‘Hamburg’: Tragic and uncooked imaginative and prescient of the Spanish freeway brothels | Cinema: premieres and criticism | EUROtoday

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There are usually not a number of potential movies on the banks of the Spanish highways, from Malaga to the Junquera passing by Navas del Rey and, after all, by the N-301 because it passes by the province of Cuenca, with a brothel each kilometer. Not a number of movies with a whiskey scent, lysergic acceleration, potride breath of rancid male and desolation of a slave lady. Among the neon lights, the same old tuitions of automobiles and vehicles and the decision of the fee intercourse.

But, subsequent to potential movies, there are additionally actual lives. Almost all of them, damaged or decomposing. And Lino Escalera has chosen to painting them one of many riskiest variants. Not the obvious: that of gender cinema in purity, that of the felony. Nor probably the most activist: that of the express social grievance of the sermon to persuade the satisfied. But an intermediate between the 2, far more dry, tough and soiled. In Hamburg, Their second function movie is rarely eroticized or sexualized by our bodies and conditions. This isn’t a sequence of Netflix with women of superb our bodies dancing round a vertical bar, though, paradoxically, the platform is a part of its manufacturing helps.

Staircase, which debuted in 2017 with the exceptional I do not know easy methods to say goodbye, exhibits a single mud; within the first minute of footage, and is disagreeable, nearly disgusting; fleeting, clumsy, and portrayed in a intentionally ugly framing behind a wall, which appears like voyeurism Sick wherein my libers are nothing greater than us. Nor are there bare (simply two, by no means voluptuous). And sure impolite, violent and humiliating conversations after the day of “work”, with overshadowed girls with out heels and flip flops, compelled to account for his or her degree of night time manufacturing.

Jaime Lorente and Roger Casamajor, in 'Hamburg'.

Three are the primary protagonists of Hamburg, Set in a horrendous model of the Costa del Sol, between El Palo and Marbella. The Chicas Chopher, in command of transfers; a thirty -year -old with a previous of drug dependancy and alcohol, maltrecha, notorious previous and black destiny, which Jaime Lorente interprets with tragic vulnerability; The administrator of a number of premises, on the service of the native mafia, former good friend of the motive force, in a suicide and sumptuous composition document of Roger Casamajor, imposing a pointy waterfall voice that causes dread; And a kind of captive girls, a Romanian who provides life with a shady gesture Ion Bugarin.

There are in Hamburg components of thriller, But it by no means has simply been: two sequences with photographs, and each are settled within the off area, with the digicam planted on Lorente’s terrified face. Also of social cinema, though it isn’t in purity both. And sure poetic nuances in some texts – the Hamburg sweatshirt of the title, that metropolis wherein it has not been -, wherein the staircase itself and its coguices – daniel remón, which replaces its brother Pablo in the help of the director, after co -writing this I do not know easy methods to say goodbye And the good brief Australia; and Roberto Martín Maiztegui, from the good sequence See you in one other life— They flip a tone that generally comes out of on a regular basis life.

The movie doesn’t invent something artistically, however its imaginative and prescient of the margins of our roads, of these sadly baptized locations because the routes of enjoyment, is as bitter socially as stimulating within the cinematographic. And to this one other formal resolution contributes: to dispense with these elementary digital pictures with out depth of area, and have shot in tremendous 16 mm, which provides the picture of Juana Jiménez a tough texture, and the identical rudeness because the lives it portrays.

Hamburg

Address: Lino staircase.

Interpreters: Jaime Lorente, Roger Casamajor, Iona Bugarin, Mona Martínez.

Gender: thriller. España, 2025.

Duración: 113 minutes.

Premiere: May 30.

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