This week’s movie review: The Fabelmans, Pure Gold, The Communion Girl, and Joyland

More than one movie about Steven Spielberg’s training in cinema at a very young age, Fablemans It is an evocation of the director’s childhood and adolescence and, above all, the relationships between his parents and the influence his mother had on him. Portrayed by Michelle Williams and Paul Dano, the parents of a director Sharks They are the focus of the story. They are dealt with, despite their disagreements, disagreements, and drama, in a very endearing mannerHow could it be otherwise in the case of Spielberg.

The magic that cinema too early on the young protagonist exerted – the film begins with the premiere of the film The greatest show in the worlda lavish film directed by Cecil BD Mill About the circus world that the child contemplates in amazement – as well as his first home shooting, war and Western films in Super 8 and 16 mm that he made in his youth, is something like a central story decoration.

The characters are real, but Spielberg takes license. It’s still a fictional story” based on true events.” Spielberg recalls, conjures, models, invents, forgets, builds and destroys. We’ll never know if that’s true about his interview with John Ford — played by none other than David Lynch — or what Whether the anti-Semitism he suffered at Calif. was so strong, or whether he had an affair with a very religious young woman. It details and glimpses of an existence not quite eden—his parents divorced—but not bitter either, recreated with a certain tenderness when someone arrives— Spielberg is 76 years old – to the autumn of his life. Kim Casas

It’s hard to tell how much truth is in Biographical book published by German rapper Xatar in 2015 But if anything, this biopic based on it works more like a choreographed hip-hop opera less concerned with fact than legend. Director Fatih Akin traces the life of a musician from his birth in a bat-infested cave in an Iranian village to his triumph in the recording industry, while recreating his father’s abandonment, street dealings, violence, contacts with the Kurdish mafia in the Netherlands, and his life. His bizarre heist of kilos of dental gold, his months spent being tortured in a Syrian prison and his unlikely recording of an album from a cell under cover.

In the process, while combining the ingredients of heist movies, drama series, and redemption stories—and giving the whole thing touches of comedy—, pure gold Its dramatic effectiveness is determined by the amazing ability of plot twists. Akin, for his part, only so competently tells Xatar’s story; here, His work shows a distinct lack of creativity And the lack of interest in keeping dialogues and positions away from clichés. Given the poor reception it suffered, it is undoubtedly his most dangerous film. St. Pauli monster (2019), it stands to reason that he has now sought to rehabilitate himself with a work that is undoubtedly as entertaining as it is conventional. – Nando’s advance