Wandering Girl (2018)
★★★ — Wandering Girl (2018)
Rubén Mendoza is a Colombian director who has worked steadily across fiction and documentary since the mid-2000s, with features like La sociedad del semáforo (2010) bringing him international festival attention. Wandering Girl (originally titled La niña errante) is a Colombia-France co-production, brought together with the involvement of Dago García Producciones, one of Colombia's more commercially active studios, alongside French co-producer Ciné-Sud Promotion, a company with a long record of backing southern-hemisphere art cinema. The film premiered in 2018 and sits within a broader wave of Latin American road movies that use the physical journey as a frame for questions of gender, family, and identity. Carolina Ramírez, the most recognisable face in the cast, had already built a substantial television following in Colombia before taking a role here that sits well outside mainstream territory.
A-Z World Movie Tour Colombia Don't bother watching the trailer. I thought I was going to love this film. A story about a teenage girl going through the grief of losing her father, travelling Colombia with sisters she doesn't know to move in with an auntie she doesn't know. A family drama with a coming of age story Now.. in fairness... this film is absolutely beautifully shot. The cinematography is gorgeous and the soundtrack that accompanies it is great. The movie falls down in the screenplay itself. There are way too many long scenes with no talking at all. You're kind of expected to fill the gaps yourself. You have to decide how Angela is feeling because she barely speaks. I've said it a million times. Movies are either an escape from reality or a reflection of it. This is TOO much in the reflection of reality. A teenager who won't express her feelings. It's great from an art perspective but not so much fun as a viewer.
Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2018 | Watched: 2025-06-07
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