Unless one day it becomes known that Paul Mescal is related to some renowned director, producer or whatever (I was already disappointed with Nicolas Cage thinking that he was there for nothing more than his performances), we find ourselves before the prototypical school actor who ends up achieving glory. And given the intrusiveness in this profession, the Mescal effect continues to justify the existence of interpretation schools.
Because Paul Mescal captivates the most academic and ultimately convinces the audience. All of this without being a gallant by any means, drawing on the charisma of someone who knows what he is doing when it comes to acting. Which is what it is about from the point of view of cinema as an industrial device.
So welcome to Paul Mescal and let's venture into the discovery of his filmography. From a minority but determined beginning, a growth between series and films and the arrival in Gladiator 2 as the main actor in the film... Almost nothing!
Top 3 recommended films by Paul Mescal
Aftersun
AVAILABLE HERE:Any film that delves into parent-child relationships has a lot to lose for a viewer like me, who has Big Fish seen, reviewed and idealized. But one can never close oneself to something as juicy as that, the relationship with a father, with its necessarily different patterns from the maternal, with a different background (be careful, neither better nor worse, just different).
This time it is about Sophie and Calum, about that journey towards knowledge. Holding hands first and completely alone afterwards. Because with a father there are always pending questions, doubts and suspicions that we could have missed something else.
While Sophie reflects, she leads us towards that lost homeland of childhood with the strange shared joy but also with the melancholy of a vacation she took with her father 20 years ago. Real and imagined memories of her fill the spaces between the images of her as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she never knew.
Desconocidos
AVAILABLE HERE:I remember that movie Robin Williams between the fantastic and the melancholic in which he realized depression and its disconcerting scenarios. We start from that idea to approach a new drama with that disconcerting lucidity about the anima that ends up being a ghost according to the traditions of any civilization in the world...
Romantic drama with touches of fantasy that adapts the novel S by Japanese author Taichi Yamada. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a lonely writer who, after a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), begins an intimate and emotional relationship with him. But Adam, nostalgic for his lost childhood, decides to visit his childhood home. There, back in the distant past, he discovers that his parents, long dead, are alive and appear to be the same age as the day they died. Can Harry save Adam from the ghosts of his past?
God's creatures
AVAILABLE HERE:You know nothing is going to go well. Because everything works against you. Circumstances bathed in morals, traditions and customs, stereotypes and firm condemnations of small places. Towns and villages in Ireland or Teruel where each one carries, or hangs, (according to families or other powers conferred), sambenitos or merits.
In a rain-lashed Irish fishing village, a mother lies to protect her son. That decision has a devastating impact on her community, her family, and herself. She had no other option for her mother and she has no other option so that her son can be reunited there, in the land from which she came, before being lost in the vast world to which she may no longer be able to belong.