The first applause of the 72nd edition of the festival Venice Film went today to the Mexican film ‘A thousand-headed monster’ by Rodrigo Pla, while overproduction ‘Everest’, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur, was received coolly despite to be based on real events.
The tape Pla opened the competition section ‘Orizzonti’, the second largest of the “Mostra” and was screened Wednesday morning to criticism and media that positively welcomed.
Based on the novel by Laura Santaullo, relates the case of a woman exasperated by the treatment of medical negligence insurance company, forcing it to resort to desperate solutions wasteful access to therapies that need her husband, ill with cancer.
In just 75 minutes the director constructs a story in which the victim, Sonia Bonet (played by Jana Raluy) embarks on a fight in dragging his son and herself in a dizzying spiral of violence.
The film is co-produced FIDECINE and Rio Black Productions and its other protagonists Sebastian Aguirre Boeda, Emilio Echevarría and Daniel Gimenez Cacho, among others.
This is the fourth feature Pla, who received the Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award in 2007 for Best Opera Prima, ‘The Zone’.
” In ‘A thousand-headed monster’ try to have situations that may occur to ordinary people, “said the director at a press conference.
He explained that seek to respect the different views of the protagonists and their ethical dilemmas while maintaining high public attention.
On Wednesday morning was also screened in 3D and critical press blockbuster “Everest”, out of competition, which failed to arouse enthusiasm.
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and a cast of Hollywood stars including Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Josh Brolin, the film tells a true story that occurred in May 1996, when tragedy He reached three delegations who took to the conquest of Everest.
In a press conference Kormákur said sought in Kathmandu real places where shooting history and even came close to Everest base camp.
But confirmed that after filming moved to the mountains of the Dolomites, in Italy, where he made shots at 30 degrees below zero with the intention of bringing the viewer as close as possible to reality.
Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal said he felt a “huge” responsibility to tell the screen before actually occurred situation and confirmed that he met with the sons of his character, Scott Fisher, one of the crash victims May 1996.
In another press conference the president of the jury of the ‘Venezia 72′ (the main Sample) section, the Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón said that the important thing is to see the tapes of the festival a spirit of “innocence”.
“Coming to a festival expecting something from the movies is not healthy, but what is clear is that there is great diversity of ideas, forms and ways of making films, but the important thing is to see films with innocence, “Cuarón, whose film ‘Gravity’, which gave him the Oscar, opened two years ago Mostra said.
The festival director Alberto Barbera said that the productions presented at the oldest film festival in Europe reflected the desire to represent today, which is the engine that has inspired filmmakers.
“The filmmakers feel the need to face reality, with historical facts and contemporary themes. This is not a crisis of creativity or imagination, but the need to bring out a world that seems out of control, “he said.
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