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“Valentin” is director Alejandro Agresti’s semi-autobiographical tribute to the emotional strength of children. Valentin (Rodrigo Noya) is a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother (Carmen Maura) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969. His grandmother loves him, but misses her recently deceased husband desperately and complains constantly of her remaining family. Valentin dreams of being an astronaut and longs for his mother, whom he has not been allowed to leer since his parents’ divorce. When Valentin’s ill-tempered father (Alejandro Agresti) introduces his son to Leticia (Julieta Cardinali), the latest in a long string of girlfriends, Valentin takes to her immediately, and feels that his life is looking brighter.
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If “Valentin” were a diminutive older, this might be called a coming-of-age myth. Instead, it is a fable of this boy’s ability to adapt, to net hope in the events around him, and to approach his fill cause in his enjoy procedure. Valentin is an opinionated child, sometimes to the point of being bratty, but his forthrightness and sensitivity endear him to adults nonetheless. In his attempts to navigate his family residence, Valentin discovers that things are not as he idea they were. He doesn’t drop into self-pity, as adults are prone to. He accepts the world the plot he now sees it, changes his concept, and sets about adjusting his agenda. His strength is his ability to adapt.
“Valentin” is an evenly paced character drama, narrated by a frank, perceptive 9-year-old. Rodrigo Noya is perfection as Valentin. His thoughts and feelings are written across his face. It’s a completely fair performance. He is nuanced as well as sparkling and earnest. The cast deserves a lot of credit, because this is the sort of drama where, if any emotion is exaggerated, the record would become horribly sentimental. Carmen Maura and Julieta Cardinali hit honest the suitable trace, and writer/director Alejandro Agresti appears as Valentin’s father. Spanish with a choice of English subtitles or English captions for the hearing impaired.
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The DVD: There is a 12-minute interview, in English, with writer/director Alejandro Agresti in which he discusses the autobiographical nature of the film, its themes, and casting. The interview is lively, and I recommend it if you like the film. But the photography is cross. The color balance is so far off during the interview that the relate is practically orange. It wouldn’t have taken considerable worry to fix that. There is also a theatrical trailer.
I liked “Valentin.”
It walks through a few weeks of a boy’s life, Valentin, as he navigates his days living with a suspicious, protective grandmother. His dad is caught up in his beget life, his mother is apparently found some unnamed worry, and so Valentin is in the care of his father’s mother.
It has the sweetness and romance of “Cinema Paradiso,” the charm of “The Wonder Years,” the subtle dramatic humor of “Lost in Yonkers,” and the uncanny real-time wisdom of “Simon Birch.”
His father visits whenever he falls in like, and although Valentin loves his father, he knows the relationship is, at best, casual. The father is somewhat abusive, but the point made isn’t that, but how he simply is not around.
When the father meets Leticia, a young woman half his age, he introduces them. Valentin falls for her completely, while Leticia listens carefully. To him, she is mother potential. He trusts her, but she is the wiser of the two, and finds that though Valentin is an almost perfect child, his father is not.
The pianist across the street is something like Roger in “101 Dalmations,” only lonelier. Valentin connects with him, as they both meet emotional needs - the pianist needs a friend, and Valentin needs a father. Through piano lessons, they become friends.
Too often, the films in other languages that are delivered to the USA are replete with messages that either too complex or too adult and controversial for a younger audience. “Valentin,” from Argentina, gets it honest, with an all-ages appropriate film and a classic sense of purity, without the sugarcoated politically right Hollywood morality-wrapped-in-a-movie grotesqueness.
“Valentin” carries itself by the imagination of the viewer, who must, at times, suspend a few matters of reality. Staunch boys are not that wise or observant, not when they are eight. Valentin is never smarmy or has that youthful but bitter street-smart near. Rather, he is kind and naive, wanting his world to be better, and for those around him to be ecstatic.
I fully recommend “Valentin.”
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
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