On paper, the 69th edition of the Cannes Festival looks promising. Hollywood stars will meet the expectations of the press and the demands of the industry, but this time it appears that the films have been the priority.
If the films selected in international competition the actors appear Javier Bardem, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, is a coincidence of casting with signing and film movies. What seems to have prevailed is that the directors of these films are Olivier Assayas ( Personal Shopper ), Bruno Dumont ( Ma Loute ), Paul Verhoeven ( Elle ), Sean Penn ( The Last Face ), Pedro Almodóvar ( Juliet ) among others. Noblesse oblige. The policy of the authors is a rule, a welcome sign that helps to believe that the clunkers not phagocytose competition, festival center
Policy authors
the neophyte, and justly you wonder what is the policy of the authors. Some 66 years ago, almost at the same time as the festival began to exist, critics (who later became film directors) of Cahiers du Cinema , the legendary film magazine still published in France, propagated the world a firm theory, which had previously been an intuition of some, which stated that behind every film there is an author who displays his look at all the elements of a film.
framings, the movements of the actors, costumes, games of light and shadow, how to deal with the characters, the overall sound of the film is unfailingly arranged in a vision. Such foresight is not only about cinema. The film is a way of seeing the world and understanding of the world replicated in a way to see the film. The staging is the subject of the directors, who know have the plans.
The artistic director of Cannes, Thierry Fremaux, seems to have ignored this time the sirens clamoring for the glitter and jewelry. In programming there are names that have weight. In addition to those named, Jim Jarmusch, for example, will present Paterson (and also, though out of competition, Gimme Danger , on the history of the band The Stooges), a film in his description more reminiscent of his first stripped and empty of established actors films. What is advertised as an unexpected justification of sober everyday life of ordinary men from the life of a bus driver refers to minimalist Jarmusch of the 1990s.
There are two movies that start as favorite cinefilia hardest. One is Sieranevada Cristi Puiu. Director The dark night of Mr. Lazarescu is back with a film that promises some scandal and a lot of commotion. The story of a doctor is defined by two events, one private and one public. Father’s death and the attack on the publisher Charlie Hebdo
The other film that He promises a lot is the new film from director unknown lake . Alain Guiraudie, promoted to the official competition, seems to get away from the world of gay nudists and choose as the center of his film contingencies that must cross a film director, once his wife’s leave him and his son.
Cannes begins in a few hours. Woody Allen returns to open the event with Cafe Society , a comedy set in New York during the 1930s, in which a young man played by Jesse Eisenberg falls for a girl committed. Everything indicates that Allen again choose a light tone. His latest films are better when not insist on philosophical explanations about the meaning of the world. Perhaps this is one of the good.
Latin Minority
In forecasts of Cannes 2016, Zama , Lucrecia Martel, and The wild region Amat Escalante, numbers were placed for this edition. Neither the director nor the extraordinary Argentina consecrated Mexican director came to the festival with his films. The reasons for their absences are dissimilar, but pronounced further the underrepresentation of cinema on the continent.
In the official competition, the Brazilian Kleber Mendonça Filho debuts Aquarius , a film passing through the confrontation of a widow of 65 years dedicated to criticism of music, with a company that threatens the fate of their home. The other Latin American film in the official selection is Argentina The long night of Fernando Sanctis Andrea Testa and Francisco Marquez, which won the Bafici and can give fight in the second competition in importance in Cannes , Un Certain Regard.Además, this film that places its history in 1977 and is primarily a drama of consciousness (or put into play in deciding their own safety intervene on the fate of militants that will be erased by the military), competes by the House of Gold, cross prize for all debutantes movies. ¿Will repeat the fate of Las acacias in 2011?
The other two Latin American films are Neruda Pablo Larrain, and Poetry endless , Alejandro Jodorowsky. Chilean Both films are part of the program of the Fortnight, the section often promote radical filmmakers and born to play the mediocrity of the official selection.
The presence of Alejandro Jodorowsky instead of the Argentine director Raul Perrone (to cite a real case of radicalized film) seems to be just a snobbish gesture without risk. Anyway, will not miss the acolytes of the Chilean guru and his usual aesthetic apologists.
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