Nowhere is a 2023 survival thriller film directed by Albert Pint [ca] from a screenplay by Ernest Riera, Miguel Ruz, Indiana Lista, Seanne Winslow, and Teresa Rosendoy which stars Anna Castillo alongside Tamar Novas. Taking place in a dystopian setting, the plot follows Mia (Castillo), separated from her husband after a totalitarian government takes over their home country.
Mia and Nico decide to leave Spain due to a global crisis that has caused a shortage of necessities and the emergence of a tyrannical government which is killing civilians in an attempt to control a resources shortage. The couple fear for their lives and the safety of their unborn child. They had previously lost their firstborn daughter, Uma, who the military took away from them as part of a genocidal attempt at reducing Spain's population by killing children, the elderly, and pregnant women. She is presumed dead. Mia blames herself for Uma being taken and carries the guilt with her.
Nico's plan is for them to escape to Ireland by being transported on a cargo ship. Ireland is mentioned in a broadcast as one of the few countries left in Europe that has managed to control the resources crisis and maintain a democratic government (along with Iceland, Russia and Norway). The couple get onto a container to be carried by a truck. However, the smugglers separate them when Nico is forced out of the container and onto another container. At a military checkpoint, the military kills everyone in the container but Mia as she hid on top of a stack of crates. Later, Mia tries to phone Nico to warn him of the danger but fails to reach him.
All containers, including Mia's, are loaded onto a ship. Later a storm causes the containers to fall into the ocean. Her container, slowly filling with water, has a cargo of Tupperware household containers, packaged earphones, packaged flatscreen TVs, bottled vodka, and packaged hoodies, all of which she uses to help herself survive, along with a drill, some tape, and a penknife she had managed to salvage from earlier. Upon hearing screams, she looks in a bullet hole, through which she spots another container, packed with people and sinking underwater, just a few meters away. After two days in the container, Nico phones her and tells her he is on the way to rescue her.
That night, Mia gives birth during a storm to a daughter, Noa. Mia becomes determined to fight for their chances of survival despite being severely weakened, having delusions of Uma, and resorting to eating her placenta. As the water level inside the container rises, Mia manages to puncture a hole in the roof using the drill and the penknife, and she and Noa climb on top of it. While trying to capture the attention of a passing airplane, Mia severely gashes her leg. She stitches it using parts from the TVs and uses some vodka to sterilize the wound. She later manages to catch fish using a makeshift net.
Nico phones Mia after roughly twenty days, revealing his precarious health condition after being shot and his unlikely chance of survival. Mia is devastated but shares the news of their daughter's birth with Nico in their final conversation. Nico urges Mia to continue fighting and reach Ireland, promising to always be with them in spirit.
Mia constructs a makeshift raft using materials from the container and drifts in the ocean after the container sinks, hoping for a miracle. Eventually, a family on a fishing boat spots Noa on the floating raft. Mia, however, is unconscious and tied to the raft with a rope. They bring her on board their boat and perform CPR, successfully reviving her.
Based on a story by Indiana Lista,[2][3] the screenplay was penned by Ernest Riera, Miguel Ruz, Indiana Lista, Seanne Winslow, and Teresa Rosendoy.[4] The film was produced by Miguel Ruz, with Ruz's partner at Rock & Ruz Jordi Roca serving as executive producer.[5] Shooting locations included the port of Tarragona [es].[6]
Nowhere was made available to stream on Netflix on 29 September 2023.[7] It reportedly commanded substantial attention on the platform, with over 24 million views after three days,[7] and becoming the most viewed non-English language Netflix film of 2023.[8]
Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave two-and-a-half stars out of four to the film, stating "There are some disappointing choices in the film's directing, but Castillo should make a lot of those easy to overlook."[10] Manuel D'Ocon of Fotogramas gave a rating of three out of four stars, saying "However, the good message of the story remains and leaves a mark: hope always takes one step further than mankind."[11][a]
David Lorao of HobbyConsolas rated the film with 33 points ('bad'), assessing that, as the title hints, it goes nowhere, nor does it have any narrative interest, otherwise singling out the "portentous" performance by Castillo as a positive point.[12]
Beln Prieto of El Espaol rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, citing that writing is perhaps the film's weakest part, otherwise writing that "any 'but' that can be put on Nowhere is more than compensated by Anna Castillo".[13]
My first job was to consolidate all our existing movies spread across various hard drives onto a single NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit. The Synergy DS118 has a useful USB Copy function that allows me to plug in my USB Hard Drives into the NAS and copy the movies and music straight across.
For new content, we are going to use an Android app called PlayOn Cloud, which looks like a groovy solution. PlayOn Cloud is a streaming video recorder (SVR) located in the cloud. I can ask them to record content from Netflix, Amazon, ABC iView, Youtube and the BBC plus a few others and once that recording is complete, they email us an .mp4 file download link, which I can use to download the mp4 file to my Plex installation on my NAS. Each recording costs 50c a copy or less if you buy a larger pack.
Finally we decided to invest in a 1080P Android TV mini projector. We ended up going for a XGIMI MOGO Pro, with Harman/Kardon Speakers and its great. No need to connect your phone, tablet or laptop, it can pull up Youtube, Plex, Amazon etc straight from the Wifi. And its battery powered meaning we can have movie nights in our upstairs lounge or on the beach under the stars.
Mrs Kano's Cinemamovies showing nowhere! Films you won't find anywhere else! Films you've always wanted to see! On the day Cate came into the world, her mum left it. Her dad is often distant and silent, so she keeps herself entertained with kung fu films, her pet rabbit and her photography. Then one afternoon Cate receives a mysterious invitation to an abandoned cinema, and everything changes.
Soon Cate meets the peculiar Mrs Kano and discovers a most unusual kind of movie screen - the kind that lets you step through it into a memory. So begins a wonder-filled adventure through time that will teach Cate the true meaning of love, loss and learning to let go.
'A beautiful, twisty, time-travelling tale' Lisa Thompson, author of The Goldfish Boy. 'This is GENIUS. Brilliant, beautiful and breathtakingly original' Sophie Anderson, author of The House With Chicken Legs.
Cate's mum died the day Cate was born, her dad is distant and distracted and the person who shows the most interest in her is mean Cornelia from next door. Then Cate meets Mrs Kano and is lead to her unusual cinema and its ability to take people back into the past.
Movies Showing Nowhere is a story about memories, grief and moving on. There are many moments which children will find relatable, such as Cate's feelings towards her 'Interfering' neighbour, but younger readers might find the slightly detached style different from what they are used to.
Towards the beginning of Asteroid City, when we first arrive at the titular town, the camera pans and lingers in Wes Anderson fashion on key features, and we see something that explains the grand name of this tiny outpost: a half-finished bridge, complete on one side and suddenly, humorously, ending at its middle above the single road through town. A sign beside it says, \u201CRamp Closed Indefinitely\u201D. This place is full of unmet aspiration and little else, a small town that once dreamt of being a big city. This image also serves as an apt metaphor for the film itself: incomplete, unfulfilled, promising something greater than it is.
We are brought into the town by way of a black-and-white introduction, which reveals that the film we\u2019ve bought tickets to is not a film at all but a play whose production we are granted behind-the-scenes access to. So it was that first the lights fell in my cinema and then my spirits; few things are as certain to dampen my enthusiasm for a film like being incessantly reminded that the film is mere artifice, and that suspending my credulity to actually enjoy the thing would make me a sucker, as if all of this postmodernity hadn\u2019t already played itself out quite some time ago.
Yet \u2013 credit where it\u2019s due \u2013 I found myself quickly forgetting that the colour scenes set in Asteroid City were \u201Cfake\u201D (as in, false within the world of the film). No matter how many times we returned to the production story of the play, and in spite of title cards that announced the act we were in, I lost myself in the rhythm of the play\u2019s narrative and the stellar performances of the actors playing actors in a play within the film. (All this Babushka doll nonsense does get tedious.)
All the actors are on fine form in Asteroid City, from the Anderson regulars to the newcomers. Steve Carell puts some meat on the bare bones of his small role, and it\u2019s great to see Sophia Lillis, who was a standout in It: Chapter One, on a big screen again. This might also be one of my favourite performances from Anderson veteran Jason Schwartzman, who loads the subtext of his character\u2019s silences with real pathos, and he does so with subtlety. There is a maturity to Asteroid City, a certain restraint that feels, if not new to an Anderson film, particularly refined here, and I think much of that is thanks to Schwartzman\u2019s grieving-without-grieving widower.
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