Highly politically charged little comedy from Spanish master filmmaker Luis Buñuel during his Mexican period through which inside, practically in its entirety, of a streetcar he is capable of showing us the social reality of Mexico during that time.
Based on the true events around the death of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, Costa-Gavras excels presenting its viewers the inner intricacies of a proto-fascist and military state, and how these institutions try to hold onto power while keeping at bay any sort of opposing views in order to maintain the status-quo.
Bruno Dumont portrays fantastically a group of five friends in northern rural France who are a bunch of imbeciles, while completely fooling us at the beginning of the film making us believe that we were in front of your typical group of innocent and trickster misfits that you come to love and care for and not in fact a group of guys that you end up to despising.
Formally, technically, and aesthetically very enticing film but unfortunately filled with a too simplistic, borderline idiotic, premise and plot that even more so it basically does not provide anything new coming from WandaVision.
Abbas Kiarostami gives us a beautiful look on rural life in Iran through the condescending eyes of a newly arrived man from the city, who brings a team to produce a journalistic/cinematic (not really clear) report on the mourning ceremonies in that isolated village.
