{"id":5059,"date":"2007-08-13T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2015-03-13T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:02:25","slug":"locarno-film-review-roser-aguilars-the-best-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=5059","title":{"rendered":"LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Roser Aguilar&#8217;s &#8216;The Best of Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lo-mejor-de-mi-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5060\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lo-mejor-de-mi-4.jpg\" alt=\"lo-mejor-de-mi-4\" width=\"450\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lo-mejor-de-mi-4.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lo-mejor-de-mi-4-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LOCARNO, Switzerland &#8212; Barcelona director Roser Aguilar has taken a familiar yarn of young lives being interrupted by serious illness and spun it into something satisfyingly tart and unsentimental in &#8220;The Best of Me&#8221; (Lo mejor de mi).<\/p>\n<p>Screened in competition here, the film has bright commercial prospects, while the director&#8217;s smart venture into well-worn territory and an outstanding lead performance by Marian Alvares will assure continued festival attention.<\/p>\n<p>Alvares makes the picture as she shows that beneath her beautiful features there is a serous brain at work despite her apparently guileless nature.<\/p>\n<p>Aguilar and co-writer Oriol Capel provide her with good material to work with and the strength of Alvares&#8217;s performance adds depth to the picture&#8217;s wise and melancholy conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>This review appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland &#8212; Barcelona director Roser Aguilar has taken a familiar yarn of young lives being interrupted by serious illness and spun it into something satisfyingly tart and unsentimental in &#8220;The Best of Me&#8221; (Lo mejor de &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=5059\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2652,14],"tags":[2672,795,2671,2673],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-locarno-international-film-festival","category-reviews","tag-the-best-of-me","tag-locarno-international-film-festival","tag-marian-alvares","tag-roser-aguilar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}