The director presented Paterson , a tragicomedy that is among the best of his films; there were cheers for Loving , a drama about a persecuted interracial marriage in Virginia 50s
CANNES.- The love of the French for the American cinema is very long standing. If you were critics of Cahiers du Cinéma who claimed and raised to the category of authors to certain directors who worked to pay for Hollywood studios, no wonder that celebratory tradition is maintained until today at the Cannes Film Festival. Thus, in the last hours had its world premiere in different areas of the four expected US official selection titles, two of them in competition for the Palme d’Or: Paterson, Jim Jarmusch and Loving, Jeff Nichols. In addition, they exhibited Hell or High Water, modern western class B with Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster; and a comedy very well received as two dangerous types, with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.
Jarmusch featured Adam Driver (the series Girls and Kylo Ren Star Wars ) and the Iranian Golshifteh Farahani for a tragicomedy that ranks among the best in the filmography of director of the way of the samurai, broken Flowers and only lovers survive. Driver-faithful to his surname- is a driver of urban buses. It is called Paterson, like the film and that the working area of New Jersey where the story. In addition, he is an amateur but tireless poet, has a girlfriend who is pure goodness, a bulldog who hates him and a pathetic friends at the bar he frequents every night.
Narrated during the span of a week, the film follows the daily experiences of Paterson: getting up early, go to the terminal, handling several hours, reconnect with your girl, take the dog for a walk and end the day drinking at the bar. Jarmusch is gold in the routine of this common man is a poetic film unintentionally; without resorting to gimmicky humorous gag; sensitive without low blows; and a zen tone (and a haiku) that refers more to the Japanese than American idiosyncrasy. Optimistic, innocent, relaxed and a strange beauty, Paterson was another gem of an official competition this year not to surprise.
Jarmusch, who since 1984 presented Strangers in Paradise most of his films premiered in Cannes- said “go counter to this film that explains everything, it is the public who must discover things.” Asked about his view of the state of affairs, said: “I do not think watching movies in rooms is old fashioned, I like to go and enjoy the darkness and collective act, for me it is important to preserve the classics, keep the memory and review the history of cinema. Yes, it might be a dinosaur. “
The other film that was presented today in the main section was Loving , Jeff Nichols, and many analyst and to the point as a favorite for the Oscars. The director of Shotgun Stories, Tormented, Mud and Midnight Special reconstructs the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), an interracial couple who married and had three children in the conservative and repressive Virginia in the late 1950s Sentenced to prison and then to leave the state if not annulling the marriage, they continued to struggle (with the help of several organizations linked to the movement for civil rights) and his case reached the Supreme Court. Beyond that it can be read as a politically correct something opportunist bet, and inevitably didactic and instructive, Nichols maintains here much of the psychological, visual and narrative intensity of their previous work. . A film that certainly will be talking here until the season awards early next year
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