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<\/a>Screenings will be held from November 6-12 at UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center. General admission is $9.50; $7.50 for students, seniors and Media Arts Center San Diego members. Individual tickets can be purchased prior to each screening.<\/p>\n
\u201cFermat\u2019s Room\u201d (2007)<\/p>\n
Written and directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sope\u00f1a<\/p>\n
Starring: Llu\u00eds Homar, Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Mill\u00e1n & Federico Luppi<\/p>\n
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n
Who would have thought that watching four brilliant mathematicians trapped in a room together for 90 minutes could be this much fun?<\/p>\n
Galois (Alejo Sauras), the youngest of the group, seems more interested in using his sagacity as a chick magnet. His upcoming demonstration of the heretofore insoluble Goldbach\u2019s Theorem, the current rage of the scientific community, is shattered when he arrives home to find all of his work destroyed.<\/p>\n
Galois and three other brain trusts are invited by a mysterious host to ostensibly join him in solving an age-old enigma. Among the honored guests are Pascal (Santi Mill\u00e1n), a hard-drinking grump reduced to making tchotkes, seasoned problem solver and outwardly affable Hilbert (Llu\u00eds Homar), and Oliva (Elena Ballesteros), the sexy girl in the picture. They are all assigned pseudonyms and instructed not to bring a cell phone.<\/p>\n
When they arrive at their destination the group is sequestered in a comfy barn that unbeknown to them has four Poseidon hydraulic presses apportioned to each wall waiting to crush the life out of them.<\/p>\n
Moving wall dramas are not exactly headline grabbers, and while \u201cFermat\u2019s Room\u201d is little more than an extended episode of \u201cThe Outer Limits,\u201d writer\/directors Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sope\u00f1a do their best to keep you guessing and squirming. Art Director David Fern\u00e1ndez’s shrinking set, ominously foretold in the film\u2019s opening credit scene, becomes as much a character as the four principles.<\/p>\n
The script is the cinematic equivalent of a calculus porn, filled with enough inside references (the rowboat that takes them to Fermat\u2019s room is named \u2018Pythagoras\u2019 after the Greek philosopher and \u201cfather of numbers\u201d) to tickle even the most clinical mind.<\/p>\n
For those of you intrigued by the \u201cSaw\u201d franchise, but unable to deal with the gore, \u201cFermat\u2019s Room\u201d is just the puzzle for you.<\/p>\n
\u201cFermat\u2019s Room\u201d screens Friday Nov. 6 at 3:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., Monday Nov. 9 and Thursday Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m., Saturday Nov. 7 and Tuesday Nov. 10 at 1:00 p.m. and 8:30pm, Sunday Nov. 8 and Wednesday Nov. 11 at 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerro Come Perro\u201d (2008)<\/p>\n
Directed by Carlos Moreno<\/p>\n
Written by Carlos Moreno & Alonso Torres<\/p>\n
Starring: Marlon Moreno, \u00d3scar Borda, Blas Jaramillo, Paulina Rivas & \u00c1lvaro Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n
It\u2019s bad guys vs. worse guys in this unabashed and calculably violent rip off of \u201cAmores Perros.\u201d<\/p>\n
How is it possible that \u201cPerro Come Perro\u201d (\u201cDog Eat Dog\u201d) is Columbia’s official 2009 Academy Awards entry and a Sundance darling? After all, it\u2019s not as if we need another reason to hold those groups in disregard.<\/p>\n
The premise itself defies the gravity of logic: Career gangster Victor Pe\u00f1aranda (Marlon Moreno) is cagey enough to ascend the criminal ladder, yet foolish enough to suddenly get greedy and relieve his boss of a Hefty bag filled with loot.<\/p>\n
After the pre-credit establishing sequence we spend a long 90 minutes traversing the bowels of Columbia in search of the stolen cash.<\/p>\n
Adding water to the clich\u00e9 soup is a cigar-smoking voodoo priestess hired to put a curse on Victor, amateurish black-and-white dream sequences, scads of lazy rack focus shot, and even more dogs, stuffed or otherwise, to justify the title.<\/p>\n
As expected, the last reel amounts to nothing more than an endless fanfare of carnage. Instead of trying to play against convention, \u201cPerro Come Perro\u201d is happy to simply serve up a bloody bowl of puppy chow.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerro Come Perro\u201d screens Friday Nov. 6, Monday Nov. 9, and Thursday Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Saturday Nov. 7 at 3:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., Tuesday Nov. 10 at 3:30 p.m., Sunday Nov. 8 and Wednesday Nov. 11 at 1:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoy A Explotar\u201d (2008)<\/p>\n
Written & Directed by Gerardo Naranjo<\/p>\n
Starring: Juan Pablo de Santiago, Maria Deschamps, Daniel Gim\u00e9nez Cacho, Pedro Gonz\u00e1lez & Rebecca Jones<\/p>\n
4 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s save the best for last. \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d meets Godard without a cause in \u201cVoy A Explotar\u201d (\u201cI\u2019m Gonna Explode\u201d), a fast paced, delightfully irrepressible teen melodrama.<\/p>\n
Roman (Juan Pablo de Santiago) is the son of a wealthy right-wing congressman and Maru (Maria Deschamps) the daughter of a working class nurse. The two meet after Roman is expelled from a seminar for harboring a gun and a diary filled with impure thoughts. Even his father\u2019s generous contributions aren\u2019t enough to keep the boy from being expelled.<\/p>\n
Moving to a public school, Roman borrows a page from \u201cHarold and Maude\u201d by performing a mock hanging at the talent show. In detention he meets the misfit of his dreams, who is being punished for applauding his peculiar brand of performance art.<\/p>\n
The next day these two rebels without an escape plan make a break, but decide to take the buttoned-up route and camp out on the roof of Roman\u2019s father\u2019s villa. The first half of the film houses laughs aplenty, particularly the scenes between the semi-grieving parents. It isn\u2019t until the young couple leaves the safekeeping of their rooftop abode that the film\u2019s sense of imminent danger becomes palpable.<\/p>\n
The two first-time actors give surprisingly fresh, uncolored performances that blow the doors off of just about any contemporary American teen angst picture. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve seen a movie of this type with such a well-developed female lead.<\/p>\n
Produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna (Latin America\u2019s answer to Affleck and Damon), \u201cVoy A Explotar\u201d is a throwback to the stylishly energetic dawn of the French New Wave. Constantly drawing attention to itself through its cunning use of cinematic language and technique, the movie delights in transforming familiar territory into anything but another mundane coming of age picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoy A Explotar\u201d screens Friday Nov. 6, Monday Nov. 9, and Thursday Nov. 12 at 1:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Saturday Nov. 7 and Tuesday Nov. 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Sunday Nov. 8 and Wednesday Nov. 11 at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Scott Marks was born and raised in some of the finest single screen movie theaters in Chicago. He moved to San Diego in 2000 and has never looked back. Scott authors the blog emulsioncompulsion.com and is co-host of KPBS-Radio’s Film Club of the Air. Please address any bouquets or brickbats to emulsioncompulsion@gmail.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Latino Film Festival By Scott Marks The San Diego Latino Film Festival wraps up its 10th annual Cinema en tu Idioma Film Series with a weeklong \u201cmini-festival\u201d of movies from Spain (\u201cFermat\u2019s Room\u201d), Mexico (\u201cVoy A Explotar\u201d) and Columbia (\u201cPerro Come Perro\u201d). Festival director Ethan Van Thillo has put together another slam-bang collection of films […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":243010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Scott Marks: Latino Film Festival","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}