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The Bank Job
The film is based on real events that took place in London in the early 1970s, when a group of people broken into and robbed a bank vault. During the film it becomes clear that the robbers are unwitting pawns in a plan that involves much more dangerous, powerful and better-organized elements of organized crime, the Royal Family, the government and the police. The film successfully maintains audience attention in large part because of how events unfold. And the diverse characters with seemingly nothing in common are revealed to be much more alike that one would think. The violence in the story is not disturbing because it is not exaggerated, with the exception of several scenes that come across as somewhat excessive.
Gloria Ravazin
Stranded
October 12, 1972. An airplane carrying a rugby team is caught in a surprise storm as it crosses the Andes. Sixty-two days later, when all of the passengers were believed dead, 14 survivors returned to civilization. The emotions and joy did not last long as curiosity turned to judgment when it was discovered that the men had saved themselves by turning to cannibalism.
Gonzalo Arijon has made a moving documentary from these historical events, choosing not dramatic reconstructions but, rather, interviews with the survivors. In their 20s at the time of the plane wreck, they are now fathers, and their testimonies are mixed with archive footage (photographs, newspaper clippings, films). The significant location chosen for the interviews places us before the victims of an atrocious story, men who experienced the unacceptable, but above all men of great dignity. The film is first and foremost a pilgrimage for them and the families of those who did not survive. A necessity perhaps.
Hélène Karenzo
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