{"id":3817,"date":"2007-08-01T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2021-01-20T02:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:06:53","slug":"skyline-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3817","title":{"rendered":"Skyline (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This city is very intense: you&#8217;ve got to look for your own way, and make the most of it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Skyline-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Skyline-Poster-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Skyline-Poster-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Skyline-Poster-106x128.jpg 106w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Skyline-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Spanish photographer named Gustavo (Antonio Resines) spends the summer in New York, where he struggles to learn English, tries to sell his work to a big-name magazine, and woos a beautiful Spanish expatriate (Beatriz Perez Porro).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immigrants and Immigration<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Photographers<\/li>\n<li>Spanish Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nWriter\/director Fernando Colomo clearly based much of this semi-autobiographical film on his own experiences as a visitor in the United States. He perfectly captures the frustration of not being able to understand or speak the language around you, and of expats&#8217; tendency to latch on to those few who do. Yet the story itself fails to compel, mostly because Gustavo&#8217;s stubborn insistence on trying to sell his photos of New York buildings (which, by the way, we never see) doesn&#8217;t make any sense; when told very gently yet directly that the kind of work he&#8217;s created has already been done, he doesn&#8217;t seem to take the hint. Similarly, he continues to pursue a young woman (Porro) who&#8217;s never expressed any interest in him. Worst of all, however, is the film&#8217;s ending, which is enormously unsatisfying. Overall, this one is a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An honest depiction of the language difficulties faced by immigrants and expatriates in America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0085880\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/04\/03\/movies\/new-directors-new-films-skyline-from-spain.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This city is very intense: you&#8217;ve got to look for your own way, and make the most of it.&#8221; Synopsis: A Spanish photographer named Gustavo (Antonio Resines) spends the summer in New York, where he struggles to learn English, tries to sell his work to a big-name magazine, and woos a beautiful Spanish expatriate (Beatriz Perez Porro). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Immigrants and Immigration New York City Photographers Spanish Films Review: Writer\/director Fernando Colomo clearly based much of this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3817\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64652,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/64652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}