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Upon Open Sky

2023 [SPANISH]

Action / Crime / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 409 409

Plot summary

Two teen brothers and their newly-met stepsister take a road trip to the Mexico-U.S. border in a tense revenge journey to track down the man responsible for the accident that caused their father's death.

Top cast

Julio Cedillo as Lucio Estrada
Manolo Cardona as Fernando Villa
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
976.12 MB
1280*690
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  bg  cz  hr  hu  mk  pl  ro  sl  sr  
25 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 4
1.96 GB
1920*1036
Spanish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  bg  cz  hr  hu  mk  pl  ro  sl  sr  
25 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by yusufpiskin

Disappointment...

We all loved 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), and Amores Perros (2000) because, beyond being well-crafted productions, they boasted screenplays that told extraordinary stories.And this film is written by Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter of those three masterpieces. What's more, the film is directed by his own children, Mariana Arriaga and Santiago Arriaga.And yet, the film is a cinematic tragedy, a waste of its potential. Guillermo Arriaga has previously delivered films that hit you like a punch to the gut, leaving you with a lump in your throat. He aimed for something similar here, but the directorial choices are so dreadful that the film, instead of leaving you speechless, repels you.Oddly enough, I discovered this film through Spotify, as the score is by Ludovico Einaudi, and the soundtrack album was released after the film's screening at the Venice Film Festival. The general release was delayed for various reasons. As a fan of Spanish cinema, my excitement reached a fever pitch when I learned who the screenwriter was. But haven't 2023 and 2024 already been years of dashed expectations for cinephiles who placed their faith in beloved names?For me, this film falls squarely into that category.
Reviewed by JuanAsilo 6 / 10

Grief's, revenge n should be short?

Reviewed by aliochacoll 2 / 10

The same chichés

The same clichés as his father Guillermo Arriaga but very bland and with pretensions of auteur cinema. It is difficult not to notice that the shadow of Guillermo Arriaga's films is present in every minute of the film: the rustic north as a setting (Babel and the Three Burials of Melquíades Estrada, the novel Salvar el fuego),the protagonist with an imperious need to go "to the north" (the novel El Salvaje),characters with no apparent psychological evolution (Babel),the snooping of a minor always towards his sister (Babel),the theme of hunting (Babel),amoral sexual relations (like Octavio's love affair with Susana in Amores Perros),the moral superiority of the bourgeoisie (like in El Salvaje, Salvar el Fuego, 21 grams, or Las extrañas),a nondescript working-class character who commits an unintentional murder and cries for mercy on his knees from the bourgeoisie (like Jack Jordan in 21 grams),forgiveness as the culmination of thethe expressionless protagonist, crude in his interpersonal dealings, solitary - and who makes one think of a certain autism - but who is morally superior to the average character (like Manuel in El Búfalo de la Noche, Juan Guillermo in El Salvaje, José Cuauhtémoc in Salvar el Fuego)and of course the theme of revenge (Amores Perros, Babel, 21 grams, El Salvaje, Salvar el fuego).All these themes are mixed here in a blender without lactose, without caffeine, without any emotion. There is no real contribution to cinematography in any sense, only "bread with the same". The only thing that stands out is the need to show the public that Arriaga's children are going to continue with the same themes as their father and that there will be no evolution.
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