Cannes closes with lackluster but successful Colombian – El Colombiano

This issue will be remembered as one of the weakest in recent years for the quality of the titles in competition. Two are favorites of the press, a preference that sometimes has little or nothing to do with the jury’s decisions. My mother Nanni Moretti and Carol Todd Haynes are the films in question, followed by the market law Stéphane Brizé and Youth Paolo Sorrentino. hardly the Palme be outside of these names.

With the good news that my mother was taken to Colombia by Cineplex, say that for us is the best of the films in the competition, with a pulse Moretti director in state of full maturity. Contrary to that enthusiasm, full Carol, who has seduced me with his smug and colorful style inspired to servitude in the melodramas of Douglas Sirk of the fifties we disenchanted; will themselves, with certainty and justice, female performance prize for Cate Blanchett .

The law of the market fits the type of cinema of social concern, dominant line in the various sections of the festival, something understandable in light of the ordeal left by these long dictatorship of capitalism. Unemployment, immigration, violence in the streets, matters were in several films, including Stéphane Brizé. The film does not hesitate to point to his subject, but to the linear way we have tried. As for Sorrentino, youth is a continuation of the kind of movies he likes the director, inclined to show reality as a stage on entering and leaving beings viewed with irony and sarcasm.

Unable final note about Cannes without stress how happy it has been for the national cinema. If the Palme d’Or for short Leidi, Antioquia Simon Mesa, in 2014 had generated impact, have three films in the different sections is a success that ensures the visibility of the Colombian production in all the festivals The world of 2015. That good year closes with the triumphs of Ciro Guerra with the embrace of the serpent’s Fortnight and Augusto Cesar Acevedo as New Director in the Critics’ Week Cesar Augusto Acevedo for land and shadow, an award given to the most outstanding feature in competition for creativity and inventiveness, in the words of the contest rules. Better, impossible.