Steven Spielberg has dived into almost all genres getting many memorable movies.
Others less.
Logical.
You cannot and should not be sublime all the time.
He directs the first one in his early twenties, and it's the tense, threatening, and mysterious
The Devil on Wheels.
He is now 76. The right age to talk about his childhood, his adolescence and his early youth.
Also from her family.
And of her prodigious and never extinguished passion for something called cinema.
She has helped him to be happy, or at least to make many generations of viewers happy in all parts of the world.
Success has always allowed him to tell what he wants.
The creator and the producer coexist in his personality.
The former is very powerful and artistic, the latter never loses sight of the box office.
That has influenced some complacent endings to extraordinary movies.
Does not matter.
His name is Spielberg.
The cinema and the public have an unpayable debt with what has been invented for an infinite time.
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His latest work is titled
Los Fabelmans.
It would seem impudent to call them
The Spielbergs,
even if no one could sue him for it.
And in it there is everything.
Joy, but also sadness.
And many discoveries.
Some gloomy.
Others amazing, of those that mark a lifetime.
Parents take a three or four year old child into the dark room for the first time.
And the creature lives that experience as a miracle.
It has happened to many people.
With the difference that we have all dedicated ourselves to enjoying it and that child will discover that he can explain the world, capture reality, narrate fictions through what he is capable of expressing his camera.
He uses it to film his parents, his sisters and a lovely friend of his father who lives with them.
Michelle Williams (left) and Mateo Zoryan, in 'The Fabelmans'.
The camera will give you very pleasant surprises and other disturbing ones that will change the course of your beloved family.
This vocation will also allow him to settle accounts with the grievances that some bullies give him at school, to film his first loves, to feel that his intelligence, his heart, his certainties, his discoveries, his way of relating to others and his dreams acquire form and meaning through images.
Apparently, there is nothing fascinating about this introverted kid, neither nice nor unfriendly, with limited expressiveness, far from brilliance, with no interest in social life.
But his brain is very powerful and the camera's viewfinder will allow him to speak of the universe with a magical language.
He is a master at describing adventures, but he can also move you, create terror,
Schindler's list.
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Los Fabelmans
is not perfect, it has downs, it doesn't cause a feeling of falling in love, but it has admirable and complex moments.
The joy of that family is threatened by disenchantment and darkness.
That very vital, playful and nice mother can make decisions on behalf of what her heart demands that sow pain and separation in those who were so happy.
There is a sequence that seems wonderful to me.
It is the meeting between that young man who has landed his first job in the industry with a supreme artist, also a supposedly surly, bewildering and feared man named John Ford.
This poet who hated that others talked about his undeniable lyricism assures the wise apprentice with forceful expressiveness that the essence of cinema is on the horizon.
And the kid is stunned and grateful, although it is not clear that he always listened to him.
I imagine that Spielberg has been at peace with the memories of him filming his memories, exorcising old fears, trying to explain himself.
The Fabelmans
gives off a feeling of truth and has nuances.
Very appreciable virtues in the midst of the tons of mediocrity that Hollywood cinema (also that of other places) has released in recent years.
The Fabelmans
Directed by:
Steven Spielberg.
Cast:
Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch.
Genre:
drama.
United States, 2022.
Duration:
151 minutes.
Premiere: February 10.
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