A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of Melancholy
The tagline for Iair Said’s sophomore film More People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas) could very well be “Death Be Not Loud,” as it examines a somewhat hapless thirtysomething, played by the director himself, who returns home for a funeral and experiences something resembling an epiphany regarding his own search for fulfillment. Like Said’s previous directorial effort, the 2019 documentary Flora’s Life is No Picnic, death is the transitional phase acting as dramatic catalyst, used as an impetus for the living to grasp for meaning in either an existential or economic sense.…...
The tagline for Iair Said’s sophomore film More People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas) could very well be “Death Be Not Loud,” as it examines a somewhat hapless thirtysomething, played by the director himself, who returns home for a funeral and experiences something resembling an epiphany regarding his own search for fulfillment. Like Said’s previous directorial effort, the 2019 documentary Flora’s Life is No Picnic, death is the transitional phase acting as dramatic catalyst, used as an impetus for the living to grasp for meaning in either an existential or economic sense.…...
- 4/1/2025
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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