Los sonámbulos

When you sit through to the end of a movie out of moral duty you know there's something afoot. Despite the pretty good performances the thematic focus is totally pedestrian and predictable. Ergo, uninspiring.

I'm a woman and not against feminism in art properly done.

But this film just plods along never really rising to any heights that might grab the viewer emotionally or intellectually.

The annual family get together as a trope to explore responsibility, sexism and repression within the extended family has been done to death, most inspirationally by various Scandinavian auteurs. This one just misses the mark in its ordinariness, cinematically speaking.

Three stars for the gorgeous cinematography and general camera work.