From time to time, filmmakers have created numerous tributes to the medium. This documentary ranks among the best ode to cinema and it will feel the same for the couch viewer, average one or serious film buff. But I can't categorise it as a family time cinema, it is far from a children's film.
This could've been a much crueller film aimed to be a tearjerker to poach awards and critical acclaim. The deep issues, political tension significantly perceptible to audience of Ignacio Aguero films. He touches upon various themes with realism and nostalgia with cinema and childhood as the backstory. I'm really glad he hasn't stopped and still continues his love for the medium till this day.
In this documentary, Aguero covers the film workshops conducted by Professor Alicia Vega for underprivileged children in a chapel on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile. She takes the children on journey who learn about cinema amid the repression of the dictatorship.
The emotion is captured so beautifully as they remain largely puzzled with the screen. It is also jam-packed with overwhelming nostalgia & references to films, which is awe-inspiring ode to cinema itself that also succeeds as one pure escapist bliss for everyone who adores the medium. The love that is born between cinema and the kids in the workshop. I bet once boarded this train will take you on a nostalgic ride to give a hug to the magic called Cinema. This will appeal to all cinephiles and i would also recommend Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), Viviana García-Besné's Perdida (2009), Bertrand Tavernier's Journey Through French Cinema (2016), Stephen Kijak's Cinemania (2002), Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Hello Cinema (1995), Sandhya Suri's Around India with a Movie Camera (2018), Lumière! The Adventure of Cinema Begins (2016) and the Cinema Travellers (2016) worth checking out in that regards.
