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El árbol

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2009
Original Title:

El árbol
País:

México 
Director:

Carlos Serrano Azcona

Color:

Color
Format:

Video: Digibeta
Duration:

70 min
Cast:
  • Bosco Sodi, Sara Montgomery Campbell, Mayte Cedeño
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Carlos Serrano Azcona
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: David Valdepérez
  • MONTAJE: Manuel Muñoz, Carlos Serrano Azcona, Carlos Reygadas
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Jaime Romandía, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Rosales

Synopsis

A vast belief system has been replaced with a non-believing system, and cinema deals with this change in the order of production as well as in the representation of images. Azcona Serrano’s film reflects this diminishment in symbolic sense that is concomitant to the increment in materiality, following its character for an hour as closely as the Dardenne brothers do in their films, but swapping their moral intensity with physical dispersion. What we get to know is that Santiago is a barman, separated, not allowed to see his kids, who wanders lonely through the city, but that doesn’t stop the leaking of an opinion on the social landscape that surrounds him (as distressing as his own situation), or the possibility of some encounters (a violent one with his sister-in-law, a commercial one with a prostitute, a fleeting one with his dealer: all of them chastely melancholic) with the other and with himself, even as inscrutable as that of the ending.