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ACTOR
Albi De AbreuMiguel Ángel LandaGabriel MantillaMarisa Roman
DIRECTOR
Olegario Barrera
SYNOPSICS
El Manzano Azul (2012) is a Spanish movie. Olegario Barrera has directed this movie. Albi De Abreu,Miguel Ángel Landa,Gabriel Mantilla,Marisa Roman are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2012. El Manzano Azul (2012) is considered one of the best Drama,Family movie in India and around the world.
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Nice Story on an Andes Setting
City boy from divorced parents is sent out to the Venezuelan Andean mountains to spend time with his maternal grandfather. Although the story is straightforward, the mood is relaxing and the humor is light enough to take you smoothly through its 120-minute run time. Acting from Miguelangel Landa and the boy is of a great quality. Mr Landa has been in notable local movies like "Cangrejo" and is refreshingly good portraying a sick old man with stories to tell. The cinematography is excellent, with the foggy "páramos" (essentially cold mountains with sparse vegetation) as the backdrop. Editing is well done, shifting from the older narrator to the younger protagonist in a way that moves the story forward. Although there are some clear anachronisms (201x model car in a 20-year flashback?), the movie leaves a good feeling of Venezuelan cinema.
A city boy travels to the mountains to live with his grandfather
EL MANZANO AZUL (Oligario Barrera, Venezuela -2012) Olegario Barrero is an extremely sensitive director. With "Pequeña Revancha" one of his first features, he established himself as an astute and acute observer of people's actions and reactions in the midst a political environment... This second feature, which concerns us, now, deals with a young man from the city, accustomed to be surrounded by cellular phones, games, TV and other pollution of the Social Network. The child is forcefully introduced to a "simpler", "down to Earth life" in the Páramo high mountains of the Venezuelan Andes. Although the rhythm of their lives seem to be nearer the soil, and "simple things", a conflict is erupts. A real state developer is determined to transform this easygoing paradise into a modern city. The rustic grandfather and the children fight back and win. The greatest praise that I have for the film is overall exceptional acting: Miguel Ángel Landa, playing the grandfather. Landa has been one of the most prolific actors from Venezuela, but this role is different than when he plays, among others, cops, lowlife or military persons, etc. In this film Landa plays a more intelligent and caring person, full of the wisdom that age brings. His character has a great human depth. Gabriel Mantilla, the male child is completely believable and the spectator watches the change in the boy as he grows in the film. The young girl is also poignant and moving. The direction of photography is by Cezary Jaworski, a Lodz Polish Film School graduate. Jaworski has been working in Venezuela for many years and has received many photography prizes and works within a style well suited to the story. Since "El Manzano Azul" is not a "realistic" film, the light comes from many sources, some not fully justified. Jaworski lights in location in a traditional studio fashion, but every frame is beautiful to look at. This a traditional film well made and sometimes touching. I recommend that people go to see it on our screens.
A Simple and Beautiful Story
A boy of about ten or eleven must spend the summer at his grandfather (the boy barely knows his grandpa). The boy comes from a big city where the universe has smartphone, cable TV, and Internet as natural coordinates. The grandpa lives in a remote village in the mountains, where the universe is deprived even of electricity and bathroom. People in the village look like from another planet, and boys of his age are overtly hostile. Generally everything seems to be charged with an incomprehensible level of brutality. Add to this the traumas the boy carries with him from the city: the father has left the family to come back only in very short flashbacks in the boy's nightly dreams. All this makes the little boy very reluctant towards his grandpa and towards everybody and everything there. Well, the grandpa is patient and tactful, and little by little he succeeds to communicate his own balance to the boy. And so the boy starts progressively to open himself to the new universe and get more and more fascinated by the knowns and unknowns there. There is something beyond the incomprehensible brutality: a genuine collective solidarity against the potential evil coming from outside. Once you are accepted, you'll bee protected. This grandpa seems to carry wonderful mysteries, the same as the blue apple tree near the house. It's for the boy the beginning of a lifelong fascination for the place, and he will come back in the years that follow, and will marry the girl he met here in the village during that summer of long time ago. A simple and beautiful story that is recomposed through the memories of the adult who once was a boy of about ten or eleven, and who has inherited from his grandpa that wonderful balance in approaching the knowns and unknowns in life. That is El Manzano Azul (The Blue Apple Tree), the 2012 movie of Venezuelan director Olegario Barrera. The grandpa is played by an unforgettable actor, Miguel Ángel Landa.