Familia rodante (2004)
(Rolling Family)
Country: ARG/BRA/FR/GER/SP/GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Graciana Chironi, Liliana Capurro, Nicolás López
Synopsis:
A Buenos Aires grandma announces at her 84th birthday party that she has been asked to act as maid of honour at her niece's wedding, and all the extended family is pressed into the son-in-law's camper van to travel the 1000 kilometres to the Brazilian border for the ceremony.
Review:
All human folly is here as Trapero squeezes his variously dysfunctional family into a space far too small surely to accommodate a camera and film crew. Our faces pressed up against the close-up action, we witness as cousin dallies with cousin, and wife with brother-in-law, not to mention the punch-ups and breakdowns (of a mechanical as well as marital variety). A distinctly grimy and sweaty road movie, then, but eminently watchable as a humane comedy of family dynamics, with a contemplative pay-off as the grandma finally earns her place in the shade on a green hilltop.
(Rolling Family)
Country: ARG/BRA/FR/GER/SP/GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Graciana Chironi, Liliana Capurro, Nicolás López
Synopsis:
A Buenos Aires grandma announces at her 84th birthday party that she has been asked to act as maid of honour at her niece's wedding, and all the extended family is pressed into the son-in-law's camper van to travel the 1000 kilometres to the Brazilian border for the ceremony.
Review:
All human folly is here as Trapero squeezes his variously dysfunctional family into a space far too small surely to accommodate a camera and film crew. Our faces pressed up against the close-up action, we witness as cousin dallies with cousin, and wife with brother-in-law, not to mention the punch-ups and breakdowns (of a mechanical as well as marital variety). A distinctly grimy and sweaty road movie, then, but eminently watchable as a humane comedy of family dynamics, with a contemplative pay-off as the grandma finally earns her place in the shade on a green hilltop.
(Rolling Family)
Country: ARG/BRA/FR/GER/SP/GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Graciana Chironi, Liliana Capurro, Nicolás López
Synopsis:
A Buenos Aires grandma announces at her 84th birthday party that she has been asked to act as maid of honour at her niece's wedding, and all the extended family is pressed into the son-in-law's camper van to travel the 1000 kilometres to the Brazilian border for the ceremony.
Review:
All human folly is here as Trapero squeezes his variously dysfunctional family into a space far too small surely to accommodate a camera and film crew. Our faces pressed up against the close-up action, we witness as cousin dallies with cousin, and wife with brother-in-law, not to mention the punch-ups and breakdowns (of a mechanical as well as marital variety). A distinctly grimy and sweaty road movie, then, but eminently watchable as a humane comedy of family dynamics, with a contemplative pay-off as the grandma finally earns her place in the shade on a green hilltop.