Among the seven films (six debuts) we find in this year’s Critics’ Week competition line-up we find Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building by filmmaker Bruno Santamaría Razo. The Mexico City born director, writer and cinematographer often blends intimate realism with explorations of gender identity, childhood, memory and marginalized communities. His debut came with docus Margarita (2016) and Things We Dare Not Do (2020) — a coming-of-age documentary that focuses on queer identity in a remote coastal village. His fiction debut is semi-autobiographical works with themes of memory and childhood revisited. Produced by Ojo de Vaca Productora’s Bruna Haddad and Carlos Quiñónez (along with Razo), this was co-produced by Desvia Films’ Rachel Daisy Ellis, Camille Reis, Snowglobe’s Giulia Triolo and Katrin Pors), Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul world premieres next Tuesday on May 19th — Luxbox are handling sales.… Read the rest
The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as, with humble simplicity, they profess to be enamored with the central figure of a tree. Returning to the more meditative realm which defined her 2017 Golden Bear winner On Body and Soul (Enyedi’s first feature after a near twenty-year absence), her latest holds a steady, tranquil gaze across three distinct periods (1908, 1972, 2020) spanning a century, its characters connected by their proximity to a sturdy gingko tree in a German botanical garden. In essence, it’s a film which examines progress through our ability to communicate not only with each other but the environment around us, suggesting self-actualization is achieved through our sometimes brief moments whereby harmony is reached by mutual grasping of our interconnectedness.… 
3 Women – Robert Altman (1977)
