Saturday (2002)
One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.
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I love this movie so much
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Admirable film.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Don't waste a second watching this crap. Extremely boring. A self referential movie. The character plays the real actor that is himself, as if he were a kind of devalued, Latin, John Malcovich's "Being John Malcovich". The best you can do is picking another Spanish movie, there are a lot with good content or at least entertaining. Don't waste a second watching this crap. Bad performances. Bad script. Everything's bad. So painful, that one just can't found much words to complete the 10 lines required to post a review. I'm almost reaching the 9th line, but I can tell you anymore, just take my advice and you will gain time and won't get a headache after watching this crap
I have just watched this movie on a Latin channel here in Miami. I found it incredibly boring and full of overstretched nonsense dialogues that are as dumb as they can get. Even for an Argentine like me this Argentine movie was pointless so I can assume it is even more boring for non-Argentine viewers.I cannot think of a good reason why this movie was even made. I cannot stress enough how tedious the dialogues are (e.g.: "-It's strange two meet you twice in the same date. -It can happen. -But it's strange. -But it can happen. -But it's strange. -Yeah, but, you know, it can happen"). Enough said.No message, no plot. Invest your 72 minutes in something else.
Maybe I'm getting too grumpy and too particular, but Sabado (Saturday) is basically a juiced-up six-character play with outdoor scenes.The object of this film, which extends (mercifully) for only 72 minutes, is to show human alienation. It doesn't really succeed. What it does show is human tedium and boredom; it shows, rather unconvincingly, people who are looking for a little spice in their dismal lives.After watching the master of human detachment or alienation, England's Mike Leigh, Sabado emerges as a pretty unsatisfactory statement on the same subject, this time in the destructive restrictions of IMF, which ripped Argentina's (among other countries) economy apart. It does show, quite well it seems, the frustration of youngish (but not that young) people who are never quite sure what they want.There is some quirky humour in this film, but it could have used a lot more. When you compare this to 'Naked,' Leigh's 1993 masterwork on alienation (and wicked dark humour), Sabado just limps along, too static and not very powerful. There is another great film I recall -- 'Humanite,' by France's Mario Dumont, that depicts alienation with such vividness that it is all but tactile.
I had the chance to see this movie at the Latin BEAT festival in New York City in 2003. I will not comment on the plot, there is almost no plot, but that it is a really well achieved portrayal of a Generation of young argentinians that wander. They don't have money, Argentina is bankrupted, and they have nothing to do on a Saturday. Indiferent whether the plan is to go out or stay at home, go for a drive or walk, there is nihilism all aver the movie and this can be annoying. It is not if you think that the movie was actually made by kids the generation of those depicted in the movie. If you saw Richard Linklater's "slacker", well, this is the new millennium argie version.