Friday, July 8 - July 30
SUMMER OF GOLIATH
124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA
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SUMMER OF GOLIATH
(VERANO DE GOLIAT)
dir. Nicolás Pereda, 2010
75 mins. Mexico.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
FRIDAY, JULY 8 - 10 PM
THURSDAY, JULY 14 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JULY 24 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JULY 30 - 10 PM
His real name is Oscar, but his friends call him Goliath because he is alleged to have killed his girlfriend. That is what Oscar and his little brother Nico tell an interviewer offscreen at the start of SUMMER OF GOLIATH. This fifth film by Nicolás Pereda starts as a documentary, only later to change into a feature film when we see the housewife Teresa trudge across a field with a heavy suitcase. She has just been deserted by her husband, Eduardo. With an intriguing mixture of fiction and documentary, Pereda sketches a picture of a small rural town where it seems fairly common for husbands to desert their families (often to go and work in the United States), where there is little work and where soldiers stroll around and combat boredom by intimidating people. It’s a community where the outcast Oscar and a lonely Teresa have difficulty keeping their heads above water.
“Pereda’s ambitious but willfully puzzling SUMMER OF GOLIATH (2010) tells a number of stories, none of them fully developed. Set in a rural environment, in which woods, fields, and rivers bear oppressively on the action, the film consists of stories that are juxtaposed with each other, scene by scene, in the fashion of a patchwork quilt. Once again, Teresa Sánchez and [Lázaro] Gabino Rodríguez are mother and son, their problems compounded by the husband-father’s abandonment; once again, [Lázaro] lacks a proper job, this time as he plays soldier with a pal. Pereda’s inclusion of interviews with minor characters whose situations are unconnected to the main one lends a documentary air to the entire work, blurring the line between fabrication and what seem to be actual events. The film’s title refers to a young man accused of killing his girlfriend. Though we hear no more about this after the interview that begins the film, it hangs over the movie as a specter of hopelessness and irresolution.” - Tony Pipolo, Artforum
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(VERANO DE GOLIAT)
dir. Nicolás Pereda, 2010
75 mins. Mexico.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
FRIDAY, JULY 8 - 10 PM
THURSDAY, JULY 14 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JULY 24 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JULY 30 - 10 PM
His real name is Oscar, but his friends call him Goliath because he is alleged to have killed his girlfriend. That is what Oscar and his little brother Nico tell an interviewer offscreen at the start of SUMMER OF GOLIATH. This fifth film by Nicolás Pereda starts as a documentary, only later to change into a feature film when we see the housewife Teresa trudge across a field with a heavy suitcase. She has just been deserted by her husband, Eduardo. With an intriguing mixture of fiction and documentary, Pereda sketches a picture of a small rural town where it seems fairly common for husbands to desert their families (often to go and work in the United States), where there is little work and where soldiers stroll around and combat boredom by intimidating people. It’s a community where the outcast Oscar and a lonely Teresa have difficulty keeping their heads above water.
“Pereda’s ambitious but willfully puzzling SUMMER OF GOLIATH (2010) tells a number of stories, none of them fully developed. Set in a rural environment, in which woods, fields, and rivers bear oppressively on the action, the film consists of stories that are juxtaposed with each other, scene by scene, in the fashion of a patchwork quilt. Once again, Teresa Sánchez and [Lázaro] Gabino Rodríguez are mother and son, their problems compounded by the husband-father’s abandonment; once again, [Lázaro] lacks a proper job, this time as he plays soldier with a pal. Pereda’s inclusion of interviews with minor characters whose situations are unconnected to the main one lends a documentary air to the entire work, blurring the line between fabrication and what seem to be actual events. The film’s title refers to a young man accused of killing his girlfriend. Though we hear no more about this after the interview that begins the film, it hangs over the movie as a specter of hopelessness and irresolution.” - Tony Pipolo, Artforum
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