After the weekend, half of the Cannes Film Festival has already passed. It was an intense weekend, which saw the presence of Harrison FordLeonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. A luxury that few festivals can afford.
But of the films starring the aforementioned Hollywood stars, only the one shared by Portman and Moore (may december) is competing for the Palme d’Or and is one of eleven that the Jury integrates Damiano Szifron You have already seen and you must evaluate to discern the prizes that will be awarded next Saturday 27.
Since there are a total of 21 films competing in this edition, one could already guess some of the titles that will be held on Saturday. But the truth is that the film that enchanted, liked or aroused unanimous seduction did not appear clear.
There are two that add consensus: they are The area of interestby Englishman Jonathan Glazer, e Stroke anatomy (anatomy of a fall), by Jessica Hausner.
One radical and the other surprising.
The first, as we have already said, is the most radical of those seen in the competition, with the Holocaust shown in a different way. The family of commander Rudolf Höss lives in a villa attached to Auschwitz, and you can see the smoke from the fireplace where the murdered bodies are cremated, or from the locomotives of the trains that take the deportees to that complex in occupied Poland, the largest extermination center of the Third Reich.
The other is more recent. Stroke anatomyby Justine Triet (her film sibyl competed in 2019), surprised forever. It’s a film that spends a good part of its two and a half hours in a court of law, where Sandra’s guilt or not (Sandra Hüller, from the excellent Tony Erdmann), the wife of Samuel (Samuel Theis), who apparently committed suicide by jumping from a window of her house on the outskirts of a French town.
anatomy has a scene that mobilizes and arouses strong interest: a discussion that the couple had the day before Samuel’s death, very revealing of the pain, feelings, fears and resentments in the couple, whose little son (Milo Machado Graner), that he injured his optic nerves in an accident, he has to testify.
The movie really grabs and unnerves from that scene, because everything that was believed to be true, may not be.
Östlund might have liked both films: the second for the dissection of that family, as the Swede did in major forceUndoubtedly his best film. And it was directed by one of the six directors in competition. And it’s French. AND…
The other novelty on Sunday – which, due to a matter of embargoes, we can only comment on now) was ember (the king of the queen), directed by Brazilian Karim Aïnouz (madam satawinner of Un Certain Regard for The invisible life of Eurídice Gusmao).
If at the beginning we saw a slightly chubby Johnny Depp in the role of King Louis XV of France, now Jude Law is overweight to play King Henry VIII. Yes, the one with the six wives, the despot. But the film focuses on his latest wife, Catalina Parr, played by Alicia Vikander (the Danish girl).
the queen’s jewel -what translated is the queen’s game– is therefore the English debut of a Brazilian director, with a Swedish actress and yes, an English performer in the foreground. In these times where female empowerment is more evident than in more recent ones, the story of the queen who dared to defy her husband and, unlike her five predecessors, did not literally die trying or losing her crown.
Catherine was independent, when no one dreamed of it, and inspired by her reformist friend Anne (Erin Doherty), she was the cornerstone of a freer English society. The king’s leg infection leads him to think that his days are numbered, but the despot has time to suspect that his wife is disloyal to him. Will be?
Anyone who remembers high school history books knows this. Those who don’t, cross their fingers to see if a distributor buys the film and opens it theatrically in Argentina.
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Source: Clarin
