2024-05-18 03:01:00
REAS 8 factors
(Argentina/Switzerland/Germany, 2024)
Path and script: Lola Arias.
Length: 82 minutes.
Interpreters: Yoseli Arias, Ignacio Amador Rodriguez, Estefy Harcastle, Carla Canteros, Noelia LaDiosa.
Premiere completely at El Cultural San Martín.
“After I was writing the movie and likewise throughout rehearsals, our largest hazard was ‘jail realism.’ Our movie couldn’t be a type of sequence that stigmatize folks, that flip jail right into a spectacle of violence.” The phrases of the playwright, theater director and filmmaker Lola Ariasrevealed in Web page 12 on the event of the premiere of his second characteristic movie within the final Berlin Competition, they shoot towards a transparent formal and moral enemy: the generic tales of “tumbaro” dramas which have turn out to be a up to date audiovisual style, with their codes, iconography and native clichés. Nothing may very well be farther from it than Reasa movie that (re)makes use of the advantages of an virtually extinct cinematographic territory, the musical, to construct a wildly idiosyncratic however, on the identical time, simply recognizable universe.
As in his earlier film-theatrical diptych, composed of the movie theater of struggle and the work Minefieldeach starring Malvinas veterans from each side, Reas and the piece that accompanies it on the boards, The times outdoors, are unbiased however complementary creations. The identical solid of non-professional actors (or non-actors) take the stage and inhabit the display screen: a bunch of cis girls and trans women and men, in all instances individuals who spent a number of years within the Ezeiza jail, reconstructing with the weapons of creativeness their life tales and likewise their hopes. On the base of all the things is Arias’ fascination with “documentary theatre”, which is predicated on flesh-and-blood human beings and the strictest realities for the development of dramaturgy and staging. In Reas all the things is actual and all the things is fantasywhereas the women and a few boys rehearse dances within the jail yard, inform very important recollections from the opposite aspect of the partitions and dream of journeys overseas, when the time of the sentence is a factor of the previous.
Reas begins when Yoseli (Yoseli Arias), whose shoulder has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower, enters jail after being detained on the airport with a number of kilos of medication in her suitcase. Yoseli will start to fulfill her new neighbors, equivalent to Nacho (Ignacio Amador Rodríguez), a trans man with whom she shortly establishes an in depth bond, and different women who’re a part of a rock band. Jail rock, paraphrasing the well-known Elvis track, an occasion of enjoyment and freedom between the thickest bars. The jail guards additionally reside there, impolite girls who, nevertheless, can break down internally throughout a secret. Lola Arias transforms an deserted jail, the place Reas was filmed in its entirety, on an genuine movie set that can be a stage (the reference to the theatrical could be very robust within the director’s two movies), breaking the slippery idea of “realism”, as any Hollywood musical did. traditional, even in its “backstage” side.
Past Arias’ absolute management over the creative uncooked materials, it’s evident that in Reasas was already the case in theater of struggle, The idea of collaboration, the fixed forwards and backwards between director and solid all through the inventive course of, is important to the outcomes.. It could not be every other means: the transformation from actor to character right here requires immense mutual belief. In the end, and past the tales of ache and violence which can be intuited or made express behind the creatures (every character has his second of assessment of the previous), Reas It could not be a brighter movie., supported by {a photograph} of pop tones by Martín Benchimol. Luminous and even festive, since Arias doesn’t permit darkness to take possession of the jail house or the our bodies of the inmates. Reas It’s catharsis and exorcism, real therapeutic artwork.
Reas It’s exhibited at El Cultural San Martín on Saturday, Could 18 at 6 and eight p.m., on Sunday the nineteenth at 6 p.m. and on Sunday the twenty sixth at 4 and 6 p.m.
The play The times outdoors It has performances from Wednesday to Sunday at 8 p.m. on the Presidente Alvear Theater.