Mexican family drama with incestuous siblings. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Description: Siblings Helena (Irene Azuela) and Sebastian (Angel Onesimo Nevarez) develop the hots for each other while caring for their dying, cancer-ridden mom, former pop singer Eugenia (Claudette Maille). Add in the family’s snooping maid Chaya (Aida Lopez); the awkward homoerotic impulses Sebastian feels for the new boy at school, Juan (Bernardo Benitez); and the familiar tropes of a sprawling bourgeois manse on the edge of decay and the oppressive atmosphere of Sebastian’s Catholic-run school, and the film would seem awash in cliches and narrative minefields.
Instead, Franco and screenwriter Maria Renee Prudencio find a groove early on that keeps the film hopping with the unexpected, hinging everything on the volatile emotions of a pair of teens on the precipice of major life changes. A fascinating tension results from how 19-year-old Helena, the eldest, must stay at home, while Sebastian, who’s still in school, is free to roam and possibly connect with a companion — even a potentially dangerous character like Juan. Helena stews in the old house (rendered as a perfect place for eavesdropping by Lizette Ponce’s ingenious production design) while he plays, and hidden jealousies between the pair explode in the pic’s second half, after mom dies and the fate of the house is unsure.
At this point, “Burn the Bridges” taps into a new energy source, ushering in a fresh set of problems involving rich kid Ismael (Ramon Valdes) — who also has repressed desires for Sebastian — and young Aurora (Jessica Segura) — who rents a room in the house. Though it never pushes its tone toward overt black comedy, pic carries strong reverberations from the earliest and latest films of Marco Bellocchio — the wild nature of family units, the powerful position held by the youngest male and the urge for freedom in a heavy Catholic atmosphere, all captured with vibrant and brawny cinematic technique. Franco elicits amazing perfs from his generally young cast, with Azuela and Nevarez vividly capturing teen dizziness, creative impulses and sexual indecisiveness. Benitez, Valdes and Segura keep the film operating on a giddy and highly engaging level.
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Subtitles:
http://subscene.com/english/Burn-the-Bridges-Quemar-las-naves/subtitle-192191.aspx
