‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Is Powerful as a Filmmaker Directing His Estranged Daughter in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Making-of-a-Movie Drama
Javier Bardem plays a director who turns abusive as family resentment and on-set tension build during a Sahara-set production.
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‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Is a Hotheaded Director in Spanish Daughter-Daddy Drama in Search of a Better Script
Javier Bardem plays a hotheaded filmmaker, one of those “brilliant assholes” mostly incapable of making great art without wringing it out of tyrannical behavior, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Spanish industry drama “The Beloved.” The director of a memorable 2019 movie called “Madre,” a warped tale of motherhood in which a woman strikes up an affair with a dead ringer of her long-lost son, now turns his camera (or cameras, as Sorogoyen experiments with …
In Love, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the new prodigy of Spanish cinema, reveals his gaze like no other. As if his camera freed himself from the rules of production. The Beloved, in the run for the Palme d'or, is the story of a world famous director who returns to Spain to shoot his new film, located in the Sahara, former colony of Spain, but also to reconcile with his daughter once abandoned.
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Carries a Tense Behind-the-Scenes Father-Daughter Drama That Could Use a Little More Sentimental Value
Victoria Luengo co-stars in the latest feature from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen ('The Beasts'), who chronicles a movie shoot that flies off the rails.
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Is Powerful as a Filmmaker Directing His Estranged Daughter in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Making-of-a-Movie Drama
"The Beloved," unlike "Sentimental Value," really is one of those movies about the making of a movie, like "Day for Night" or "The Stunt Man." It’s a meaty and enjoyable entry in the genre, one that updates it to the present day, when it’s not as easy as it once was for a director to bully a cast and crew (and Esteban, make no mistake, is something of a bully).
The complicated thing is always to start. And we don’t say it so much, that also, like Newton’s first law, that of inertia that drags everything and that there is no way to stop...
The drama about a director returning to Spain to shoot a film about the Sahara and to reconcile with his daughter actress comes to the Competition: “It’s a history of abandonments”
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