The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presented today in Venice in the official selection but out of competition, the first two chapters of his miniseries (will be in Argentina on HBO in 2017) “The Young Pope”, in which Jude Law composes a by eccentric Sumo American Pontiff, reaching the highest office of the Roman curia as part of a strategy of power, but with their personal ways promises to generate more of a stir moments.
the Young Pope
from a caustic moments , funny, an excellent narrative level and an admirable aesthetic conception, this first foray Sorrentino on TV with a modern pope in their customs but conservative in his ideas, investigates certain interstices of the cardinal bureaucracy plays with the “humanity” of Pope and “saved” perhaps by the opposition that lends itself to its enemies, as still being rightwing this Pius XIII (Pius XII was a reactionary pope, before the Second Vatican Council which renewed the Catholic Church) is honest, something not you can easily tell their opponents bureaucrats.
“That’s not my problem, in any case it is a problem of the Vatican,” he said in the talk with the Sorrentino press when asked about what response expected from the Roman curia before a minisierie that, at times, it is irreverent.
In this sense, the miniseries opens with a remarkable scene and where the new pope is directed first to the crowd of frenzied devotees gathered in St. Peter’s Square who first heard his words and that goes with the tone a populist politician and speaking in favor of abortion, gay marriage and free sex. It is (it is known immediately after) a dream or, in the case of Pius XIII, a previous nightmare to its debut.
“More than anything else, the miniseries proposes a curious look, if want of a provocative moments, but is made with a prudent and honest distance, “said Sorrentino, whose debut was awarded in Bafici and who won an Oscar with the great” the Great Beauty “.
Regarding the decision to write for television, Sorrentino said it is difficult but exciting. “When you have both development time and I actually thought this miniseries as a long film 10 hours divided into chapters, you have the possibility of integrating the characters and their different points of view with a depth that do not always pay movies “.
the young Pope is a very tight and effective Jude Law, who leads an international cast that also has to Diane Keaton, as sister Mary who does come from an orphanage to be his counselor the Vatican. Silvio Orlando as a dark cardinal who weaves and unravels the power of the curia, and Spanish Javier Camara ( “Truman”), among others
“for me it was the chance to work a rich character in contradictions, was ready to address it because the script was very exciting and close attention to detail and because, as I always asked Paolo, I always had clear that in addition to a public figure the Pope is a man, and this I think it is one of the veins that highlights the series. “
Directed and written by Sorrentino,” the Pope Young “, 10 chapters long, is a European-American co-production and expecting their first premiere next October in Italy.
La Grande Bellezza
Another film beliefs, Papas and faith was the Chilean “the Christ blind”, the first opera trasandino filmmaker Christopher Murray who is competing for the Lion Gold and tells the wandering barefoot in a sort of holy man, young feel enlightened, healthy with the laying on of hands, preaches and runs an arid desert living with people on the margins and live in squalid huts.
Filmed with non-professional actors in a film that appears to have been in itself a journey without many narratives guides and was arming in the evolution of the stories that compose it, “the Christ blind” is a sensitive but no new film , which resonate reminiscences of “the war of the end of the world” by Mario Vargas Llosa, but in opposite directions, as this christ does not drag crowds and proposes fights but simply find people and converses or living with them.
Frantz
Second shift films in official competition was to “Frantz,” the new film by French Francois Ozon, a melodrama in black and white that serves all the main lines of gender, could have been a script of an old radio drama and is actually an adaptation of a play by Maurice Rostand, and a remake of the film “Broken Lullaby” (known in Castilian as “Remorse” but Argentine premiere), Ernest Lubitsch.
the setting is a small German town that comes a former French soldier after World War I to know (and apologize) to the parents and girlfriend of a German fighter, Frantz title, which killed a trench.
things do not escape the drama, attend a series of tangles and concealments and then take some romantic key.
Tomorrow will be the day of the beginning of the “Argentine rush” in Venice, opens a world premiere and gala “The illustrious citizen” of Gstón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, competing for the Golden Lion and today occupies the entire cover of the prestigious international magazine “Variety”, published daily during the course of the festival.
Almost at the same time is passed for the first time “Inseparable” by Marcos Carnevale, in the Cinema Nel Giardino section and also debuts “a sister”, the debut of Verena Kuri and Sofia Brokenshire under the production program and professionalization of the Mostra, Biennale College; these films that will be watching Sunday and Monday are completed with the release on Tuesday of Kekszakallu, Gaston third film Solnicki reaching the prestigious Orizonti section.
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