"We want to go Disney. One ticket please."
- a review of Los Lobos
It is the hope that drives the family to the USA. The hope for a better life, less violence, away from the father. A mother with her two sons, who from now on have to spend their time alone in a run-down room.
Samuel Kishi Leopo tells the story of his own childhood in Los Lobos, backed up by his brother's music. The brothers Maximiliano and Leonardo Nájar Márquez give an incredible performance. Due to the warm atmosphere on set and the improvisation of Martha Reyes Arias, who plays the mother, it is not difficult for the two to act completely natural. There was a script, but it served more to define the plot than for the dialogues, because Martha gave the two boys all the freedom during the shooting and adapted to it and not only implemented Samuel's instructions herself, but also transferred them to the two boys.
The enthusiasm of the audience can be felt from the very first second. The Urania is full of school classes, which the film team already welcomes with thunderous applause and screaming. During the film, they root for the two boys in every scene. "Don't go out!", "Don't do that!", "Oh no!", is being called through the room. Tensely breathing in together, or breathing out relieved. The audience reacts as one, it's as if we are all squeezed into the one-room apartment and are right there with them.
A difficult and complex topic is dealt with appropriately for the age group and communicated in an enchanting way. The applause at the end of the film even trumps the one at the beginning.
Reading the film description for the first time, I prepared myself for depressing scenes, for an uneasy feeling, like Yalda for example, triggered in me. But Los Lobos has a lightness that I didn't expect. A difficult life situation is captured from the eyes of two children who are not so different from children in any other part of the world. They play, fight, don't want to follow the rules. Disneyland is the big dream. Although Generation only shows films with children as the main characters, it is regularly the case that the target group is not really children. In this regard, Samuel Kishi has wonderfully mastered the tightrope walk between entertainment and education. The privileged children who take an excursion during a school day to go to the Berlinale immediately feel connected to the two brothers. Of course I cannot know how much reflection will take place afterwards. But it's a comforting feeling to know that about 800 children have looked beyond their own horizons and may now pay attention when they hear about the Detention Camps in the USA, where children like Leo and Max are separated from their parents and held captive. Children who only differ from them in that they were born somewhere else.
Los Lobos is suitable for young and old. For anyone and everyone who wants to put themselves in the shoes of a family that loves each other as much as families here, that sticks together and never gives up hope for a better life and yet has it so much harder.
- a review of Los Lobos
It is the hope that drives the family to the USA. The hope for a better life, less violence, away from the father. A mother with her two sons, who from now on have to spend their time alone in a run-down room.
Samuel Kishi Leopo tells the story of his own childhood in Los Lobos, backed up by his brother's music. The brothers Maximiliano and Leonardo Nájar Márquez give an incredible performance. Due to the warm atmosphere on set and the improvisation of Martha Reyes Arias, who plays the mother, it is not difficult for the two to act completely natural. There was a script, but it served more to define the plot than for the dialogues, because Martha gave the two boys all the freedom during the shooting and adapted to it and not only implemented Samuel's instructions herself, but also transferred them to the two boys.
The enthusiasm of the audience can be felt from the very first second. The Urania is full of school classes, which the film team already welcomes with thunderous applause and screaming. During the film, they root for the two boys in every scene. "Don't go out!", "Don't do that!", "Oh no!", is being called through the room. Tensely breathing in together, or breathing out relieved. The audience reacts as one, it's as if we are all squeezed into the one-room apartment and are right there with them.
A difficult and complex topic is dealt with appropriately for the age group and communicated in an enchanting way. The applause at the end of the film even trumps the one at the beginning.
Reading the film description for the first time, I prepared myself for depressing scenes, for an uneasy feeling, like Yalda for example, triggered in me. But Los Lobos has a lightness that I didn't expect. A difficult life situation is captured from the eyes of two children who are not so different from children in any other part of the world. They play, fight, don't want to follow the rules. Disneyland is the big dream. Although Generation only shows films with children as the main characters, it is regularly the case that the target group is not really children. In this regard, Samuel Kishi has wonderfully mastered the tightrope walk between entertainment and education. The privileged children who take an excursion during a school day to go to the Berlinale immediately feel connected to the two brothers. Of course I cannot know how much reflection will take place afterwards. But it's a comforting feeling to know that about 800 children have looked beyond their own horizons and may now pay attention when they hear about the Detention Camps in the USA, where children like Leo and Max are separated from their parents and held captive. Children who only differ from them in that they were born somewhere else. Los Lobos is suitable for young and old. For anyone and everyone who wants to put themselves in the shoes of a family that loves each other as much as families here, that sticks together and never gives up hope for a better life and yet has it so much harder.
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