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Chile '76 a film of different sides
By GalaTView staff
Photos courtesy Cinema Tropical
An important Chilean film is coming with Chile ’76 (1976) by Manuela Martelli and Francisca Alegría.
All begins in the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship; Chile ’76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. The story unfolds as she heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while her husband, children, and grandchildren visit on and off, bringing reminders of the world beyond. When the family priest asks her to take care of an injured young man he has been sheltering in secret, Carmen is inadvertently drawn into the world of the Chilean political opposition and must face real-world threats she is unprepared to handle, with potentially disastrous consequences for her and her entire family.
Psychologically all characters have a fear, all the political movements of that time affect directly to their social life. Some characters suffer paranoia and heroic moments as well. While a dark moment reflect the reality of that time, the main characters face margination, suffering and power of decision. Definitely, a film that must be seen.
The Lion King is roaring in LA
By GalaTView Staff
Photos by Broadway in Hollywood
Broadway Theater returns again at Pantages Theater, California. The Lion King, The Award winning best Musical is back with a great spectacle where a lot of people around the world have experienced the awe-inspiring visual artistry. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But Scar, Mufasa’s brother has different thoughts of the real kingdom of African Pride Lands. This musical will make you laugh and suffer with the beautiful lion cub and friends. Music, costumes and performers were incredibly prepared for all songs. There was a full orchestra in the pit and two percussion sections on both sides of the stage. Characters managed their body language very well and certainly allows for anyone to follow the whole story. To see actors singing and dancing at the same time was very enjoyable. Humor was very remarkable with talented dancers so the play was absolutely stunning. This play includes the best cast for its impressive special sound effects and props. The story keeps the essence of the book and it will be able to capture you more, and you can really use your imagination as part of the animation of the best musical play. The energy of the cast and the creativity of the animal portrayals are unique. Definitely, it is a highly recommended show for everybody.
Little Orphan Annie will surprise Los Angeles for this season
By GalaTView Staff
Photos by:Courtesy – Broadway in Hollywood
Photos Credited Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade
For this year, from November 29 to December 18, 2022, The Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd | Los Angeles, CA 90028 will play “Annie” as part of the best Musical of the year. This play has been opened on Broadway on April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theatre (Neil Simon theatre). It went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
Little Orphan Annie has reminded generations of theatergoers that sunshine is always right around the corner, This celebration of family, optimism and the American spirit remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way. This new multi-week tour is produced by TROIKA Entertainment.
Annie is directed by Jenn Thompson, so in the title role of Annie is Ellie Pulsifer, a 12-year-old actress from South Florida, making her tour debut. Christopher Swan will star as Oliver Warbucks. In the role of Miss Hannigan is Stefanie Londino. Also starring in the tour are Julia Nicole Hunter as Grace, Nick Bernardi as Rooster, Krista Curry as Lily and Mark Woodard as FDR and more characters.The show remains one of the biggest Broadway musical hits ever; it has been performed in 28 languages and has been running somewhere around the world for 45 years.
Parental Advisory: Recommended for all ages. So runtime will be for 2 hours and 30 minutes including intermission. Definitely, theater for Musicals must be special and this year will not be an exception.
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE
By Jenny Alvarez
Photo by Courtesy Blue Fox Entertainment
From the well-known director Eleanor Coppola (Paris Can Wait, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse), LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE tells three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. In the film’s first story TWO FOR DINNER, a married couple (Joanne Whalley and Chris Messina) find an unconventional way to transcend long distance through technology, but discover they were farther apart than they knew. In SAILING LESSON, a long-married couple (Kathy Baker and Marshall Bell) tries to reignite their honeymoon-phase heat through a spontaneous sailing trip… and unexpected events arise. And in LATE LUNCH, a young woman (Maya Kazan) who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends (including Cybill Shepherd, Rosanna Arquette, and Rita Wilson) to share memories. Surprising revelations ensue.
Definitely, this film makes it memorable because talks about love in different forms so the viewer might make it predictable but at the end is unsatisfactory. Love usually refers to an experience one person feels for another. Love often involves caring for, or identifying with, a person or thing but here all elements are not clear for most of the characters. A film worth to see in order to think about what is love?
Throughout all three stories, Coppola uses a light touch and naturalistic ease to find the heart of the deepest friendships and romances.
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE was produced by Anahid Nazarian (Tetro, Youth Without Youth), and is an American Zoetrope production. It premiered at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival and was also an official 2020 Tribeca Film Festival selection.
Blue Fox Entertainment will release LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE on VOD Tuesday, December 14.
Violet is not always the best choice color in our lives
By Alfonso De Elias
Photo: Courtesy of SXSW
This highly recommended film for all human beings because talks about the story of “Violet” with Olivia Munn. A girl has post-traumatic trauma are those types of traumas that come from childhood and make several loud electronic humming noises causes Violet’s ears to ring. Due to no have a united family nucleus, this type of trauma, causes remorse and personal problems from childhood. Anxiety produces erratic behaviors and Violet describes distractions as “the committee,” of hostile thoughts. Despite of being in the entertaining field, especially reviewing scripts that make her earn decent money; her relationship with some studio executives are a deep matter to Violet and her interior voice. Violet shows in her life process to have hallucinations that cause her to hear voices, sounds and environmental noises with thunderous acoustics, this causes disorder in the ideas that brain neurotransmitters emit to the central nervous system causing unusual behaviors where it affects Violet to be able to lead a life stable and healthy at work, with her brother and mother and in her intimate life.
Undoubtedly this film is the best model to reflect in a deep way how people in the United States struggle with this type of serious mental disorder.
