Miles Davis, Anne Frank, Emily Dickinson: Harvesting “biopics” at the Berlinale – Andina

 
 
 
 
         

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Berlin, feb. 18.
 The tragic fate of Anne Frank, the life of jazz musician Miles Davis, the American poet Emily Dickinson or editor Max Perkins: at the Berlinale, the cinema confirmed that the biographical trend is downwind.
 

– “Miles Ahead”, presented out of competition, brings a portrait of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis , who died in 1991. The film comes after many other biographical films about musicians, including saxophonist Charlie Parker ( “Bird”) and trumpeter Chet Baker ( “Born to be Blue”), presented at the Toronto Film festival.

made by actor Don Cheadle ( “Hotel Rwanda”, “House of Lies “), who plays himself to Miles Davis, ” Miles Ahead “says” inspired by facts of life “jazz star , without being a reconstruction to the letter .

It focuses on a particular point in his career. the film begins in 1979, when after leaving the scene for health reasons in the mid-70s, Miles Davis it is preparing to star in his back.

Only at home, upset by drug use, is visited by a reporter from Rolling Stone, played by Ewan McGregor, who wants to write an article on his return to the stage.

the two men end up embarking on a career in search of a recording stolen from Miles Davis, while the great trumpeter, haunted by the failure of her marriage to the dancer Frances Taylor, prepares its new artistic beginning.

“I have been immersed in the music of Miles Davis from 10 years,” said Don Cheadle, who says she wanted to show “their enormous creativity and dynamism” through a movie, “endowed with energy gross “” free and impressionistic “, inhabited by the music of Miles Davis.

back and forth between past and present, fiction shows a Miles Davis once the impulsive, excessive, “completely changing” and very creative “always composing in his mind,” “innovative and prolific,” said Don Cheadle, who got into the skin and the voice of a great musician and studied trumpet to play the role.

– “Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank” ( “the diary of Anne Frank”) by Hans Steinbichler, is the first German film dedicated to the tragic fate of the Jewish teenager Anne Frank, whose diary recounts his life in hiding from 1942 and 1944, which after the war became famous around the world.

Read van Acken She plays Anne Frank, who tells his story and that of his family, Germans escape Netherlands after the rise to power of the Nazis in Germany.

the Anne Frank opened its files to the film that could well access to 100,000 documents (texts, objects and photographs) team.

– “a quiet passion” (a quiet passion), the British director Terence Davies, tells the story of the nineteenth-century American writer Emily Dickinson, who lived isolated and he published little during his lifetime, before being considered after his death as a literary figure in the foreground.

the embodies the American actress Cynthia Nixon, famous for her role as Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City”, whom he found it “intimidating” interpret “a thinker and artist so big.”

series the film corrects the image of the eccentric recluse often associated with Emily Dickinson , painting it instead as a free spirit, a demanding and spiritual woman

-. “Genius” debut of British theater director Michael Grandage, contender for the Golden Bear portrays the American publisher Max Perkins, who discovered writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe in the 20s and 30s in the United States.

British actor Colin Firth , awarded the Oscar for “the king’s speech”, plays the discreet Max Perkins.

Beside her, Jude Law plays the lush and prolific Thomas Wolfe, author of “L’Ange exiled,” he had with his publisher relationships to the passionate, creative and tumultuous time.

(FIN) AFP / MPM

 

 Published: 18/02/2016