#ggb filmography gifs

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Diarios de motocicleta (2004, dir. Walter Salles)

(these gifs also feature Mía Maestro, Rosa Curihuentro and Rodrigo de la Serna)

#gael garcía bernal #diarios de motocicleta #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #the motorcycle diaries #instead of rambling in the tags i shall spam you with loosely-related posts

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in The Science of Sleep (2006, dir. Michel Gondry)

(these gifs also feature Charlotte Gainsbourg and Aurélia Petit's shoulder)

#gael garcía bernal #the science of sleep #ggb filmography gifs #i love this film #that is it i have no further notes #gael garcia bernal

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Neruda (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)

#gael garcía bernal #neruda #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #neruda 2016 #what is there to say about neruda that can be expressed in tag form? #it's intelligent and beautiful and fantastical and creative #and it asks questions about fiction and poetry and history and politics and life #(also a lot of it's funny because pablo larraín) #and i really wanted more than eight gifs #i started off with FORTY and had to whittle them down #even as i type this i'm thinking 'i really should have included one with mercedes morán' but i am not messing with them any more

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Si tu voyais son cœur (2017, dir. Joan Chemla)

(These gifs also feature Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Marine Vacth)

#gael garcía bernal #si tu voyais son cœur #ggb filmography gifs #i think this is outstandingly good #beautiful and heartbreaking #and i don't understand why it didn't get more attention #(i do wish chemla didn't lose her nerve and put in some unnecessary voiceover though) #it needs careful watching as it cuts seamlessly between unfolding events / memories / flashbacks / intrusive thoughts / fantasy #but i didn't find it at all confusing (some critics disagreed but they were Wrong) #gael garcia bernal #si tu voyais son coeur

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Ema (2019, dir. Pablo Larraín)

(these gifs also feature Mariana Di Girólamo and Cristián Suárez)

#gael garcía bernal #ema #ggb filmography gifs #the first half hour of this is two people in terrible pain lashing out at each other #and then... it doesn't stop being that but it also goes off in another direction #objectively it's completely implausible but it pulls you along #and the cinematography is gorgeous #in case it's all getting emotionally too much gael's character has a solid two-minute rant about reggaeton #gael garcia bernal #ema 2019

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Babel (2006, dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)

#gael garcía bernal #babel #ggb filmography gifs #this one is surprisingly difficult to gif #because almost the only place we get any steady shots of giffable length of gael is in the border crossing scene #he's IN a lot of the mexico scenes but generally in short choppy shots or with the camera whirling around #it's almost as if iñárritu was prioritising the cinematography and the audience rather than future gif makers #the nerve of it #gael garcia bernal #babel 2006

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Museo (2018, dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios)

(These gifs also feature Leonardo Ortizgris and Alfredo Castro)

#gael garcía bernal #museo 2018 #ggb filmography gifs #by this point alfredo castro had already played gael's boss and his president so playing his father was the next logical step #gael's character is such an asshole #but he's not entirely wrong about everything #but he's SUCH an asshole #but you can kind of see how he got that way #gael garcia bernal #i had to watch this one specifically to gif it as i'd been saving it for christmas #museo is a christmas film

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in The Kindergarten Teacher (2018, dir. Sara Colangelo)

(these gifs also feature Maggie Gyllenhaal)

#gael garcía bernal #the kindergarten teacher #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #gael is only in five scenes of this #so we get to watch someone else ruin their life for a change #which is refreshing as this filmography has hit a fairly bleak patch recently #and indeed your normal 'gael's character screws up his life' service will resume on monday #albeit with less Sad Gael than normal in the gifs

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Rudo y Cursi (2008, dir. Carlos Cuarón)

(these gifs also feature Diego Luna and Jessica Mas)

#gael garcía bernal #rudo y cursi #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #in the second half of 2007 gael filmed this then immediately went to canada to shoot blindness #(per Meirelles' film diaries he arrived three weeks after the rest of the principal cast) #then started principal photography on mammoth #so i assume that the final coda scene here was a later pickup shot after he'd already got his buzzcut for mammoth #the idea that he was playing tato one week and the king of ward 3 the next is itself... well. a contrast. #almost like he's a professional actor or something

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in A Little Bit of Heaven (2011, dir. Nicole Kassell)

(these gifs also feature Kate Hudson)

#gael garcía bernal #a little bit of heaven #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #this is not a good movie #in fact it's hard to imagine how it ever got made #there's so much wrong with the whole premise #the entire first half of the movie there is zero chemistry between the leads #although it kind of picks up later #because i don't think it's scientifically possible for someone to have zero chemistry with gael for a WHOLE movie #i had to watch it so i could gif it #but you can still avoid my fate #mind you it does have the naked yo-yoing scene

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Blindness (2008, dir. Fernando Meirelles)

(these gifs also feature Alice Braga, Maury Chaykin, Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore)

#gael garcía bernal #blindness 2008 #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #i think this is another film that doesn't quite pull off the scope of its considerable ambitions #but gael's king of ward 3 is one of the characters who manages to escape the confines of his designated archetype #he has a sort of gleeful amorality that's fascinating to watch even as he does terrible things #and boy does he do some terrible things

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in No (2012, dir. Pablo Larraín)

(these gifs also feature at least some parts of Luis Gnecco, Antonia Zegers, and Pascal Montero)

#gael garcía bernal #ggb filmography gifs #no 2012 #gael garcia bernal #every garment he wears in this is the most 80s thing ever #and it's glorious #costume designer francisca román take a bow #it's also just a really great film #and i love it unreservedly

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Desierto (2015, dir. Jonás Cuarón)

(these gifs also feature Alondra Hidalgo)

#gael garcía bernal #desierto #ggb filmography gifs #desierto 2015 #gael garcia bernal #this is ultimately a pretty standard thriller of the being-chased-by-an-inexorable-killer type #where the cast is picked off one by one until only the most conventionally physically attractive remain #this is good news for gael's character #on account of being played by gael #i think this one is elevated by the setting both in terms of beauty (it is stunning) and by making effective plot use of it #that apparently meant they were shooting two hours' drive away from the nearest towns with no cellphone reception etc. #which may be why we don't see more films set here #also elevated by the performances which are uniformly good #also elevated by the themes (jeffrey dean morgan's antagonist is targeting migrants crossing the border) #so we're back in the territory explored in documentaries like who is dayani cristal but this time as fictional thriller #this film came out as the trump wall discourse was hotting up and that was naturally something that got talked about in interviews #clever inclusion of antagonist's dog which effectively constrains what the characters could do to get out of the situation #so unlike in many films of this type there isn't a screamingly obvious course of action that they should have taken but unaccountably don't #still it remains a genre film sticking broadly to the conventions of that genre so the plot isn't going to astonish you #i've still avoided giffing the most spoilery moments though #tbh i suspect gael's character is still screwed at the end but then i think that's also the point (see: themes)

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in El Ardor (2014, dir. Pablo Fendrik)

(these gifs also feature Alice Braga)

#gael garcía bernal #el ardor #gael garcia bernal #ggb filmography gifs #this film is trying to do something interesting #and i don't think it really works #but that's better than not trying in the first place #it's a modern western but set in latin america #and brings in elements of environmentalism and some mystical stuff #but where it aims for ambiguity it tends to land on inconsistency instead #e.g. is gael's character a force of nature or Just Some Guy? #also there's a jaguar that may or may not be magical in some way #gael's character is not a fan of shirts in this film #seriously he borrows two separate shirts from alice braga's family #and throws them both away #there's a weird sex scene #(to clarify: the scene is weird not the sex) #which sort of feels like the film was contractually obliged to have one but no one's heart was really in it #the burning

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in The Loneliest Planet (2011, dir. Julia Loktev)

(these gifs also feature Hani Furstenberg and Bidzina Gujabidze)

#gael garcía bernal #the loneliest planet #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #for once gael is not the prettiest thing in the film #he is overshadowed by the beauty of the caucasus mountains #i have not giffed The Incident #even though it would make a great gif #because in all the interviews for the film everyone was careful not to talk about it directly #that said #in interviews julia loktev said that the audience was very much split #into 'this is terrible and absolutely the end of the relationship' #and 'in the grand scheme of things it's no big deal and they'll move past it' #and tbh i fall into the second camp #everyone has moments when they don't behave how they would like to behave #as a bonus if you watch this you get gael giving you lessons in conjugating spanish verbs #also gael can walk on his hands because of course he can

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in The King (2005, dir. James Marsh)

(these gifs also feature Pell James)

#gael garcía bernal #the king #ggb filmography gifs #southern gothic meets greek tragedy #not for fans of happy endings #(that's technically a spoiler but come on i mean) #gael garcia bernal #the king 2005 #for obvious reasons there were no films in 2020 so we'll be straight on to 2004 on monday now we've finished 2005 #notice i say 'we' like you're somehow complicit in this ridiculous project