{"id":563639,"date":"2023-03-14T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-problemista-review-tilda-swinton-overshadows-julio-torres-debut\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:00:26","slug":"watch-problemista-review-tilda-swinton-overshadows-julio-torres-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-problemista-review-tilda-swinton-overshadows-julio-torres-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Problemista&#8217; Review: Tilda Swinton Overshadows Julio Torres&#8217; Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a4ca9d9a9c94\" 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-6a4ca9d9a9c94\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-problemista-review-tilda-swinton-overshadows-julio-torres-debut\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Problemista_Review_Tilda_Swinton_Overshadows_Julio_Torres_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Problemista&#8217; Review: Tilda Swinton Overshadows Julio Torres&#8217; Debut&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-problemista-review-tilda-swinton-overshadows-julio-torres-debut\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Problemista_Review_Tilda_Swinton_Overshadows_Julio_Torres_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Problemista&#8217; Review: Tilda Swinton Overshadows Julio Torres&#8217; Debut&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Problemista_Review_Tilda_Swinton_Overshadows_Julio_Torres_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Problemista&#8217; Review: Tilda Swinton Overshadows Julio Torres&#8217; Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Problemista_Review_Tilda_Swinton_Overshadows_Julio_Torres_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Problemista&#8217; Review: Tilda Swinton Overshadows Julio Torres&#8217; Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Some folks have it easy, and others make life difficult for themselves. Guess which type \u201cProblemista\u201d is about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life\u2019s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind 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 egg paintings no one seems to understand. Swinton feels like a future Halloween costume in search of a movie in writer-director Julio Torres\u2019 overly kooky and all-too-quixotic debut \u2014 another attention-deficit comedy from the studio that made \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once,\u201d except that Torres lacks the technical experience to pull off even a fraction of the ideas to which he aspires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That\u2019s a waste of such an up-for-anything talent as Swinton, who\u2019s presented here as the human equivalent of a fire-breathing dragon. What isn\u2019t remotely clear is why, from the moment this insufferable woman <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\">app<\/a>ears on-screen, Torres\u2019 character, an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro, would want to work for her. His excuse, as best as the movie can explain, is that he\u2019s from El Salvador and living in New York on a temporary visa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Ale\u2019s just been fired from FreezeCorp, a quack company that sells people the promise of putting them in cryogenic sleep until future scientists develop the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> to revive them, and Swinton\u2019s Elizabeth might be willing to extend his visa. The odds of her actually doing so seem extremely low, although that\u2019s the very loose premise that brings these two characters together: Elizabeth, a high-maintenance personality with a knack for creating conflict wherever she goes, and Ale, who sought out the most difficult place he could live after being coddled his entire childhood. (\u201cThe Maid\u201d star Catalina Saavedra plays his artistic mom, who looks concerned on the other end of frequent calls back home.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What Ale really wants to do is make toys for Hasbro. According to him, the problem with all the kids\u2019 products on the market these days is that \u201cthey are a little bit too preoccupied with fun.\u201d Contained in that line is a clue to Torres\u2019 peculiar sensibility, developed over years as a stand-up comic and TV writer, first for \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and later as the creator of oddball HBO sitcom \u201cLos Espookys\u201d: \u201cProblemista\u201d knows it\u2019s not for everyone and seems not at all conflicted about leaving the vast majority of people out of the joke. Meanwhile, there\u2019s hardly any rhyme or reason to the cast. (Why RZA? What is Larry Owens doing here as \u201cCraigslist\u201d? And hasn\u2019t Isabella Rossellini narrated enough artsy-fartsy indies for one lifetime?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Maybe it\u2019s a generational thing, but I find it tough to identify with characters who come across as passive agents in their own lives. The film describes Ale as a dreamer, but Torres plays him as a slump-shouldered incompetent, shuffling through life like a shy teenager, his hair arranged (with one stray stand always sticking up) to suggest he can\u2019t even operate a comb, much less FileMaker Pro, the overcomplicated database app that Elizabeth considers to be his lone job requirement. Surely Ale, with his kill-joy toy ideas, can appreciate that old chestnut: It\u2019s called \u201cwork\u201d for a reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    No one should have to tolerate such an entitled boss as Elizabeth, and yet, the movie\u2019s funniest moments are micro-sketches in which she \u201cbecomes a problem\u201d for whomever the nearest wage-earning customer service representative might be, whether it\u2019s an Apple tech support agent (\u201cWhere are my photos? You\u2019re erasing my memories!\u201d), an oblivious waiter or hapless Ale himself. \u201cDon\u2019t scream at me!\u201d she yells, should one of these minions dare to talk back. She may be dressed like a gyaru street punk, but Swinton conducts herself like a holy terror from a previous century who\u2019s been waited on by servants all her life \u2014 and that\u2019s amusing, up to a point. But it can\u2019t be the only joke a movie milks for 104 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Torres does take aim at other targets, but they feel pretty mundane by comparison. He doesn\u2019t understand why Bank of America levies fees on customers with no money, for example (most comics get that one out of their system pretty early), and he spends a lot of time unpacking the perverse job offers one can find on Craigslist (depicted here as a fabulous genie in a demented parallel dimension). Ale agrees to be a \u201ccleaning boy\u201d in one scene, but it feels like he forgot to include the punchline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cProblemista\u201d is most effective when it\u2019s offering a millennial take on the absurdity of bureaucracy (Ale\u2019s fellow immigrants literally disappear when their visas expire) and the awkwardness of working for a tyrant like Elizabeth. Director Terry Gilliam has covered much of this territory before, most famously in \u201cBrazil,\u201d from which Torres borrows the image of an endless labyrinth of tiny rooms. That movie was misunderstood by its studio, Universal, whereas filmmaker-oriented A24 seems to have put too much faith in its director here. For all his funny ideas, it doesn\u2019t feel like Torres has a consistent world view, and the movie is poorly organized and unwieldy as a consequence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bizarre glimpses of Ale\u2019s fairy-tale childhood do not a proper backstory make, and wanting to work for Hasbro hardly feels like a serious goal. Torres gives Ale a roommate and a rival (James Scully), but fails to do much of anything with them, preferring to let Swinton chew the scenery for most of the movie. \u201cProblemista\u201d doesn\u2019t know where to go with it all, to the extent that Torres can\u2019t decide between three endings \u2014 demanding a job at Hasbro, paying homage to unsung artists and flashing forward three centuries. That\u2019s the downside to the \u201cEverything Everywhere\u201d approach. 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