{"id":19046,"date":"2012-02-04T22:55:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19046"},"modified":"2012-02-09T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T07:34:34","slug":"another-silence-santiago-amigorena-2011-franceargentinacanadabrazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19046","title":{"rendered":"Another Silence (Santiago Amigorena, 2011): France\/Argentina\/Canada\/Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Lopez<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at SBIFF Metro 4.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnother Silence\u201d is about revenge and forgiveness.\u00a0 It was directed by Santiago Amigorena, an Argentine who lives in France.\u00a0 This is Amigorena’s first film although he has been involved in writing screenplays.\u00a0 He should pursue making more films because his talents are apparent in this riveting movie.<\/p>\n

The heroine Marie\u00a0(portrayed by Marie-Josee Croze) is a woman police officer who is driven to track down an assassin who killed her husband and young son in cold-blooded murder.\u00a0 The story begins in Canada and ends in Argentina.<\/p>\n

The opening scene of the film depicts the heroine\u2019s son coming out of grade school and talking to his classmates.\u00a0 It has recently snowed and everyone is appropriately wearing their warm apparel which provides the environmental ambience of Toronto in the winter.<\/p>\n

Second scene.\u00a0 We meet\u00a0Marie, the heroine of the story\u00a0ending her shift\u00a0at the police station.\u00a0\u00a0When one of her\u00a0police colleagues asks her to\u00a0go out after work, Marie declines saying she has grocery shopping to do.<\/p>\n

When Marie returns home after a long day at the police station, and grocery shopping afterwards, she heads straight to the kitchen to prepare dinner.\u00a0 While dinner is brewing on the stove, Marie drops by her son\u2019s bedroom to see how he is doing\u2014for the sake of moving the plot along, he is doing his homework with due diligence with a smile to boot.<\/p>\n

When Marie walks into her master bedroom, her husband greets her saying that he\u2019s finally fixed the squeaks in the bed springs.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Does fixing the squeaky sounds of bed springs open the doors to out-loud sex?\u00a0 Well, Marie thinks so and climbs on top\u00a0her husband (meanwhile, dinner is still brewing on the stove and their son is studying within ear-shot distant in the next room).\u00a0 But alas, the bed begins to creak again, so any amorous intentions are watered down.<\/p>\n

From this point on, the audience is aware that Marie is a \u201ccop\u201d and we know that she has a loving family, and that they will soon eat for dinner.\u00a0 However, her husband Joshua suddenly remembers that he has a basketball game to go to with his son\u2014dinner is a \u201cno go.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Joshua and son\u00a0hurriedly leave home because they are already behind schedule to get to the game.<\/p>\n

When Joshua and the son drive away from home in their white sedan, he doesn\u2019t notice that he is being followed by a black SUV.\u00a0 At an isolated intersection, the black SUV pulls up to the white sedan, and Joshua and his son are killed by a rapid firing of bullets from the SUV.\u00a0 Missing pieces to the plot, but builds up later as the plot unfolds, but at least the audience knows that the black SUV is full of bad guys.<\/p>\n

This is a story about revenge and forgiveness.\u00a0 The plot is complicated from ground zero.\u00a0 It\u2019s not only that the cop is going after the assassin of her family, it is about the assassin going after the cop who incarcerated his uncle.<\/p>\n

The director uses contrasts during the course of the film, from white to black, from Toronto to Argentina, from winter to summer, and from snow to the desert.\u00a0 Mirrors are used to contrast the reflections of the protagonist and antagonist.<\/p>\n

In the end, there is forgiveness vs. revenge in order to move on with life.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Linda Lopez.\u00a0 Viewed at SBIFF Metro 4. \u201cAnother Silence\u201d is about revenge and forgiveness.\u00a0 It was directed by Santiago Amigorena, an Argentine who lives in France.\u00a0 This is Amigorena’s first film although he has been involved in writing screenplays.\u00a0 He should pursue making more films because his talents are apparent in this riveting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}