Sweat

From the director of "The Girl with the Needle" Del director de "La chica de la aguja" Despite having seen few films in the last few weeks, I still have many reviews to upload thanks to an unusually cinephile month of May in which I saw 29 films from all over the world: Germany, France, Poland, Chile, Asia, American independent cinema, documentaries, thrillers, migration stories, classic films, some newer, others no…

MTV, by inspiring directors and producers to insist on “cool” music video-like visuals at the expense of everything else, is often blamed for the lower quality of Hollywood films in past few decades. But its influence had even worse aftermath in other cinema industries, most notably France where many film makers wholeheartedly embraced “style over substance”, partly inspired by Luc Besson and his “Cinema du look” mo…