![]() ![]() SEBASTIAN CORDERO: I think as filmmakers, sometimes we learn more from failures than stuff that does work. ![]() Did you watch these lesser genre entries to make sure your film wouldn’t make the same mistakes? Following up with that gritty crime thriller with the serial killer suspense of CRONICAS, the dangerously erotic RAGE and the drugs of PESCADOR, Cordero’s new, and biggest venture translates his talent for suspense to a realm where no one can hear you scream – at least during one especially awful mishap outside the Europa-bound mission.Ĭontrasting the happy talk of the mission controllers with a voyage that’s rapidly entering the twilight zone, Cordero’s absolutely believable EUROPA REPORT gets high marks for how one filmmaker has blasted a cliché-bound genre to the heights of grippingly believable sci-fi effectiveness.ĪSSIGNMENT X: There are so many “found footage” movies, and most of them are done sloppily, which makes the suspense and technical skill that EUROPA REPORT displays all the more astonishing. Having trained at USC, Cordero moved back to his native country, which he practically put on the cinematic map with the international festival hit RATAS, RATONES, RATEROS. It’s a voyage of exuberance that soon will turn to terror – even as its brave voyagers hold together their optimism that this doomed voyage has somehow all been worth it.Ĭonjuring the never-say-die spirit of THE RIGHT STUFF as much as it does the dread of ALIEN, EUROPA REPORT represents the supremely confident sci-fi level up of Ecuadorian filmmaker Sebastian Cordero. Rarely has a format’s tired bones been jolted with a bravura display of technical savvy, excellent performances (including DISTRICT 9‘s Sharito Copley) and completely gripping suspense that transports the viewer into the confines of a spaceship bound for Jupiter’s moon – a place where science (not to mention 2010) has told us that some sort of existence might lie in the waters below an ice crust. That makes the findings of EUROPA REPORT the genre equivalent of discovering extra-terrestrial life. This has increasingly become the same old “found footage” story that masks an excuse for shoddy filmmaking and amateurish acting, with everyone from teens to astronauts getting into the usually (and unfortunately) profitable act. One thing you can be sure of when watching a video, VHS or Hi-8 that someone has salvaged is that those people we’re watching on any given media have met a dark end. Sebastian Cordero | ©2013 Sebastian Cordero ![]()
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