharing friendship, support and humor, with different times of the Civil War and in particular to a conspiracy in which they are involuntarily involved.
The theme continues to remind us "The trip to nowhere" by Fernando Fernan Gomez, but I think on this occasion what particularly focused our attention on the masterful interpretation offered by Imanol Arias and Lluis Homar. Both give the film a strong emotional charge that is precisely what draws the merely anecdotal. Lluis Homar overboard the role of homosexual discreet and sentimental while Imanol Arias, representing the artist's life and beaten by misfortune and whose stern countenance and complicated inner life hidden deep tenderness that struggles to rebound. Carmen Machi, with his insightful interpretation of the "star of vaudeville" brings a smile and sometimes laugh at a movie that she had been leaning dangerously towards the excessive melancholy. Overall a well-directed film, made with exquisite taste in which the ingredients are dosed mood wisely and pathos of difficult years with a heartfelt tribute to a profession and all within the context of the times dedicated Civil War and the Franco regime.
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