Disappointed in Venice “A Bigger Splash” with a change Tilda Swinton – El Universal (Venezuela)

The drama A Bigger Splash , the highly anticipated new collaboration between the Italian director Luca Guagadnino and actress Tilda Swinton, disappointed today from critics at the Venice Film Festival, where the first boos were heard in the competition

Guadagnino., which got so much applause with I Am Love , composed a sort of “remake” of the French La piscine (1969), Jacques Deray (with the celebrity couple Alain Delon-Romy Schneider) but moving drama crossed the Italian island of Pantelleria relations, halfway between Tunisia and Sicily.

There enclosed in a beautiful country house a singer of rock (Swinton) who can not speak because he has to rest his voice, and his partner, a young filmmaker (Schoenaerts). Its summer peace is disturbed by the visit of the former producer and former partner of the singer, a lively, absorbing and impulsive (Ralph Fiennes), who travels with his daughter (Dakota Johnson).

story needed a scenario like Pantelleria, said the director of this beautiful island and hard volcanic landscapes.

The idea that the singer was moving were the Swinton herself, who, according explained today, was in a phase where I wanted away from work and suggested the director do not speak.

Guadagnino became convinced that reinforce the idea that drama of characters to burst wanted to stage.

So, the visit of Fiennes, whose performance has been highly praised, it destroys the stability rocker and his young partner have created. Fiennes tries to win back his love of the past, while his daughter, a teenager trying on herself, tries to seduce the documentary.

Absorbed in their tensions and desos, the only hint of actually living the protagonists are immigrants who cross the island. “There should call the immigrants are refugees from war,” said Swinton on the daily reality that is in Pantelleria, where immigrants arrive also risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in rickety boats.

A Bigger Splash Guadagnino a title borrowed from a work by David Hockney, is the second of four Italian films in competition at Venice, where today also showed French L’Hermine starring a judge (Fabrice Luchini) relentless and solitary, whose life takes a turn after seeing into his court the woman he fell in love secretly for years.

The Danish Sidse Babett Knudsen, who fans of TV series known to embody a prime minister in Borgen , gives life to the woman who changes the life of the judge in this little story, which has been well received, even it lacks the strength of other productions in competition.

French director Christian Vincent travels in a cinema that seeks to approach reality and making the most of these small stories of ordinary people in your footage it becomes extraordinary, as it did with Haute cuisine on the cook of French president who had both public success.