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Not all people are Happiness on Earth

By Jenny Alvarez

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I Am Happiness on Earth (Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo) by Mexican filmmaker Julián Hernández comes with a well structured cast by Hugo Catalán,Emiliano Arenales Osorio and Emilio von Sternerfels, beyond the point Julián mixes the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story centralizes in a group of male dancers, recording their defined, tight bodies in strong, energetic movements and soon forms an impassioned relationship with one of his subjects. Although the relationship is emotional, erotic and intense, Emiliano finds it impossible to remain faithful and enters into a series of sexual encounters with handsome street hustlers. Octavio, a wounded dancer but he refuses to acknowledge their relationship and is against gay marriage. Sometimes the characters dance through their roles and as they do, something magical happens to the viewer but there are another strong scenes full of sexual cores and nudity that would be justify if he power of betrayal and the melancholia in the main characters were more real. Even there is poetic romance; the real meaning is sad and tragic for the main characters in their lives. The exploration of the lack of love, sex, creativity, makes the result more controversial and clueless of the main Director’s message. As a viewer of independent movies this is the first time that I can’t defend a movie despite of all the stylistic elements that would have made it very well structured in the story.

More happiness for Eva Mendez

By GalaTView Staff

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Despite of this famous couple kept their pregnancy quiet, Eva Mendez and Ryan Gosling. Even they have short term planning and not necessarily a lifetime commitment their baby would be a blessed angel from heaven. This will be the first child for Mendes, 40, and Gosling, 33. Congratulations for the new parents!

Third Person is a movie with the deepest feelings

By Jenny Alvarez

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This film tells three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing in common and only tangential connections. But there is always a third person in any relationship — perhaps not romantically, perhaps you aren’t even aware of their existence, but they are there. The cast is very well selected led by Liam Neeson, Adrien Brody, Mila Kunis and James Franco. It’s emotional with European mystery style. Even is an odd script Kunis’s character turning up to clean hotel rooms in both Manhattan and France — aren’t just sloppy mistakes, but the idea was that she was suffering for her child. But the drama and intensity are elements for each character in a different manner. Michael (Neeson) is holed up in a Paris hotel working on his manuscript when his young lover (Olivia Wilde) arrives. This an intellectual couple but the bad part is that both tortures the other behind the backs of their respective lovers. In Michael’s case, his enormously understanding wife back in the States is played by Kim Basinger. In few words in 136 minutes, as a viewer you will be deeply involved in each character’s life. However,  there are several love scenes that are supposed to be torrid but seem icky and puzzle in which truth is revealed in glimpses, and clues are caught by the corner of your eye — and nothing is truly what it seems.

The Miracle Of Spanish Harlem will touch your heart in Christmas

By Jenny Alvarez

Here’s a feel good holiday movie titled, directed by Derek Velez Partridge, its stars Kate del Castillo, Adrian Martinez, Andre Royo, Tony Plana, Priscilla Lopez and Fatima Ptacek. The Miracle of Spanish Harlem is a magical romantic drama following the life of Tito Jimenez, a widower and father of two girls. Tito, holding down two jobs has trouble providing for his family and has lost his faith. Now, with a second chance at love, he is forced to make a decision that will drag him and his entire a family down a trail of love, faith and redemption that begins with a lie and ends with a surprisingly true miracle.

Faith and redemption are the main elements of this plot but “love” is the most important feeling for anything that you want to do. Latino actors played a well structured and important role for each part of the scenes. The most important Christmas present is the family unification and the filmmakers tried to show a warm,heavy-handed religious movies with a message full of hope so as spectator you will be surprised with higher expectations, due to the familiar faces in the cast.

Liam Hemsworth is unfaithful?

This good looking actor was photographed recently getting cozy with Mexican singer Eiza Gonzalez in Las Vegas, over ‘less than faithful’ behavior. Long overdue so she obviously has much more class, is much prettier AND sexy!

Love is All you Need with a great man

By Jenny Alvarez

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This movie is directed by Golden Globe® and Oscar® winning filmmaker Susanne Bier, written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm.  Philip (Brosnan), an Englishman living in Denmark, is a lonely, middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida (Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness, who’s just been left by her husband for a younger woman, Thilde. The fates of these two bruised souls are about to intertwine, as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip’s son and Ida’s daughter.  With warmth, affection and confidence, Susanne Bier has shaken a cocktail of love, loss, absurdity, humor, and delicately drawn characters that will leave only the hardest heart untouched. It is a film about the simple yet profound pains and joys of moving on – and forward – with your life.

This is so relentlessly unremarkable and has its touching and emotional moments especially for the drama of young love is, at least, usefully contrasted with the easy, laidback romance between Brosnan and Dyrholm. They’re at a stage in life when they’re no longer willing to pretend, or to conform to others’ expectations and it’s uplifting to watch.

Although is highly predictable story, all characters manage to evoke dislike, sympathy, pity, hope and happiness on screen. Definitely is a sunny, sweet, with a lovely cast, idyllic locations and fruitfully comic situations. Pleasingly endearing and will be open  in  LA & NY May 3, 2013. 

Renoir is a touch of love on a canvas

By Jenny Alvarez

Set on the French Riviera in 1915, RENOIR follows Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), who is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritis, and the news that his son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) has been wounded in action. When the incandescent Andrée, aka Dédé (newcomer Christa Théret,) miraculously enters his world, the artist is filled with an unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful Dédé will become Renoir’s last model inspiring some of his most renowned works including Les baigneuses (The Bathers). Back at the family home in Cagnes-sur-Mer to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden, and in the face of his father’s fierce opposition, he falls in love with this wild, untamable spirit, and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

This film has the complex relationship between father and son. Pierre-Auguste may be haunted by the loss of his younger wife and fearful of what might befall two of his sons serving during World War 1, but painting is still his life. Renoir includes his sense that wars shatter natural cross-border fraternities, the harshness of the class prejudices, the increasing disrespect for culture and also how his last muse was. This film is full of beautiful scenes of the countryside and some dialogues are plain but witty in some contents of Renoir’s canvasses into a visual blast of natural color and sound on the big screen full of romantic attentions in 111 minutes (A little long so you should be full of energy otherwise it could be very boring).

Shakira launches her "second skin"

By GalaTView Staff

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J-Lo and Enrique Iglesias Tour Together

Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias are “in discussion” to tour together this year. Nothing is confirmed, but reports have stated that the two hot Latin artists plan join together and tour this summer. Enrique had previously planned a tour with the pop star Britney Spears, but it failed to happen last summer. Lopez recently collaborated with Pitbull and created their hit song “Dance Again”, however no reports have stated that they plan to tour together.

Love is the triumph of imagination in “Goodbye First Love”

Review by Jenny Alvarez

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Goodbye First Love, now is available in some American movie theaters  since April 20th.  An acutely perceptive portrait of a bright young woman in the wake of her first romance.  Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with easy-going Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who reciprocates her feelings, mostly, but wants to be free to explore the world.  When he leaves her to travel through South America, she is devastated.  But over the next eight years, she develops into a more fully formed woman, with new interests and a new love—and the possibility that she’ll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.  Rendering scenes that showcase her extraordinary ability to evoke moods and feelings, Hansen-Løve takes the story of a girl’s first romance and makes it into a singular experience, familiar in its broad strokes and yet so specific that it feels uniquely personal.