I haven't seen such a unique way of portraying the first hours as a married couple than the film "On Chesil Beach".

The film takes place in 1962 when Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) get married and they are enjoying their honeymoon in a hotel at Chesil Beach. The story presents this couple enjoying intimacy and their struggles to become the ideal husband and wife. The story then introduced flashbacks of pivotal points in their lives, which connects with certain moments during their intimate moments.

Both characters are nervous on their first night but are not just to the discovery of their sexual desires, also is their internal battles about classism and social pressure from both families.

Edward is an angry and physical belligerence person who has a mother with brain damage, Florence a girl with an unspoken past with her father who dominates her and possibly molested her. Her big escapism is play in a string quartet. Those two personalities collide reaching a breaking point.

First-time director Dominic Cooke create a powerful film, that sometimes borderline into the corny. Saoirse performance is great but seems to be less engaging as the film progresses and she is full of makeup and prosthetics. Billy Howle does a pretty good job, however, his mannerism is sometimes not believable. One shot that defines the film is the last frame because it symbolizes this couple crisis.

Dennis Villeneuve work is a complex collection of images and emotions, his movies reflect a dedicated artist trying to express how he sees the world. Trying to replicate his vision is very difficult, that's why when Hollywood made the announcement of the Sicario sequel, I was very hesitant to watch this movie.

Stefano Sollima director of the first season of the TV show Gomorrah had the responsibility of following the footsteps of Villeneuve and create a cohesive movie and also a sequel of a successful first film.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado continues the lives of Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) and Special Agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) working for the US government. After a suicide bombing in Kansas City, The united states respond to work in a mission with Graver in order to combat The Mexican Cartel who are responsible for smuggling terrorist across the border.

With that in mind, Gillick and Graver work together into instigating a war between the two big Mexican cartels, but killing a lawyer on one side and kidnapping the daughter of kingpin rival.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a nice follow up to the original film. Stefano Sollima is not trying to copy Villeneuve's work but making a variation f the story. We have two main characters from the original Sicario, but we are missing Emily Blunt, which without her makes the film darker and less emotional. Hildur Guðnadóttir composer of the score pays a great tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson work from the first film.

This movie is scary, but a real document of what's going on at the border with the US.