The Mar del Plata Film Festival (with tickets priced at $200) concludes this weekend after ten intense days of seeing the cinema of the world’s great auteurs in theatres, in an increasingly obsolete way, another glaring shortage for spectators of this corner of the universe. Between today and Sunday at least twenty unmissable titles are presented to be discovered or reviewed, as the case may be, and almost certainly to be enjoyed.
The festival will have its closing function this Saturday at the Teatro Colón with down to the boneby Luca Guadagnino. Taylor Russell E Timothee Chalamet They play two cannibalistic young lovers who travel, always on the fringes of society, in the United States of the 80s.
Some light, by Stephen Moyer, is one of the most anticipated films also for reasons that go beyond the cinematic. The director, one of the stars of True blood, fell in love on the Anna Paquin series and had twins Charlie and Poppi. Now this production of Axel Kuschevatzky’s newest adventure is the first audiovisual fruit of that love story that began in the vampire show.
Mar del Plata presents, almost as if it were déjà vu, the latest novelty by Hong Sang Soo, the great Korean master who has already screened almost a dozen films. to go up By dint of Chum Churum – the traditional soju – and poignant zooms, he resumes the amorous misadventures of, once again, a selfish filmmaker who seems to have too many points of contact with the director.
Panahi and Cronenberg
Iranian Jafar Panahi, whose films usually only hit theaters in Mar del Plata, goes into confessional mode in No bears. The director walks on both sides of the camera and crosses documentary with fiction without any confusion while filming an escape with false passports across the Turkish border, quite a challenge for a director, always in trouble with the scheme. country of his, that he is forbidden to leave Iran.
The festival dedicated to videodromeclassic of David Cronenberg about to turn thirty, a special book, which accompanies the weekend screenings. The Canadian has masterfully recounted the tribulations of a television channel director, played by James Woods, who comes across a clandestine broadcast of scenes of extreme violence.
Serge Bozon fully immerses himself in the musical genre with Don Juanwhich follows an actor who plays the stage version of Molière and is left with a fixed idea after the abandonment of Julie, who he feels he sees everywhere.
For obsessions there is the documentary Lynch/Ozwhere Alexandre O. Philippe presents a series of essays by directors John Waters, David Lowery and Karyn Kusama on the fundamental influence he had on the The Wizard of Ozby Victor Fleming, in the cinema of David Lynch.
Jean-Luc Godard, awarded with Breathless at the opening gala, also has its own documentary directed by specialist Cyril Leuthy, which before Godard only the cinema He had already dedicated films to French cultural figures such as Jean-Pierre Melville and Maurice Chevallier.
The music documentary has its obligatory stop Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller investigate the journey of that indestructible Canadian poet classic who has had an unexpected revival thanks to John Cale’s version that is part of the film Shrek.
Santiago Fillol of Córdoba mixes the universe of cinema with that of literature Slaughterhouse. The film centers on the story of a foreign director who wants to film the story of Esteban Echeverría in La Pampa in 1974. The political upheaval is shown through the present, the 1970s and the mid-19th century.
Two well-known Argentinian directors are once again making the habit of spending November at La Feliz. José Celestino Campusano offers another portrait of marginality, this time from Santa Fe, in the naked queen. The director shows the life of a city through the eyes of Victoria, in search of redemption between a miscarriage, a separation and legal problems in her father’s inheritance. Raúl Perrone becomes more cryptic and lysergic in symphony14accompanied by the presence in the cast of colleague Edgardo Cozarinsky.
Leandro Listorti is much more subtle herbaria, his third film, drawing a parallel between the deterioration of film tapes and that of plants. Director of the endless movie insists on his concern for the conservation of film material and finds unsuspected connections with the world of botany.
Film conservation and exhibition spaces is the title of one of the special activities that the festival still has in store. The table will be entrusted to Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Cinema Museum of Buenos Aires, who will also be the third awarded by the festival after the awards to Cecilia Roth and Ricardo Darín.
Argentine cinema will also be discussed outside cinemas with the presentation of the survey on the best films in history organized by the newspapers The useful life, Taipei Y the earth burns. In addition, there will be space for the launch of a new film magazine called the american nighttitle taken from the film by François Truffaut which he cited as the greatest inspiration john mtiernan just during this holiday.
The intensity is ensured for the closing and there is still a good part of Sunday without films scheduled, but this has nothing to do with rest: there is still time to see the films consecrated by the different juries of Internazionale, Latin America, Argentina and the Altered States.
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Source: Clarin
