Which
Steven Spielberg
do you prefer?
The one from action and adventure movies, the one from blockbusters like
Raiders of the Lost Ark
,
ET
,
Jurassic Park
or
Minority Report
, or the more "serious"
one from Schindler's List
?
The Fabelmans
is decidedly far from the first titles, but it maintains a link with all of Spielberg's filmography: the mastery of narrating images.
Spielberg productions are often cinematic experiences.
They are films to feel with the body, with the heart or with something more ethereal like the soul, and sometimes they make you think.
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Gabriel LaBelle as Sammy, Spielberg's alter ego.
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The Fabelmans
is the filmmaker's most personal film, as much as
Schindler's List
was , but in this case what he tells is very similar to his own life, to his experiences as a young man.
Also, it's a Hollywood movie about Hollywood.
It is not Spielberg's life, let's say it is the Hollywood version of his existence, his adolescence, his family and his beginnings in the cinema.
There is nothing more beautiful than a united family.
Well not so much.
After all, the genius of entertainment cinema refers to himself in this 150-minute story, which includes the complex relationship with (and of) his parents and many winks that those who love and know the career of the
Jaws
director will rub their shoulders. hands (yes: there is the short in which he achieves "special effects" in the desert...).
To say that a Spielberg film is at times languid would be almost obscene.
Let's say that in
Los Fabelmans
-and come one by one- there are potholes, in which it falls and not much happens, as happened in
The Giant Good Friend
.
Or it changes axis, because the script that he wrote with Tony Kushner - fourth collaboration, after
Munich
,
Lincoln
and
Love without barriers
- takes bullying or anti-Semitism, perhaps with a brushstroke instead of a brushstroke.
Michelle Williams is the mother.
Heath Ledger's ex reached her fifth Oscar nomination with "The Fabelmans."
But there is the final image, with which the film ends and where all the magic is resumed and Spielberg puts us back in his pocket.
The plot has Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), living with his sisters and his parents (Michelle Williams and Paul Dano), who live an imperfect marriage.
A friend of the father's (Seth Rogen), well, it has something to do with that imperfection.
If you search you will find.
Sammy and a roll of revealing Super 8mm.
But the film, we said, shows love for the family and also for the cinema.
Spielberg is melancholic, compassionate and indulgent in The Fabelmans as he has never been in these dimensions.
As for the autobiographical overtones, he has more to do with what Woody Allen did in
Radio Days
than Fellini did with
Amarcord
.
They are there, on the screen, the first movie he saw (The Greatest Show on Earth), his first home shootings and the meeting at Paramount with John Ford (impressive cameo by
David Lynch
).
And also the music of
John Williams
, his friend, with whom he will meet again in the next installment of the Oscar, for which
Los Fabelman
arrives with seven nominations.
As I said: it's Hollywood loving Hollywood.
"The Fabelmans"
Good
Drama.
USA, 2022.
Original title:
“The Fabelmans”
.
151', SAM 13.
From:
Steven Spielberg.
With:
Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch.
Cinemas:
Cinépolis Recoleta and Avellaneda, Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo, Showcase Quilmes and Haedo.
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