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Sep 30, 2019 · Spanish-Chilean helmer Theo Court ('Ocaso') won the Venice Horizons best director award for his bitterly ironic period piece probing genocide and aesthetics, 'Blanco en blanco.'
Sep 6, 2019 · The difficult history of South America’s Tierra del Fuego informs Blanco En Blanco ( White On White), an exacting, disquieting film about the corrupting influence of beauty and power.
Dec 23, 2021 · Spanish-Chilean director Théo Court's White on White (Blanco en Blanco) takes us to Argentina's Tierra Del Fuego in the first few decades of the twentieth century as white speculators and landowners carve up the rugged landscape, extract its resources, and advance a brutal genocide against the native population. The filmmaker.
Featured review. 5/10. Mediocre & highly sanitized. Very loosely based on the real and very evil life of Griselda Blanco who was a notorious drug lord in 80s Miami. She was murderous, psychopathic, and paranoid among other verifiable facts.
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- Blanco en Blanco: Conclusion
There are many elements in Théo Court‘s film that underwhelm, disappoint and frustrate. To start, one of those elements is the film’s pacing. For a film that has a running time of just over ninety nine minutes, it gives the impression it could rival with Terrence Malick‘s 3-hour long A Hidden Lifeand its boredom. Court‘s film utilises long intense ...
It is perhaps an oxymoronic compliment that such a thematically bland and hollow feature looks extraordinarily beautiful. The cinematography from José Alayón is richwith shots that look nothing short of stunning throughout. There is a beautifully vivid and abstract style implemented that has an aesthetic not too dissimilar to that of a painting. It...
There is so much in Blanco en Blanco that disappoints. It is lacking in thematic weight, and the way it explores hard-hitting topics comes across hollow. The central performance from Alfredo Castro has so much potential to be a deeply gripping, harrowing character study, but flounders due to a lack of direction and limited exploration. Blanco en Bl...
Sep 3, 2019 · Violent and unforgiving, there is a certain beauty in the harshness of the land. But beauty can become a corrupting obsession, and complicity in violence lies just around the corner, as Théo Court shows in his second feature Blanco en blanco.
Apr 2, 2022 · DIRECTOR: Théo Court. WRITERS: Théo Court, Samuel M. Delgado. SYNOPSIS: A photographer arrives in Tierra del Fuego to photograph the child bride of a powerful local landowner. Blanco en blanco – trailer | IFFR 2020. Watch on.
