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Papa ou maman (2015)
A divorcing parents desperate fight to NOT get the custody.
A perfect couple of perfect successful professionals consider themselves "modern enough" to agree a friendly divorce because, in their own words, their passion has became a good friendship. They have it all perfectly planned: dad, a doctor, will fulfill his dream of spending half a year in Haiti as volunteer. They would get apartments not far from each other so their children (a six years old boy and two teenagers, boy and girl) are never far from both of them. The only thing to do is they have not the guts to tell the children about their divorce.
But of course, things are not going to be as easy as ghat. Mom, construction manager, is offered a dream project abroad. In a forts moment, she is willing to reject it and stick to the plan. Until her husband starts a relationship with a young nurse and she finds out.
From that point, a war starts between them to NOT get the custody of their kids, so they can pursue their career wishes.
They will do anything to make the kids to choose to live with the other, or a judge to decide so, from mom sneaking in her teenage daughter friends party to drink, smoke weed and dance sexy for the girl's absolute shame, dad explaining their six years old "you know... when somebody separate female wolves from their cubs they kill themselves. You don't want mommy to suicide don't you". Those being just two of the less politically incorrect methods used.
Each one's friend's advises to help them to get the custody are not in vain: they immediately do the opposite.
This movie, because of its budget and facture, parted with kind of low expectations on my part, but it was entertaining, and I laughed. I think precisely because it is so non-PC.
Entrelobos (2010)
The real story of a feral kid in Europe during the 50's
To start the review of this movie, one has to stress that it is based on a real story, a story so extraordinary that fits the "Truth is stranger than fiction" quote. In the dark years of Spain's post Civil War, in a poor and forgotten rural area, a small kid called Marcos was sold by his father to a shepherd, who taught him the basics of survival in nature, dying shortly later. Marcos became then a feral kid, establishing links with animals that still leave zoologists in astonishment.
A pack of wolves became his family. A snake he raised saved his life. And no: it is not a Pixar movie with cute "humanized" animals that speak and dance, they are real experiences.
Marcos remembers his childhood in the wild as the happiest period in his life, and his "rescue" by human society as confuse as humiliating.
Thankfuly, someone finally thought such a story deserved to be told as a movie. And unluckily, I wish it had been Spielberg who had done it, because despite of having the best of scripts already written by reality, it is only highly advised for people who love zoology and is interested in nature, as the situations in the movie are 100% real (furthermore: the director and scriptwriters found impossible to include the complete relationship of Marcos with the whole pack, his personal story with each one of the wolves, reducing it to his link with one wolf).
I am happy that the director has not fallen in easy Disney-like sentimentalism when picturing the life of Marcos in the wild. But in my opinion, considering the story, this movie could have been much better, it could have been breath-taking.