What movies to see at Easter: five recommendations for platforms and five for rooms

On vacation, you can turn to the topic and recover time to read, but you can also take advantage of it to enjoy movies that have gone unnoticed on the billboard and that deserved more consideration or outstanding titles in the latest releases on digital platforms.

Here is a selection of ten films that, luckily, are by no means the only ones available.

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Among the chosen ones, Irish dramas, extreme boxing matches, broken couples, unfinished love affairs, elite assassins or mothers who deny their condition.

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The penalty.

The Chilean Matías Bize has been constructing, film by film, a moral x-ray of the human being.

His latest film features one of the great actresses in Spanish, Antonia Zegers

a candidate for this Platinum award for best performance in Ibero-American cinema, as a mother fed up with her role as the parent of a child complicated, with which he also finds no emotional connection.

The last 20 minutes of the film are a festival of Zegers, who embroiders a painful confession before the camera: "I am not a bad mother."

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Trailer for 'The Quiet Girl'

Catherine Clinch in 'The Quiet Girl'.

The Quiet Girl.

This small, exquisite film is still on the bill, immensely more complex than its simple story appears;

and that it came to be nominated for an Oscar for best international film.

In rural Ireland in 1981, a girl emotionally crushed by her family finds a partner during the summer months who cares for her and treats her with respect.

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Trailer for 'Chronicle of an ephemeral love'

Vincent Macaigne and Sandrine Kiberlain, in 'Chronicle of an ephemeral love'.

Chronicle of an ephemeral love.

Another film that seems light to reach immense depths, this time in the field of sentimental love.

For years two lovers intertwine their steps without rhythm.

In perpetual movement before the camera (which warns the viewer that they will never find calm), his characters resemble those of François Truffaut.

Now, his dialogues smell like Woody Allen and the whole group, like Sacha Guitry.

The French Emmanuel Mouret, its director, grows in each love drama that he premieres.

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Trailer for 'Creed III'

Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan, in 'Creed III'.

Believe III.

Rocky is to those born in the second half of the 20th century what Adonis Creed (son of Apollo, first a rival and then a friend of the Philadelphia boxer) is to the new generations of adolescents of this century.

Sylvester Stallone recounted that when he included rap themes in his

(2006) to renew his image, the public in previous screenings turned against that decision, and the filmmaker resorted to the usual fanfare that accompanies his character. .

With

there are no tolls and a praise to African-American culture.

In addition, its protagonist, Michael B. Jordan, who also directs it, has understood that he is rewriting boxing in the cinema for this new viewer.

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Trailer for 'The Banshees of Inisherin'

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in an image from 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.

Banshees of Inisherin.

This film can be recovered both in theaters and already enjoyed on the Disney+ platform (where it appears renamed

Martin McDonagh's new drama talks about the misunderstanding and vital suffocation that can be felt in small towns, in places where a discordant voice may not be understood.

He also dives into family love, friendship, and how, in the words of one of his actors, Colin Farrell, "joie de vivre disintegrates."

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Tetris.

One of the three best-selling video games in history is

Designed and programmed by Soviet computer scientist Alekséi Pajitnov, it was launched on June 6, 1984. Its name comes from the Greek prefix

(four) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.

Dutch video game salesman Henk Rogers, who lived in Japan, understood his greatness and simplicity when he saw him at a convention in Las Vegas, and fought for the rights to

that led it to be available on the Game Boy and worldwide success.

The film is a beautiful dramatization of those years (both Pajitnov and Rogers read the script and then said that "but this was not the case"), well narrated.

Behind the project, as a warper, a filmmaker with a nose: Matthew Vaughn.

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Trailer for 'The Boston Strangler'

Keira Knightley in 'The Boston Strangler'.

The Boston Strangler

For half a century, the history of the Boston Strangler (or stranglers) was marked by the Richard Fleischer film with Tony Curtis as the only serial killer.

However, the reality was much more complex and surrounded by unknowns.

This new

focuses on the journalistic work of two reporters, Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole of the

who connected the crimes, and on screen their work is intelligently and entertainingly told.

Boksoon must die.

The Korean audiovisual seems to have no end.

The Easter action movie stems from there, and tells the story of a contract killer, who is good at her job... if not so good at her teenage motherhood.

Jeon Do-yeon, its protagonist, is not just anyone: winner with

of the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2007, narrative engine in

(2010), Jeon is now an action heroine thanks to

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Trailer of 'Suro'

Pol López and Vicky Luengo, in 'Suro'.

suro.

In the tremendous harvest of good Spanish cinema in 2022, some titles went too unnoticed for their quality.

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despite her double Goya nomination —for best new director (Mikel Gurrea) and for best leading actress (Vicky Luengo)— and her three Gaudí awards.

It deserves to be recovered on platforms.

The story of the rottenness of a couple who believe in an idyllic future in the countryside speaks of crises that are far from asphalt and absolutely timeless, like a good Greek tragedy.

'Living' trailer

Bill Nighy, in 'Living'.

Living room.

The Nobel Prize winner for literature Kazuo Ishiguro received a job offer in the cinema, and for this reason he adapted

by Akira Kurosawa, transferring it to London in the fifties (which is the same time in which the original takes place).

After being diagnosed with cancer, an obscure civil servant decides to carry out one last act of social good.

comes together, among other good reasons, because Bill Nighy, its protagonist, makes the character of the bureaucrat his own.

Both Nighy and Ishiguro earned Oscar nominations.