{"id":200025,"date":"2021-03-12T00:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-fauna-review-a-study-in-identity-and-performance\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:52:35","slug":"watch-fauna-review-a-study-in-identity-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-fauna-review-a-study-in-identity-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Fauna&#8217; Review: A Study in Identity and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2718f82b79d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2718f82b79d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-fauna-review-a-study-in-identity-and-performance\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Fauna_Review_A_Study_in_Identity_and_Performance%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Fauna&#8217; Review: A Study in Identity and Performance&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-fauna-review-a-study-in-identity-and-performance\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Fauna_Review_A_Study_in_Identity_and_Performance%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Fauna&#8217; Review: A Study in Identity and Performance&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Fauna_Review_A_Study_in_Identity_and_Performance%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Fauna&#8217; Review: A Study in Identity and Performance&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Fauna_Review_A_Study_in_Identity_and_Performance%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Fauna&#8217; Review: A Study in Identity and Performance&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cFauna\u201d is a curious proposition. On the surface, the ninth feature from Mexican-Canadian independent filmmaker Nicol\u00e1s Pereda consists of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of dialogue-driven scenes taking place in a remote Mexican village where an estranged brother and sister are visiting their parents. Yet such a de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion can\u2019t quite capture the slippery nature of Pereda\u2019s script, which slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country\u2019s cultural imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Highly intellectual in theory (the film debuted in the 2020 virtual Toronto Film Festival\u2019s experimental Wavelengths section), \u201cFauna\u201d is nevertheless a breezy, utterly beguiling affair, even as it switches gears midway through. At that point, Pereda <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>ly stages a new, nested narrative, one that reinvents the principal cast as playful film noir archetypes, further muddling the line between fact and fiction in the movie\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> \u201cFauna\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> opens with working actors Luisa (Luisa Pardo) and Gabino (Gabino Rodr\u00edguez) driving along a winding road. Instead of showing the characters, the camera gazes out on the route ahead as they quarrel over directions and offhandedly mention how much more dangerous these roads are at night. Like many of the scenes that follow, this opening moment stresses the way Pereda\u2019s words will be the driving force of \u201cFauna\u201d: Luisa and Gabino\u2019s conversation functions almost like a radio play for minutes on end before we actually get to see their faces. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">By the time the couple arrives at their destination, where her brother Paco (Francisco Barreiro) joins them soon after, their terse, Mamet-like dialogue establishes a truncated rhythm that dominates much of the film. <\/span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> awkwardness between Gabino \u2014 whose most recent credit is a bit part in \u201cNarcos: M\u00e9xico\u201d opposite that one famous Mexican actor whose name no one in the film cares to remember \u2014 and the men in Luisa\u2019s family are mere preambles to the central concern of this droll deadpan project.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping his actors in medium still shots throughout, Pereda lets his scenes play out in real time. The discomfort Gabino feels when Luisa\u2019s father (Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez L\u00f3pez) turns his stony gaze on him and asks him to perform a scene from \u201cNarcos: Mexico\u201d is palpable. There is no cut to alleviate the tension, just the mounting stillness that signals to Gabino the scene won\u2019t end until he complies. It doesn\u2019t matter that he had no lines in the show\u2019s first season; Laura\u2019s father insists he show them his acting skills. Watching the actor (who does, in fact, play Francisco Arellano F\u00e9lix in the Netflix drama) mime his way through a dialogue-free scene is as laughable and discomfiting as it sounds. When asked to repeat it, he delivers a Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo monologue lifted straight from the series\u2019 season one finale.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez is entrancing as he expertly mimics Diego Luna\u2019s ferocious version of the character. The actor offers a funhouse mirror of a performance that both quotes and comments on Luna\u2019s portrayal, leaning into an accent and an affectation that will feel familiar even if you miss the specificity of its reference. Similarly, a later scene where Luisa and her mother (Teresa S\u00e1nchez) rehearse a monologue from Ingmar Bergman\u2019s \u201cAutumn Sonata\u201d is both a searing acting showcase and a powerful commentary on the pains of motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s latter half, which bills itself as a dramatization of the book Paco is reading (a noir-like story about a young man searching for a so-called Rosendo Mendieta: \u201cIt\u2019s best if you stop looking for him\u201d) turns \u201cFauna\u201d into a dark-witted satire that traffics in well-worn tropes about masculine toxicity and queer undertones (flirting, it seems, with that 2001 film that first made Luna a star).<\/p>\n<p>Pereda delights in heightening his film\u2019s absurdity while couching it in otherwise quite mundane moments. The seriousness of his performers (who, as in past collaborations, are finely attuned to his off-kilter sensibility) make what sound like mere acting exercises into probing meditations on performance and storytelling, as well as powerful indictments of Mexico\u2019s contemporary cultural imaginary.<\/p>\n<p>In the tales Gabino, Luisa and Paco weave both for themselves and for the audience, the specter of violence is always hovering right off screen. Word that a miner was disappeared two years ago, or that a woman hopes to help her sister Fauna escape from town, are throwaway lines that hint at an ever present danger that tinges the everyday life Pereda and his acting troupe are conjuring. Their attempts at directing one another, rehearsing lines and constructing make-believe scenarios, feel like attempts at controlling their dour reality, even as they slowly veer into ever darker territory.<\/p>\n<p>With a breezy 70 minute runtime, \u201cFauna\u201d is a delightful puzzle of a film. Even as it leans heavily into its metafictional conceits, laying bare just how much of its second half, for instance, is pure fantasy (or is it?), Pereda\u2019s actors find ways of unearthing emotionally wrenching moments.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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