@Toxinophile I admit that I did undersell those movies. But I'm a firm believer in the best comes when you don't expect anything. So I want to present the ghosts more properly.
El Apostol has the honour of being the first animated feature film ever. Or would have it if it weren't because it's lost. While I do owe the people in the Bad Empanada thread a proper intro to Argentinian history, the context here is that Hipolito Yrigoyen (the protagonist of this flick) was the first Argentinian president to be elected through universal vote. Before him the country was ruled by oligarchs, with him and his party Argentina limped through great depression and he was ousted by literal fascists. Good times.
Las Leyendas is an entire franchise but I picked the poster for one of the older movies so you can appreciate how influential it was. Its style echoes in stuff made this decade and is a damn shame that something that at least tried to be dark for children's sake kept getting neutered for mass appeal.
Selkirk, El Verdadero Robinson Crusoe isn't Aardman level but dare I say it was aged better than some of their works. I really dig the design and considering most animation made out of the States is made with purely edutainment purposes, this one is pretty good. It has a fictionalized Selkirk and a grounded Robinson Crusoe if you will. Another similarity it has with Pirates! is that the lady in the poster, Gertrudis/Pupi el Acido, crossdresses to go plundering.
Anina is Anina. Is very hard to talk about this one without spoiling it, but at its core is about not judging people and jumping to assumptions. Is very sweet, is very comfy and thankfully available.
Metegol has the 'managers are eternal' monologue that is absolute fucking cinema. A major meme in Spanish speaking circles. Is an interesting crossroads for the animation of both countries, as Spain has become a respectable player in the animation scene while Argentina doesn't make things often but when they do they deliver kino.
I could have picked the new poster where everyone smiles but this one is how I met
Ana y Bruno, so it stays. My only regret is not telling Carlos Carrera how great he was when I had him in front of me. My personal highlight that day is that the imaginary friends here represent pathologies and one of the few children in attendance asked why there was a hairy hand. He also directed
El Crimen del Padre Amaro, a must-watch of Mexican cinema.
This is the poster they officially picked for
Soy Frankelda. Is too extra but once the dust has settled it made me realize why the entire movie is the way it is: this likely was the last time Cinema Fantasma may be able to use the IP, regardless of if WB gets bought by Netflix. The best option was a Season 0 and a Season 2 instead of forcing it to be a movie, but it was the only way to finish it. This is a love letter to a book that is already finished and may it rest in peace. The Ambriz bros actually called the movie a love letter to storytelling and that is the best way to engage it. I've met people that didn't like it calling it 'horror for kids' but in truth this is a supernatural romance (in the literary sense). Engage it thusly and you may be changed. It was an honour to see it, to live it even with all the pain. 827K total butts in seats for a grand total of 50.3 Frankeldion pesos (roughly 2.79M freedom dollars). Small victories amigo, small victories. Fucking mogged that piece of shit Aztec Batman.
This post is already too long but I hope to return sooner to introduce youse to different ghosts for if we are cursed to do everything we have done and will do again and again, I take it with gusto for I will love like the first time. If everything ends, I'll love knowing it might be my last.
