Jone, sometimes: Cinema and vibrating bodies (***)

Everything that vibrates lives. Jone, at times, isn't so much a film, which it obviously is, as a sensation so close it could be part of the skin itself. In fact, there are films so close to the viewer's retina that, rather than simply being seen, they hurt, smell, scratch, and, if necessary, sting. Because of their clarity, their roughness, their warm temperature, their ease with which they blend in with the viewer. Jone, at times, is cinema constructed against distance; it is cinema horrified by emptiness; it is cinema within the same camera; it is cinema that refutes the asepsis of the white color on the screen. The objective is limited to being there, to not interfering with anything. Always close, always inside, always vibrating.

Jone is, at times, sensual, feverish cinema intent on exploring the very skin of both the film and those who inhabit it. It tells the story of a duel (or several) and a discovery through the eyes of its protagonist (Olaia Aguayo). After losing her mother, Jone now contemplates the slow deterioration of her father, who suffers from Parkinson's disease. Everything unfolds in one week, the week of Bilbao's main festival, and there, in the bonfire of the celebration, sorrows, doubts, and fevers burn. And so on, until the discovery of something new that could very well pass for what is commonly called love. In truth, it is simply something, no matter what, that vibrates. The idea is to follow the passage of the everyday, the common, the accidental, the superfluous, that which never even deserved a film. And from there, from the back of almost everything, to construct a strange poetics without verse, a sort of heroic portrait of the supposedly banal. Sara Fantova demonstrates her expertise in the perfect combination of contrasts, in the earthy exposition of a cinema that is profoundly existential and exaggeratedly alive. A debut so conscious of being a debut that it offers everything and consumes everything. Vibrant.

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Director : Sara Fantova. Performers : Olaia Aguayo, Josean Bengoetxea, Ainhoa ​​Artetxe, Elorri Arrizabalaga. Duration : 80 minutes. Nationality : Spain.