It begins out with an intro rendered in 8-bit sprites, the horizontally scrolling script box transporting players again to the infancy of the medium — or simply seeding some formative nostalgia in youthful gamers for one thing they don’t know to love but. Having not performed the video games, I can solely presume that their mechanics come to bear on the film, which centers well-crafted problem-solving.
This Spanish purchase exists on the identical sliding scale of figurative opacity as Sunday’s Illness and the like, pushed all the best way to the farthest polarity. Which, full disclosure, is that this critic’s dignified method of admitting that he has no idea what’s going on here. I’d love to put in writing off my lack of comprehension as a forgivable result of unfamiliarity with the Basque-Catalan tensions rumbling in the subtext. But between the cows falling out of timber, the low-key organ theft, … Read More
