Tilda Swinton, “mute” at Venice Film Festival – The Universal

A silent Tilda Swinton is the protagonist of the “Bigger Splash” tape, the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, presented today in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Received from a few boos and applause during its projection to the press, the film also starring Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson in the roles, respectively, of the record producer Harry and his daughter Penelope.

In the history Swinton plays Marianne, a singer of rock that temporarily move vacationing with his partner Paul (Schoenaerts) on the island of Pantelleria to arriving Harry (ex Marianne) and Penelope causing a burst of nostalgia deflagrates violence.

It is a “remake” of the film “Pool” (1969) by Jacques Deray, one of the highest grossing French actor Alain Delon.

In a press conference, Swinton acknowledged that it was she who He suggested that his character does not speak, much because going through a time of mourning for the death of his mother, because I wanted to explore “our inability to communicate through words.”

For its part, responded Guadagnino diplomatically that his tape boos at the screening to the press “are part of the nature of the festival and how each person expresses what he believes.”

Asked about the elements of external reality break into history as the tragedy of the immigrants coming to Pantelleria, he said that it is a learned method of Bernardo Bertolucci, who in turn quoted Renoir, according to which “in the cinema must leave the door open to reality. “

” More than the theme, the immigrants was interested in the extent to which stressed the nature of otherness about the characters and wanted to investigate how this relates to us otherness ” he said.

Today was also presented in competition, the French film “L’Hermine” director Christian Vincent, which was met with greater success during its projection to the press.

film is starring Fabrice Luchini in the role of stern judge Racine, presiding trial for the murder of a baby and that among the jury meets a woman with whom in the past he wanted to start a sentimental story that circumstances prevented.

“History has been a pretext to talk about my country and the people of my country. Before rolling the tape he did not know the judicial system, so I visited the court and I realized that every trial is a show in which are represented all the diversities of society, “said the filmmaker to the media.

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