227 Remedy 7 points
(Argentina/France, 2025)
Address and script: Brenda Taubin
Duración: 76 minutes
Interpreters: Alejandro Martín Ines, Olivier Witasse, Carolina Kleng, Pablo De Giovanni.
Premiere: in the Gaumont Room, Av. Rivadavia
It is true that cinema is the first – and perhaps the only one – discipline that is both an art and an industry, equation in which both factors are essential for the gestation of each work. But Sometimes making a movie can also be a game and allowing this characteristic to become evident is the clearest identity feature of 227 Remedysecond feature film of the Director Brenda Taubin. A particularity that is confirmed and reaffirmed in the permanent citations made to the work of French Georges Méliès, whose films perhaps represent the most playful moment within the history of cinema, and who many specialists consider the father of the special effects and promoter of science fiction in the seventh art.
Against what could be assumed from the previous paragraph, 227 Remedy It is not a fiction film, but a documentary That has An extraordinary character that stars in a fantastic story. This last word should not be read as allusion to the literary or cinematographic genre that tells stories of the order of fantasy. Rather, it is used in its most colloquial meaning, such as the adjective that defines an object as wonderful or magnificent.
That character is Alejandro Martín Ines, amateur astronomer And a lover since childhood of everything that has to do with the cosmos, its elements and dynamics. But also of the maps, that is, of the ways in which the territories are represented. Including those who are beyond the confines of this planet.
Alejandro is also the Personal cartography creatoran entrepreneurship in which it is dedicated to exquisite miniature versions of the celestial bodies that make up the solar system. That includes from our land and moon, to the sun and the rest of the planets, including the satellites that accompany them in their spins in space. With that his character becomes worthy of the curiosity of cinema.
But also, at the end of 2022 Alejandro He was contacted by Olivier Witasse, one of those responsible for the Juice mission, Initiative of the European Space Agency to study Jupiter’s icy moons: Ganymedes, Europe and Calisto. The idea was to order Alejandro 227 models at the scale of such satellites, to be delivered as souvenir to each of the members of the team involved in the mission.
227 Remedy is, then, The story of a desire fulfilled. The one of a baby who dreamed of the space that, already adult, manages to be recognized by the people who most admire in the world: the explorers of the universe. However, the film is far from being an idyllic story. Alejandro finds not a few problems to fulfill the commission without betraying the artisanal spirit of his project and the form he finds to solve them always fit perfectly with him.
In tune and synchrony with all that, Taubin also finds a way of registering the entire process with that same spirit, between innocent and dazzled, with which its protagonist advances through the story of his own life. It is there where the aesthetics that identifies the cinema of Méliès, especially that of Moon trip (1902), which is perhaps his most iconic film.
The director Play to illustrate Alejandro’s experience through paintings that put on stage the illusion of travel and adventure, counting for it with the complicity of a group of boys. In this way the idea is underlined, almost a common but timely place, that within each adult an “inner child” survives. Creature that in the case of Alejandro is quite in sight. And it is their spontaneous ability to marvel and get excited that makes 227 Remedy A pleasant, tender and sensitive experience.
