Four films to see this week – Observer

Every once in a while, they land in the rooms each eccentric movies, stemmed small or distant cinematography, which collect prizes in festivals and travel well, wherever you send them. This is the case of “Sheep”, arrived from Iceland and performed by Grimur Hákonarson. Won the parallel section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Festival 2015 and several awards in other festivals, and was applauded from Australia to Iran. It is a film about the importance of sheep in the history, economy, culture and social life of Icelanders revealed through a story of brotherly love, led by two brothers who create sheep and despite being neighbors, they are incompatibilizados 40 years ago. And if it was because of sheep were angry when they were young, it is because of the sheep, and a terrible disease that strikes them, which will resume family ties. If you are looking for a film set in the antipodes of the “blockbusters” of summer, look no further:. Is this circumspect tragicomedy about men and sheep “made in” Iceland

Presenting itself as a romantic comedy last in the music world, the first feature film written by Nuno Markl with conducting Luis Galvao Teles, is another example of the challenge in Portugal to make cinema “mainstream” palatable to the public and the ticket office. There are brands of the fertile imagination of the original to the will and the peculiar sense of humor Nuno Markl everywhere, from history to the design of the characters and situations in which they are involved (Ivo Canelas is a musician who belonged to a successful duo and now is living composing “jingles” advertising, and that falls in love with a girl who knows only the voice, because she refuses to get the fact color pink dinossaura using to promote a juice the soft drink company that hired), but the movie is incoherent, chaotic, loud and striatum of sub-plots, and has a wealth of interests and ridiculous or free appearances of people music. With a well-buffed and polished argument, and a realization that did not confuse comedy with general over-excitement, “Sodas and Love Songs” would have been perfectly consumable rather than stodgy.

The five years since the death the director Raúl Ruiz, as well as the 75th anniversary of his birth, are the pretext for the replacement of “Mysteries of Lisbon” in its version for film and the television series in six episodes, remastered. Showing Camilo Castelo Branco in the movies can – and should – be more than “Doomed Love”, Ruiz and screenwriter Carlos Saboga managed to transport to images of more than 600 pages of this book was born as a newspaper serial, without getting lost, and leave us clueless, in the dense, busy and povoadíssimo plot, which aligns and moves dozens of characters across several generations and many countries and accumulating shenanigans. Cast, among others, included Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Afonso Pimentel, Albano Jerónimo, Joan of Verona, Rui Morrison, Lea Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, Catarina Wallenstein, Carloto Cotta or Clotilde Hesme.

in the beginning, in 1966, there was a television series created by Gene Roddenberry. He was born a brand, a cult and a multimillion-dollar business. “Star Trek: Beyond the Universe,” debuts just in time 50 years of “Star Trek.” It is the 13th feature film, and the third of the new film incarnation. The action takes place in an alternate timeline, the “Kelvin timeline” in which the characters of the original series are still young, but already form the crew of the ‘Enterprise’. JJ Abrams is still linked to production, but spent accomplishment for Justin Lin, the man who gave new life to the series of films “Fast and the Furious.” Co-written by English actor Simon Pegg, who also plays the character Mr. Scott, this should be the last tape in the series, the one that most strives not only to cultivate the next generation of “Trekkies,” but also to please the older fans, although sentenced to stereotypical format, the encoded digital gigantism and pageantry of blockbusters factory mass of American cinema. “Star Trek: Beyond the Universe” was chosen as a movie of the week by the Observer, and can read the review here