“Petrov Fever”

Imagine the cinematic fusion of a Tardi comic strip and a science fiction book by the Strugatsky brothers, with a background of existential desolation and an extreme winter atmosphere, and you will have a rough description of Petrov feverby Kirill Serebrennikov (Summer), in which the Petrov of the title, a poor devil comic book author, divorced, father of a small son and sick with the flu, travels through the city of Yakaterinburg in the middle of winter, between reality and fantasy, to the point in which he and the viewer cannot separate them. Absurd phantasmagoria, fever dreams, ugly and gloomy realism and disconcerting hallucinations mix in this black and satirical comedy about modern-day Russia, at times with a narrative so saturated that it drifts towards chaos and opacity.

“The best of all worlds”

In Rita Nunes’ new film, set in 2027, Marta, a scientist, discovers that Lisbon could be about to be hit by an earthquake of the magnitude of the one in 1755, and she and the team she works with debate whether to warn to the authorities, or wait so as not to cause collective panic and run the risk that the catastrophe occurs and then it is too late. The best of the worlds It may be a metaphor for the times of general anxiety that we live in faced with the possibility of a nuclear war or natural catastrophes of abnormal proportions, but the film works reasonably if we take it literally, although it would ask for more resources, muscles and tension. dramatic, and longer. As it stands, it looks like a sketch from a Portuguese disaster movie.

“Wild Robot”

Directed by Chris Sanders (the author of lilo and stitch either How to train your dragon) for DreamWorks, this animated feature film, based on the book of the same name by Peter Brown, has as its protagonist an intelligent robot, unit ROZZUM 7134, short for “Rozz”, who ends up on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck. . With no humans in sight, and surrounded only by animal life, Roz will have to get used to the adverse environment in which he was thrown, gradually establishing, and after going through some dangerous situations, relationships of understanding with the different animals that surround him. exist there and end up becoming the “mother” of an orphaned goose.

“Reagan”

Dennis Quaid stars as President Ronald Reagan in this Sean McNamara biopic, which is a clear, clear and humorous celebration of the life and political career of Ronald Reagan, based on the book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communismby Paul Kengor. The film, which begins with the attack on Reagan on March 30, 1981 in Washington, is narrated in flashback by a retired KGB analyst, Viktor Petrovich (Jon Voight), who studied the life of Ronald Reagan and followed and scrutinized his entire political career. the “Crusade”, a code name given to it by the Russians. reagan It was chosen movie of the week by Observador and you can find the review here.