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RTÉ News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Chloë Sevigny's Magic Farm is a vivid but slightly underbaked comedy
Magic Farm, Argentine-Spanish filmmaker Amalia Ulman's second feature after 2021's El Planeta, is a vivid, wacky, convincingly performed but slightly underbaked culture-clash comedy. A team of obnoxious, self-absorbed American filmmakers, who make attention-grabbing, off-kilter online videos, head off to a rural town in Argentina to interview a bunny ear-wearing musician who has gone viral. The only thing is, due to poor communication and lazy research, they've landed in the wrong South American country. Desperate to save their reputations and make good on the considerable expense of hustling this quintet of content creators to such a remote location, they set about grilling the locals about potential stories to shoot, all the while ignorantly ignoring the enormous health crisis story under their noses. The team is headed up by jaded presenter Edna (Chloë Sevigny) and her slimy producer-husband Dave (Simon Rex), who soon hurriedly returns to New York to deal with an icky legal issue. Edna is left to pick up the pieces alongside her three young crew members - the inept, whiny producer Jeff (Alex Wolff), impressively coiffed and sweet sound guy Justin (Joe Apollonio) and steadfast cameraperson Elena, played by Ulman herself, who is both the only Spanish-speaking member of the group and the only one who seems to have her head on her shoulders. They team up with the kindly hostel manager (Guillermo Jacubowicz), connected local woman Popa (Valeria Lois) and her beautiful, chronically online adult daughter Manchi (Camila del Campo) to try and concoct a story. While Magic Farm is breezily watchable, aided by the pleasingly lurid cinematography, perfectly pitched performances and occasional zingy one-liners, there's a sense that we never get to scratch the surface of any of the characters. In a somewhat underwritten role, Sevigny brings a stoic resignedness to Edna, Wolff is transformed as a hot-mess ladies man and Apollonio and Jacubowicz bring a tenderness to their sweet and unexpected bond. Some genuine moments poke through the absurdist, deadpan humour, and the intermittent gimmicky camerawork gives the proceedings an enjoyably trippy feel, there's a sense Magic Farm never quite fulfills its considerable potential.
Al Bawaba
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Georgina Rodríguez belly during Elie Saab show sparks pregnancy rumors
ALBAWABA - Georgina Rodríguez, the Argentine-Spanish model, sparked new pregnancy rumors during her visit to Paris Fashion Week to attend the fashion show of the international Lebanese designer Elie Saab. "Is Georgina Rodríguez pregnant?" the question surrounded social media after the Spanish model appeared in Paris wearing white pants and a white fur coat ahead of Elie Saab's fall 2025 fashion show. Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo and Rodríguez have been together since 2016. The couple met at the Gucci fashion store in Madrid during CR7's recording-break spell with La Liga giants Real and they fell in love quickly. La Semana de la Moda de París es el escenario donde convergen la sofisticación, la creatividad y la reinvención de la elegancia. Georgina Rodríguez acaparó todas las miradas al asistir al desfile Otoño-Invierno 2025 de Elie Saab, luciendo un atuendo que evocaba la elegancia. March 10, 2025 It is worth noting that Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez are raising five children, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr., 13, twins Eva Maria and Mateo Ronaldo, 7, Alana Martina, 6, as well as Bella, 2. Is Georgina Rodríguez pregnant? Georgina appeared as if she was trying to hide her pregnancy belly, which was visible under the coat, which made the audience wonder about the possibility of her being pregnant with her seventh child with her lover, football star Cristiano Ronaldo. No official statement has been made by Georgina Rodríguez or the football player Ronaldo, who currently plays with the Saudi team Al-Nassr. Georgina Rodríguez, the Argentine-Spanish model. (Instagram)
Al Bawaba
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Georgina Rodríguez joins ad for Egyptian real estate company
ALBAWABA - Argentine-Spanish Georgina Rodríguez is more than just a model, she recently was seen in an advertisement for a real estate company in Egypt. Rodriguez starred in a new campaign for real estate developer Horizon Egypt Development, promoting the "Saada" project in New Cairo. She was featured in the ad along with Lebanese dance group "The Mayyas". Georgina Rodríguez ad for Egyptian real estate company: In the ad, Georgina is seen in a luxurious location in the middle of the desert, where guests gather under golden domes amidst a candlelit atmosphere. She appears wearing a sparkling gold dress as she walks among the audience before stopping to watch a dance performance by The Mayyas band, who put on a masterful performance in black and gold outfits to the sounds of orchestral music. After that, Georgina receives a message from a waiter, reads it, and then makes a phone call in Spanish saying, "Pack my bags, she arrived before me." She then gets into a luxury car, and when the driver asks her where she's going, she replies, "Always Saada." Who are The Mayyas? The Mayyas are a Lebanese all-female alternative precision dance group that consists of 36 dancers, and their routines are choreographed by Nadim Cherfan. The group's name means "the proud walk of a lioness" in Arabic. In 2019, the Mayyas reached the semifinals of "Britain's Got Talent: The Champions". They also won first place in Arabs Got Talent. The Mayyas won season 17 of America's Got Talent in 2022.
Al Bawaba
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
What did Cristiano Ronaldo gift Georgina on her birthday?
Published January 29th, 2025 - 10:03 GMT ALBAWABA - Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated his girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez's birthday who recently turned 31. Georgina Rodríguez received warm birthday wishes on Jan. 27 as she was celebrating her special occasion with her family. But what did she receive from the famous player who is now playing for the Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr? What did Cristiano Ronaldo gift Georgina Rodríguez on her birthday? Social media users circulated the photo shared by the Argentine-Spanish model Rodríguez showing a huge bouquet of flowers gifted by the famous footballer. What Did Georgina Rodríguez do? Several accounts on social media reposted a video shared by Georgina Rodríguez where she appeared opening a gift box to find an over $266,000 Hermès bag that she bought for herself. Many said that this move was deliberately done after she only received flowers from the Portuguese football player. Georgina Rodríguez. (Instagram/ Georgina Rodríguez) © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
The Guardian
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Magic Farm review – Chloë Sevigny can't lift flat comedy of inept Americans abroad
A fading television host, a shady producer and three bratty junior crew members walk into a hostel in rural Argentina. The setup – five self-involved New Yorkers in a sleepy, modest, provincial town to film 'a whole new series on subcultures around the world' – practically begs for a punchline, or at least some fizzy, kinetic chaos. Magic Farm, Argentine-Spanish film-maker Amalia Ulman's second feature (after 2021's El Planeta), certainly tries to stir the pot, throwing its characters together into a hodgepodge of strange and lightly surreal situations. But for all its digressive meetups and self-assured one-liners – 'maybe you should stop taking so much ketamine,' etc – it can't land the joke. That's partly because what should be comic ineptitude generally comes off as contrived, or playing on overused (though not inaccurate) tropes of self-absorbed, callous Americans. The crew, led by the frazzled and insecure Edna (Chloë Sevigny, able to conjure a few sparks out of a slight role) and her producer-husband (Simon Rex), arrive at the under-prepared hostel on a wave of entitlement and dramatic exhaustion, to find a contact for a project about a bizarre, bunny ear-wearing musician. (I would generously describe their TV show as a send-up of Vice News). They find neither, because thanks to the incompetence (and bad Spanish) of producer Jeff (Alex Wolff, unfortunately convincing as an overwritten whiny fuckboy), they're in the wrong country. What's a flailing crew to do? The producer-husband departs to deal with a secret sexual harassment scandal. Edna mopes about, mostly to allow for the indelible image of Sevigny wearing Margiela shoes in the completely wrong environment. And the junior staff – Jeff, Justin (Joe Apollonio) and the Spanish-speaking Elena (Ulman) – decide to fabricate a trend for a contrived documentary, enlisting locals to play devotees of a made-up religious cult. The increasingly ridiculous production process should be funny – uncanny situations for a cursed project, you can imagine – but instead feel flat, deflated by the bald and, frankly, boring reveals of the Americans' messy personal lives and a persistent hint of smugness. Ulman's roving focus does, at least, allow for several of the bemused locals – the kind-hearted and befuddled hostel manager (Guillermo Jacubowicz), accidental fixer Popa (Valeria Lois) and her Rapunzel-esque, very online adult daughter (Camila del Campo) – moments to charm with by far the most natural dialogue and limber, offhand humor. Del Campo, a model, particularly shines as a lustful, criminally bored foil to the hapless film crew, at once curious about and skeptical of their intentions. This all unfolds amid an impending health crisis, at least according to the logline, though you would barely know it – said crisis is barely mentioned, unreflected in the film's generally upbeat, slightly absurd tone and irrelevant to the hijinks and hookups that feel overlong even at 93 minutes. It's one of several odd combinations that are more awkward than provocatively jarring – a mix of too-light understatement and overdoing it that fizzles into limp farce. Still, there is visual pep to the meandering (with a jaunty score by Burke Battelle). Ulman's openness to the mundane but memorable images of this small world – its overstuffed shops and dirt roads, its farm animals and bespoke churches – make for a film that's never boring to look at, even as the characters aimlessly amble about. (Though overuse of the fisheye lens and GoPro-style cameras attached to many a cute stray dog aims for an edgy, off-kilter sensibility the writing never achieves.) At best, Ulman and cinematographer Carlos Rigo Bellver capture the open-hearted gameness of this unnamed town, a place that's believably easygoing and a little strange. Some place you could dismiss, but eventually settle in, even come to love. Magic Farm's young Americans leave with unconvincing sentimentality and unearned tears – most of this concept works better on paper than in practice – as well as a few moments where the seemingly laidback direction finds a brief, hypnotizing groove. There's bits of misplaced humor, a firm sense of place and promising performances, but frustratingly little magic to be found here. Magic Farm is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution
