We live in a society that insists if you work hard, you can probably achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself. But “Problemista,” the first feature film by writer and comedian Julio Torres, which is now in theaters worldwide, poses the question: is working hard always enough? Loosely based off …
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Two well-reviewed indies are taking a bow in limited release in the shadow of Dune, A24’s Problemista by Julio Torres, and Shayda from Sony Pictures Classics, the feature debut of Noora Niasari. Torres, the comedian, actor and writer, in his directorial debut, stars with Tilda Swinton as Problemista gets its …
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In Julio Torres’ delightfully surrealist debut characteristic Problemista, a boy anxious to drag off the seemingly unimaginable meets a girl who has by no means considered her calls for as unbelievable. What an unlikely pair they make: Alejandro (performed by Torres), an aspiring toy designer determined for a piece visa, …
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Julio Torres extracts the fanciful from the mundane. In his HBO particular My Favourite Shapes, the stand-up riffs on a set of random plastic objects. Maybe probably the most well-known of the deeply authentic, usually shifting sketches he wrote in his tenure at SNL centered on a person (Ryan Gosling) …
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Comment on this story Comment RIO DE JANEIRO — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ousted the head of Brazil’s army on Saturday, moving against the most senior military officer to be held accountable after the Jan. 8 insurrection, when right-wing rioters rampaged through this nation’s halls of power. The …
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