Film: I'm No Longer Here
Starring: Juan Daniel García, Angelina Chen, Jonathan Espinoza, Coral Puente, Tania Alvarado, Fanny Tovar, Luis Leonardo Zapata, Yahir Alday, Leonardo Garza, Yocelin Coronado, Deyanira Coronado
Director: Fernando Frías de la Parra
Rating: ****
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - In I'm No Longer Here, the subsequent fiction movie by Fernando Frías, the filmmaker who keeps on dissecting social stuns when relocating to different nations. If his Rezeta from 2012 was about the life of an Albanian model in Mexico City, in his new film we meet Úlises, a youngster who attempts to adjust to the hard existence of New York in the wake of leaving Monterrey.
The film centers on Ulises Samperio, a 17-year-old young person who lives in the slopes of Monterrey and is a piece of Los Terkos, a gathering that consolidates Cholo culture with his affection for old Colombian music and his enthusiasm for music and dance. After the demise of his brother and amidst rough conflicts between gangs committed to drug dealing, he is compelled to escape critically and settle in the no less wanton territory of Jackson Heights, in New York's Queens.
While yearning for his property, his companions, his music and his move, our adored screw-up guy starts to impart gradually with Lin, a 16-year-old settler of Chinese beginning who is pulled in to Ulises' individual universe. The film decreases and forward between Ulises' kinships and status in Mexico — where he seems puffed up like a peacock, an impression upgraded by his birdlike quiff, and is regularly delineated in group shots — and the void and estrangement of his NY life. In spite of the fact that he is fairly powerfully taken under the wing of Asian-American teenager Lin (Angelina Chen), in America he's generally a peculiarity, existing on the peripheries, incapable to interface and convey.
There are a few points out that meet all through the film: personality, network, having a place, and social isolation. Every one of these inquiries are tended to top to bottom, bringing about an aware and fair picture of Latin American reality, in which there are numerous cases like the ones the film manages. With a solid content formed before shooting and altered during recording to all the more likely adjust to the expressions of Monterrey, the film keeps up a charming beat in its below two hours span. Likewise, cumbia assumes a main job in the life of Ulises, yet also in the quintessence of the film.
Then again, the understandings are also a point to feature. All the actors who are a part of the Terkos gang normally encapsulate their characters, however, this is comprehended when realizing that none of them were experts, and there is a ton of weight of their accounts in their jobs. Although everybody are excellent, and they put their bodies to the move minutes, who sticks out, and sparkles on screen is Juan Daniel Derek García Treviño in the shoes of Ulises.
Confronted with viciousness, drugs, and the modest neighborhood that occasionally appears to be an impasse, the Terkos — the posse to which Ulises and his companions have a place — react with cumbia as a component of association and opposition. It is a film that on occasion is awkward and dismal, yet this is on the grounds that we realize there is little fiction in this story. We can change the names, the nations, and the method of talking, yet this the truth is shared by the whole Latin American landmass.
Final Word - I'm No Longer Here may not be for everybody: it doesn't have many clear emotional connect or lead to an encouraging goals. Fernando Frías brings an unrefined story which doesn't walk apathetically nor romanticizes destitution, however, depicts it with heartbreaking genuineness.
