Madrid (EFE).- Two of the most anticipated (and most different) films of the summer, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, finally arrive in theaters, so the incongruous fight among viewers suggested on the networks – the so-called “barbieheimer” – can already have a solution: watch one after the other. And tomorrow add a Spanish, a Colombian or a horror one.
This is how an early billboard arrives this Thursday with the premieres of “Oppenheimer”, by the American Christopher Nolan, a biopic of the famous nuclear physicist, and “Barbie”, the version with real people -no less than the actors Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (Barbie and Ken)- of the alleged life of the most famous doll in the world, much better known than the American physicist of Jewish origin.
“Oppenheimer”: spectacular reflection on life and death
The twelfth feature film by this movie wizard Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” is a 180-minute film that tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role as developer of the atomic bomb.
Based on the book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer”, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan himself has written an addictive and overwhelming script for a luxury cast led by Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, and Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss, the man from the government who gave the green light to the construction of the lethal device.
“Barbie”: impossible biopic of a doll who wanted to be perfect
The ‘mumblecore’ Greta Gerwig, known for films like “Lady Bird” (2017), has written, together with Noah Baumbach (screenwriter of three Oscar-nominated works), the impossible story of the life of the most famous doll on the planet, Barbie (played by Margot Robbie).
Accompanied by her inseparable Ken (unusual and blond Ryan Gosling), the film takes place in BarbieLand, a perfect world, full of parties and color, although Barbie begins to ask herself uncomfortable questions that do not fit in that idyllic world. After checking that she can put her heels on the ground, the doll decides to put on some shoes without heels and travel to the real world.
“Land of our mothers”: tell the truth, even if you are a goat
Liz Lobato, an actress from Madrid with a career spanning over twenty years, writes, directs and produces her first feature film, the comedy with surreal overtones “Tierra de nuestras madres”, a proposal told in black and white in which a return to roots is claimed and, incidentally, humorously denounces the corruption and madness of the new times.
Emilia, Rosario’s goat, tells the story of its owner in off-screen -played by Saturnino García in a state of grace-, the only one who stands up to the Chinese speculators who want to buy Villacarrizo, a beautiful town in La Mancha at the time, now ruined by the gambling of its inhabitants and marked by its history of resistance to the French invasion.
“The pack”: brutal therapy to start over
The film director Andrés Ramírez Pulido takes the prison drama “La jauría” to the depths of the Colombian tropical jungle where a group of “enlightened” soldiers wants to start an experimental rehabilitation center for adolescents, imprisoned by murderers and criminals.
Eliú (Jhojan Estiven Jiménez), a country boy, and his friend El Mono (Maicol Andrés Jiménez), purge the cold-blooded murder of a man in the center run by ‘the leader’, a former military man convinced that strenuous physical labor and intense group therapy will achieve repentance and conversion. Until El Mono escapes.
“Insidious: the red door”, fifth and last episode of the saga
Patrick Wilson (leading actor of the first “Insidious”, 2010) is the debuting director of this fifth installment from Blumhouse Productions, the last chapter of the horror saga, which returns to the original cast of the horror franchise, with the Lambert family back almost ten years after the events of Chapter 2.
To finally put his demons to rest, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins), already a college student, must go deeper into “the Afterlife” than they’ve ever gone before, encountering their family’s dark past and the countless terrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.
Toni Collette and Mónica Belluchi, laughing in “Mafia mamma”
Veteran American director Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight”, 2008, “Miss Bala”, 2019) signs this gangster comedy that follows the peculiar adventures of an American mother, Kristin Balbano (Toni Collette), who must travel to Rome to attend her grandfather’s funeral.
There he discovers that the family business is a criminal organization and that his rivals are now targeting the Balbanos; Led by her trusted “consegliere,” Bianca (Monica Belluchi), Kristin must take the reins, following her grandfather’s wishes.
And in Filmin, the autobiography of Valeria Tedeschi “The great youth”
“The Great Youth” is a 2022 French comedy-drama in which actress and director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi recalls her time as an acting student at one of France’s most prestigious performing arts academies and her journey through the ups and downs of art and love.