Familia is a drama movie directed by Rodrigo García starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ilse Salas, and Cassandra Ciangherotti.
A family gathering serves Rodrigo García to create this solid and simple character-driven film that seeks naturalness in all aspects: acting, script, and narrative.
A way of crafting a very smooth and easy-to-watch film, while being aesthetic, with complex characters.
A different Christmas in a family gathering that feels somewhat like time during each Christmas: everything has changed and will never return.
Good movie.
About “Familia”
Above all, a very natural film that is very easy to watch: an ensemble film built on a very solid script that knows exactly where it is going and how to achieve it: seemingly, there are no narrative tricks or deep twists (except for the sale of the business), and everything unfolds in a slow, balanced, and fluid manner throughout a day.
But the story is very dramatic, and it is not told with dramatic effect: the time that never returns, everything that has changed, and the present that has already passed while we enjoy it.
“Familia” is a film about the tragedy of time, about family relationships, and about how this world, without us realizing it, has changed a little while we contemplate it.
Christmas is not a joyful period if you think about it in this sense, if you remember what is no longer there, although it is also (as the movie says) a time of illusion, mature in this case, to settle and keep fighting, keep living.
“Familia” is a complex film in all its absolute simplicity, very well written and directed so that the director (also the screenwriter) takes a back seat: what matters are the characters and their situations, their small dramas of love and reunions, none of them overly dramatic.
The actors must have enjoyed themselves, for sure, in this film that allows them to display their acting talents. A film that can be watched and, above all, can also be acted upon.
Our opinion
It’s worth it for being different, for achieving a very slow reflection on time, on what has gone and what, at this very moment, is already leaving.
Release date
December 15, 2023
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