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Gael García Bernal Hits The Midwest In Cross-culture Comedy 'you're Killing Me Susana

... Discover. Share. Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Enter your email or sign up with a social account to get started. FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ YAHOO. Don't have an account yet. Sign Up ›. Gael García Bernal Hits the Midwest in Cross-Culture Comedy 'You're Killing Me Susana'. Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:30 a.m. Print Article. Roberto Sneider's You're Killing Me Susana (Me estás matando Susana) is a culture-clash comedy in which the clash happens both onscreen and off. Eligio (Gael García Bernal) is a self-absorbed telenovela character actor in Mexico City who thinks nothing of carousing and cheating on his novelist wife Susana (Verónica Echegui), and yet is surprised and angry ...

Love Story Of A Troubled Married Couple

... not leading man swagger. His work is very down to earth — and that is a lot more difficult to plan than moments of huge emotions. Echegui brings the same qualities, a necessity in a role that strips her character to her bare core. No matter how many times the characters do things that make them unlikable, they can win the audience back with only a few lines of dialogue. That's because the actors make it sound like there's a truth behind everything they say. Director Roberto Sneider saw this ability in his stars and capitalizes on it by not pushing scenes to be filled with action but allowing their lives to unfold with the kind of conversations normal people would have. Even the final scene doesn't bank on a massive display; instead reducing the entire film down to a deep and sensitive small moment. "You're Killing Me Susana" is one of the purest love stories to come along in ...

Celebs Unleashed On Hollywood's Big Night

... numbers of jokes, allusions, and sincere articulations inspired by a single person during an awards telecast, Hollywood’s most luminous tackled Trump and his policies during the the 89 th annual Academy Awards. From host Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue, to the acceptance speeches, to those blue ribbons on tuxedo lapels, there were direct and indirect references to the 45 th president throughout the ceremony. The Oscars got underway  with a joyous opening musical number by Justin Timberlake performing best original song nominee “Can’t Stop the Feeling” that brought the crowd to its feet. Then Kimmel took the stage and threw out a slew of POTUS jokes. “This is being watched live by millions of people in 225 countries that now hate us,” Kimmel told the Dolby Theater (full monologue video below). Kimmel also had this to say: “I want to say thank you to President ...

Jimmy Kimmel, Gael Garcia Bernal, Asghar Farhadi, Barry Jenkins Mark Their Protest Against Donald Trump

... The Academy Awards held its own when it came to protesting against US President Donald Trump's policies. While there were no full-length speeches against him, there were several jibes made by the host Jimmy Kimmel, award winners and even presenter, Gael Garcia Bernal. The Oscars was as political as it could get. Trump, Streep and Twitter. In his opening monologue Jimmy Kimmel talked about the Trump presidency and how the "country is divided right now" and people are telling him to say something that would unite everyone. "I can't do that," he said. "There's only one braveheart in the room (pointing to Mel Gibson) and he is not going to unite us either." He went on to state that if everyone just had a conversation with someone with an opposing viewpoint, it would be a better way to unite people. He later referenced Trump's comment in which he called Meryl Streep an ...

Trump's Muslim Ban Takes Hit

... like your Twitter or Facebook feed. Why should we ignore for three hours what we're talking about 24 hours a day?". It's not that politics at the Oscars is new (hello? Anybody remember the Vietnam War ?); it just seems this year has been especially poisonous. For Oscar, it's one controversy after another. The tone of this season was set at the Golden Globes in January, when Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. De Mille award to condemn Trump's "instinct to humiliate" the vulnerable and vowed to stand up for "Hollywood, foreigners and the press" against his threats. Never able to resist the siren call of his Twitter feed, Trump  responded  to Streep — a three-time Oscar winner with a history-making 20 nominations — in an early morning tweet calling her a "flunky" for Hillary Clinton and "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood." This risible claim only inspired a slew of follow-up stories spelling out how many  awards ...

A Messy Marriage In Gael Garcia Bernal's 'you're Killing Me Susana

... right on your device. "When she gets back, I’ll yell at her for being out,” he boasts to his pals. Obviously, Eligio isn’t any woman’s idea of the perfect husband. That's why it's a genius move having Gael Garcia Bernal play the role. Eligio is a cad, a Lothario, childish and overly macho. You need someone with Bernal's charms and charisma to make audiences believe that any woman would put up with him, much less consider returning to him. Eligio (Gael Garcia Bernal) isn't afraid to get physical in "You're Killing Me Susana.". (Photo: La Banda Films). Once it starts to dawn on Eligio that he’s been abandoned, he decides to locate his wife (Verónica Echegui, also quite good). It turns out she’s in Iowa, attending a university writing workshop. He sells his car and buys a one-way airline ticket, showing up with $4,000 in cash and no idea what he’s going to do once he finds her, other than bring her home. RELATED: Get out to see 'Get Out:' ...

Bernal Shines As Philandering Actor

... university. He heads north, where his more playful side gets him into immediate (although modest) trouble with customs. This signals that we’re in for some fish-out-of-water, culture-clash humor, and writer-director Roberto Sneider serves up plenty of it. More from Walter Addiego. A world-famous poet is hunted in ‘Neruda’. Eligio is aghast to find that his wife is hitting the sack with another workshop participant, a large, taciturn Polish poet. She eventually accepts her husband’s unasked-for presence — allowing him to crash in her dorm room — and they engage in some lively exchanges about the nature of their relationship. I’ve called this a comedy, but there are some serious undertones as Eligio learns a thing or two about the complexities of love and the reality of his own shortcomings. Toward the end, he is tested by an attractive and flirtatious young American woman ( Ashley Grace ). It’s always fun to watch the charismatic Bernal, and he gets ...

Gael García Bernal Slams Donald Trump's Border Wall At The 2017 Oscars

... Katherine Johnson (L) appears onstage with (L-R) actors Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer during the 89 th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images). 89 th Academy Awards - Oscars Awards Show - Hollywood, California, U. S. - 26/02/17 - Kevin OConnell wins the Oscar for Achievement in Sound Mixing. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson. HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Sound editor Sylvain Bellemare accepts Best Sound Editing for 'Arrival' onstage during the 89 th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images). HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Actors Sofia Boutella (L) and Chris Evans speak onstage during the 89 th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & ...

Can Gael Garcia Bernal Be Praised Enough

... world of classical music. He takes risks with impunity and spurns authority. Bernal has conversations with a young Mozart, his foremost maestro and spiritual guide, and bunks fundraising events to celebrate the birthday of his driver’s sister. The show has spectacular concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, operas in Venice and a massive orchestra, but Bernal is undoubtedly the star. Mozart in the Jungle (2016). With movies like Iñárritu’s multi-starrer Babel (2006) and Jonas Cuaron’s thriller Desertio (2016), Bernal is becoming a Hollywood fixture. He is one of the presenters of the Academy Awards in 2017. He will also play the successor to Antonio Banderas’s Zorro in Cuarón’s futuristic reboot of the 1998 movie The Mask of Zorro. Despite being at home in the world, Bernal prefers to stay rooted in Mexico City, where he runs the production company Canana Films with ...

The Subversive Pleasure Of Gael García Bernal's Scoundrel In 'you’re Killing Me Susana

... to buy a plane ticket to the United States, where his cavalier attitude amusingly gets him into trouble first with U. S. customs and then with a troublesome cabbie who drives him from the airport to the bucolic campus. Once Eligio connects with his wife (who, much to his disgust, everyone calls Susie), a series of surprises is in store, one for the audience being the realization that his reprobate actions notwithstanding, he really loves Susana. The surprise for Eligio is that though Susana, after the initial shock has worn off, is clearly happy to see him, she has also started a relationship with a fellow student, an enormous bearded monosyllabic Polish poet named Slawomir (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) who towers over the offended husband. Though much of "Susana" is successfully played for amusement, the arguments that husband and wife have over their changed situation and the reasons for it are quite serious and true to life. This is especially the case when Eligio inevitably starts acting like his old self even in frigid Iowa, becoming the center of attention and attracting notice from friendly, blond Irene ...

Highlights And Winners

... saved NASA and white people saved jazz,” he joked. “That’s what you call progress.”. People editor-in-chief Jess Cagle makes “Hidden Fences” flub on Oscars red carpet. “We don’t discriminate based on where people are from in Hollywood,” Kimmel continued. “We discriminate based on age and weight.”. After toasting “overrated” Meryl Streep for her 20 th nomination, Kimmel introduced a montage of past best supporting actor winners before Alicia Vikander took the stage to present the award to this year’s winner, Mahershala Ali. The “Moonlight” star thanked his teachers and professors. “It’s not about you,” he said they told him. “You’re in service to these stories and these characters.”. He also pointed out that his wife gave birth to their daughter four days ago. Kimmel got in one more political dig, asking anyone from CNN, the New York Times and the L. A. Times to leave the room. “We have no tolerance for fake ...

You’re Killing Me Susana’ Dulls Gael García Bernal’s Charms

... the same unexamined emotions. Like in those road trip movies, little really happens in the film. There are various vignettes revolving around a Mexican being in Iowa — going to a gun range, that sort of thing. The couple each have their infidelities — yes, the forlorn adulterous husband picks up a receptionist lover (Ashley Grace) on his quest to win his wife back — though the wife’s isn’t explored at all. Her matrimonial straying is with a giant hairy Pole (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) whose gaze never grows more complicated than “barbarian rape scowl” and whose purpose never extends beyond his size. Haraldsson plays a murderous, silent version of Jason Segel’s performance as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour: towering, poetic, and not given enough attention. The characters joke about the Pole’s impressive penis size in private (ha) but as far as allowing Susana any happiness from her dalliance, ...