‘Sisa’ and the sad fruit of empire

It is La Koronel and her gaze that remind us how cinema can be a force of nature, not that a simple movie can change the world, but because we can never walk into a movie house the same way again when they’ve all turned into multiplexes. Funny that it takes a madwoman, or one pretending to be mad, to tell the invader to better mind his own business, or else there will be hell to pay.