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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Martin
EAN: 0712267100125
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Strand Releasing
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 134 minutes
Sales Rank: 44835
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
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Description:
The story of a father and a son. Martin the father is a film director who lives in Madrid and cannot reconnect with his past and Martin (Hache), his son, named for his distant father. They meet again after five years when an accident lands Hache at death's door.
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Rating:  - Great Movie. Amazing Dialogues. Unforgetable.
As the previous reviews have stated, the movie is mainly about the relationship between a father and a son, but what will really blow you away is the dialogue, carried mostly by the Dante (Eusebio Poncella) character, it might be shocking that the sane person in this movie is the gay "libertine" drug user, but that's part of the (hidden?) charm and message Aristarain tries to transmit.
Unfortunately though, non-spanish speaking viewers will have to cope with the usual translation problems that unfortunately take away at least 1/3 of the dialogue and half of the richness of the movie in part due to the fast pace the interactions have which I guess made them cut a lot of dialogue and resume some. But all in all, this is a great movie that you should not miss, performances are brilliant, specially Eusebio Poncella as Dante and Cecilia Roth as Alicia.
Rating: - Ensemble Filmmaking at its Finest
Adolfo Aristarain is one of those rare filmmakers who defines his own world in cinema by writing and directing terrific stories with brilliant dialogue and using a familiar cadre of actors who give the finished product an ensemble effort. He is one of Argentina's finest artists and couples frequently with writer Kathy Saavedra (Roma, Un lugar en el mundo, Lugares communes, Martín (Hache), etc) and elects to use the extraordinary actors from Argentina such as Federico Luppi. Cecilia Roth, Juan Diego Botta and Eusebio Poncela. The results are stunning motion pictures that while addressing the intellect of the audience never fail to entertain as well.
'Martín (Hache)' is just such a film. With a challenging and wise script and a cadre of fine actors in every role Aristarain has created a poignant, philosophical and superlative character study about people and their need for relating in the world as we have altered it today. Martín (the brilliant Federico Luppi) is a wealthy writer who left his family in Buenos Aires five years ago to live and work in Madrid. He has a nineteen year old son Hache (Juan Diego Botta) - Hache is the Spanish pronunciation for the alphabet letter 'J' and since the son's name is Martin J. he elects to be called J or Hache - who is a restless, foundationless teenager who refuses to go to school preferring to simply play his electric guitar and run with the drug crowd. His mother has remarried and has a new baby and Hache is feeling like a third wheel. He ... Read More
Rating:  - Relationships are complex.
This was the forst non-comercial movie I ever saw, a Spain/Argentina co-production directed by Adolfo Aristarain (Un lugar en el mundo, Roma). Martin (Juan Diego Botto), a confused young guy, flies to Spanish to stay with his father (Federico Luppi) after he tries to commit suicide. In Madrid he will find him, Dante (Eusebio Poncela) and Alicia (Cecilia Roth), her father lover. The story is about the complex relationships between father and son, friends, lovers: the passion, the future, the arts, the life itself. Interesting dialogues and powerful acting, specially from Cecilia Roth.
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