Since it is Friday night and there is nothing better than relaxing at home after a long week of work, what better way to relax than watching movies and listening to good music that reaches your soul, that is why I leave you these recommendations to enjoy your night.
FILMS:
1. Super Dark Times (2017, dir Kevin Phillips, United States)
Of those girls movies that you start to see blindly and suddenly they surprise you. Super Dark Times is about two best friends who begin to separate after a tragic incident that marks their lives forever. From there, everything will be an ascending spiral of paranoia and violence because one of them begins to lose it. It is true that the script is not very strong, but takes well justified risks of the plot and leaves a series of sordid moments that, moreover, are incredibly musical. The photography is great, so remember me when you see the plane against the light on the silver lake.
Here is the trailer to the movie.
2. Holy Motors (2012, Léos Carax, France)
There are movies that everyone talks about, for better or for worse, but for some reason you enter them late. That happened to me with Holy Motors by Léos Carax, a film that, honestly and without saying it lightly, blew my mind. In this metaphor about the life of the actor, an enigmatic man, played by the great Denis Lavant, enters a limousine and begins his tour of the city of Paris, where he must attend nine dates in which he must put himself in the shoes of characters different and be part of different stories. In this way, we see him as a woman, as a man, as an old man and as a young man, showing us how an actor must mimic himself for each role, and in the end he ends up losing his own identity. A strange film, surreal, open to multiple readings, but above all, amazing.
Here is the link to the trailer.
3. Ingrid Goes West (2017, directed by Matt Spicer, United States)
This movie started as a hyperbolization about the cult of Instagram personalities until it was very similar to things I've seen in real life. Aubrey Plaza plays Ingrid, a girl obsessed with a woman named Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) who apparently has a perfect life, and her biggest wish in life is to have many followers on Instagram. After collecting an inheritance, she decides to travel to Los Angeles to follow Taylor's steps more closely and begins to spend all her money doing exactly what she does, until she knows her and begins to discover who she really is, while at the same time he tries to cover up his obsession with her. Genuinely funny and creepy in equal parts.
Here is the link to the trailer.
DISCS:
1. Björk - Utopia (2017, Iceland)
I love this new look that has taken Björk's music. While Vulnicura (2015) is an album that distills the sadness that was in his life at that time, Utopia is a much more optimistic album with respect to all the shit that life throws on your plate. The production of the Venezuelan Arca makes clear what the hype is with this guy and why everyone wants to work with him: Arca manages to translate into music the feeling Björk wants to convey with his music and his way of singing. This album is disguised as a fairy tale, where we see how Björk resumes his life, goes out with new people and, knowing that he can not save himself from the memory of his old love, manages to fall in love with other people through songs.
Here is the link to one of the songs on the album.
2. King Krule - The OOZ (2017, England)
The music of Archy Marshall is made to skip any gender gap, considering that we have heard him mixing Punk, Jazz and R & B with great aplomb. The OOZ, his best album to date, is a collection of songs that feed this characteristic of his music of not being tied to any musical genre, and puts us in a dense world of juxtaposed sound layers to achieve darkness, managing to unite other musical styles like the Ska, the Post-Punk and the Trip Hop in a single sound amalgam that sounds like their inner world. It is disturbing, mature and very different from anything you have heard.
Here is the link to some songs from the album.
3. METZ - Strange Peace (2017, Canada)
The Canadian band METZ continues in its particular crusade to give a soundtrack to chaos, something that contrasts with the name of his third album, an album that generates anything but peace. Noise rock guitar player executed with power, reminiscent of the heavier themes of Sonic Youth, together with a garage and punk attitude very brittish. Despite not showing a face too different to their other albums, METZ remains faithful to its aggressive sound and its DIY philosophy and warns that in the future they can do something different, because in Strange Peace there is room for new ideas, where debauchery It seems to be more planned than ever.
Here is the link to the album.
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