Criticism of ‘The Empire of Light’: For and against in the controversy of the month

Please, by Blai Morell

Although the idea of ​​the healing power of cinema underlies the footage at all times, this not at all cloying trip to the tumultuous England of the early 80s is not Sam Mendes’ ‘Cinema Paradiso’.

It is a story about darkness and life that navigates between personal tragedies without the story losing its way in which the life insurance company named Olivia Colman perfectly embodies the pain and longing of her character. It is cinema against the current that asks the viewer to take an act of faith: to leave cynicism at the door of the great temple and to open your heart to enjoy a film that tries to make our lives a little happier..

Against, by Antonio Trashorras

Not falling in love with a movie starring Olivia Colman makes you look like a balloon-pigger, an ungrateful, bitter lord. The fucking magnifies so much, adds so much humanity to any material, no matter how bland, conventional or derivative, that questioning films like this one ends up being a bit at the level of the kitten killer.

I know and I assume it, but, sorry for not finishing buying such a postcard with a rattle hanging and a social sermon on the back that the always passive-aggressive Sam Mendes tries to sell us as a ‘love letter to the cinema’.

DATA SHEET

Address: sam mendes Distribution: Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie Country: United Kingdom Year: 2022 Release date: 31–3-2023 Gender: Drama Script: sam mendes Duration: 119 min.

Synopsis: A love story set around a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s.