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<\/a>Must see coming of age, family relationships and sexual awakening film seen at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA.\u00a0 This AFI Fest 2019 entry was my first of the festival experience and Family Members (Los Miembros Dr La Familia) didn’t disappoint.\u00a0 Director, Mateo Bendesky was there to introduce the audience to his self-titled style called “Magical Realistic Approach” to film making.\u00a0 For Bendesky’s part, this is third in a “unofficial” trilogy were he has explored family relationships.\u00a0 The first two films were “shorts” also on the subject of dual siblings of similar and different generations.\u00a0 However, this full feature film follows Lucas and Gilda, a brother and sister pair who must travel back to the coastal town and the sealed house of their deceased mother.<\/p>\nThe town holds secrets and\u00a0Bendesky gives the audience the liberty to complete part of the story in our own heads.\u00a0 The nearby Ocean and one of the downward descending\u00a0boulevards become a character actor for the films portrait of a sleepy, desolate beach side town.\u00a0 The adolescent\u00a0teens turned adults have absolutely been baptized by events that turn on the “Coming of Age” moment.\u00a0 Alone but together each sibling confronts each others relationship to one another and what comes next.\u00a0 Therefore, facing the world alone but struggling to deal with the stages of grief in a non-goal oriented way of youth.<\/p>\n
Lu, as Gilda calls him, has several dreams, each Bluish hued dream captured by the camera and revealed to the viewer as Lucas awakes each morning.\u00a0 The choreography and cinematography absolutely create a intimate bond with all characters by using extreme “close up” style camera shots throughout the entire film.\u00a0 The Ocean plays a huge backdrop in portraying life, death and eventual renewal.\u00a0 Of course, not before always drawing the characters back again into old routines.\u00a0 Through dreams, Lucas must confront his sexuality and the gay attraction to a his fitness guru friend Guido.\u00a0 The typically stoic while awake Lucas, must also deal with grief along with Gilda.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On display throughout the movie, both siblings struggle to mend and maintain their biological and familial connection to each other.\u00a0 This tenderhearted movie is a must see if you feel like you are not connecting with a new reality and\/or you struggle to stay close to siblings, \u00a0for what ever reason that might be.<\/p>\n
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Reviewed by: Gordon Gerbitz.\u00a0 Viewed at AFI Fest 2019 Must see coming of age, family relationships and sexual awakening film seen at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA.\u00a0 This AFI Fest 2019 entry was my first of the festival experience and Family Members (Los Miembros Dr La Familia) didn’t disappoint.\u00a0 Director, Mateo Bendesky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2019","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45014","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\/247813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45014"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45252,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45014\/revisions\/45252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}