The film “Une vie” (Life), French filmmaker Stephane Brizé and based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant, today became one of the favorites for the Golden Lion at the Film Festival in Venice .
Set in a country mansion of Normandy in the early nineteenth century, the film is starring Jeanne le Perthuis des Vauds (played by Judith Chemla), daughter of a noble marriage which owns more than 30 farms.
Returning home after receiving education in a convent, Jeanne spends his time between vegetable gardens, reading books and games, until the time to find arrives husband.
The choice lies with the Julian Visconde de Lamare, immediately accepted by the family, but who later revealed to be an unrepentant infidel, which impregnates the waitress and its lover a neighboring aristocratic.
The thread of history is the life of the protagonist, upset by the violent or natural death of their loved ones and the difficult raising a child than adult shows follow the steps of the father.
Filmed in 4/3 with narrow frames, hand-held camera follows the protagonists and a photograph that gives a touch incredibly poetic, the film uses the “flash back” to evoke the past.
“I read the novel by Maupassant in 1996 and fell in love with it. I completely identified with Jeanne. I entered adulthood with his own innocence,” Brizé said at a news conference.
The director of the film felt that the protagonist has an absolute idea man believes in nature, but “the uniqueness and beauty of his spirit are also its tragedy and conviction”.
“Life is not so good, but not as bad as they say”, says the final phrase of the film.
On the opposite of “Une vie” extreme “The bad batch” (The bad batch) places, the Iranian-American filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, the only director competing for the Golden Lion and that this time presents a kind of futuristic western, with atmospheres to the “Mad Max”.
The protagonist is a woman, played by model Suki Waterhouse, who gives life to Arlen, a girl who is abandoned in the ghetto of the defective batch, which includes waste of the society.
The place is separated by a high enclosure in the desert, where citizens’ rights are lost and no longer governs the law.
Arlen falls into the hands of a group of cannibals who will amputate an arm and a leg, but which can escape to take refuge in the community called “Comfort”, commanded by a kind of “holy man”, played by Keanu Reaves, who distributes his followers LSD.
The tape can be seen as a fable about the ruins of the “American dream,” he said at a news conference Amirpour, who also wrote the screenplay.
He noted that was inspired by the Slab City California community, made up of people a little outside of society and 90 percent of them participated in the filming.
cast is also part of an unrecognizable Jim Carrey, who plays a dumb old tramp lonely and using dollars to light the fire.
In the presentation to the press, Amirpour embarked on a controversy with those who criticized what they saw as an excessive use of violence in “The bad batch” and said the tape is “a kind of love letter to something very American”.
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