Les distàncies (2018)
43KLes distàncies: Directed by Elena Trapé. With Alexandra Jiménez, Miki Esparbé, Isak Férriz, Bruno Sevilla. A weekend in Berlin. Five friends reunited for a celebration. Five lives turn upside-down.
“Four friends from Spain travel to Berlin to surprise a friend on his birthday. Things donu0026#39;t go well and tensions are revealed.nThis tedious movie has nothing new to say about anything and does so with a minimum of humor or interest.nThe movie is done by hand-held camera. The camera jerks constantly, even when focused on a character who isnu0026#39;t moving. I suppose this is meant to convey tension but for me it simply increased my boredom and annoyance and I found myself looking away it times.nI donu0026#39;t speak Spanish, so looking away meant missing the captions, yet I didnu0026#39;t get the sense that I missed anything because each scene dragged on and on to make its point.nOne further annoyance: when the Spanish-speaking characters encountered German speakers, the captions stop. This is a pretty common practice. Problem is, some of the actorsu0026#39; accents are so thick that their English is unintelligible. This wasnu0026#39;t too great a loss because no one was saying anything very interesting anyway.”
