Criticism applauded the consecration of Latin American cinema in Venice – El Universal (Venezuela)

.- Venice The consecration of Latin American film festival in Venice, which won the Golden Lion and Silver with “From Beyond” Venezuelan Lorenzo beams and “The clan “of Argentine Pablo Trapero, was applauded today by much of the film critics.

” Win the South American cinema, the protagonist of Venice “Concita De Gregori wrote in the newspaper La Repubblica.

“Beat the New World, his strength. ‘From Beyond’, the debut of a Venezuelan 40 years exceeded works of large, old established authors, sacred monsters of cinema as Sokurov, Gitai, Solimoski, Bellocchio “De Gregori wrote, citing the names of veteran authors who competed in the official selection.

“Films that speak of true facts and reality cinema is awarded, film documentaries are great mourning The reality now is wait, Venice lost memory sends us a clear message… The era is over pleasure, “he said.

The veteran Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti, the Corriera della Sera stresses that “maybe there’s a connection” between the two South American triumph with the fact the jury foreman was Alfonso Cuaron , without diminishing the quality of the winning films, AFP reported.

“They have been given awards for film buffs. They have forgotten the traditional films. With a jury especially filmmakers were awarded primarily management and forgotten part of the show,” he said. “The film ‘The Clan’ Trapero anyway is my favorite, stuck in my heart,” he admitted.

“The Venice Film Festival is confirmed as a space that defends the author over other aspects of the film. Is it a cualidadâ” Mereghetti interrogated who has covered for decades the oldest film festival of the world.

“The truth is that the world is changing and the authority of the director is being discussed,” he said

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Less enthusiastic was the comment of Franck Nouchi in the French newspaper Le Monde.

“To say that I was pleased with palmares be exaggerated. With the exception of ‘clan’, the films he loved the most about this issue are not among the winners,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, this year, though not excellent films in competition, it ended with a misunderstanding. Although we have some reservations about the Argentine film, which testifies to the extraordinary growth of Argentine cinema,” he said.

Alex Vicente del Spanish newspaper El Pais, who this year replaced its controversial veteran critic Carlos Boyero, which in recent years without hesitation despised section of films invited by Venice, the result is satisfactory.

“This outcome is not entirely unreasonable in an issue where Latin American cinema has been omnipresent, concurred to ten films in the various sections which keeper yy, Alberto Barbera, he keeps repeating that the Latin American cinema is the only thing that counts and proposes new talents with different styles things, “he wrote.

” In this category falls undoubtedly the semidesconocido Lorenzo beams, “he said.