Timothée Chalamet came to accompany “Bones and All”, by Luca Guadagnino, who directed it in “Call me by your name”. AFP photo
How many films do you, the reader, usually watch per day? Mariano CohnDirector of the distinguished citizen and from the series Whatever, with Luis Brandoni and Robert De Niro, this Saturday he had to see three. And to the wire. He is surrounded by other members of the Jury, and by the public, in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema, on the Lido of Venice.
And maybe, as happened to me, he didn’t have so much fun. Not so much for the quantity, but – let’s not say the quality, because it wouldn’t be fair – because none of the three productions has much to dive into, to look for when it comes to catching a performance, a script, something to save in the awards ceremony of Saturday 10 September.
As if it were a menu, we can talk about an appetizer, a main course and a dessert that the Mostra served the jury this Friday.
entrance
a couple marks a contradiction. At least, with what you see. Of the couple referred to in the title, only one person is seen in the film. It is Sofía Andréyevna Tolstáya, the wife of Leo Tolstoy, who in Frederick Wiseman’s film does not stop for a second to complain about the author of War and peace Y Anna Karenina.
The film, which competes for the Golden Lion, is the shortest of all (63 minutes) and is like a mixture of a monologue and a monologue – which is not the same – by Sofía. And everything Sofia says was taken from the correspondence the couple had. Although they lived under the same roof, they wrote letters to each other. And each also had a diary.
Mother of her thirteen children, no one appears on the screen, but there is talk of the difficult relationship between the spouses. She says he assumed her job was more important, but she scolds him for never doing anything to help her. They don’t even take care of the children.
Everything is imbued with images of what surrounds the house in the middle of nowhere. Trees, toads, standing water or not. More toads. The script is by the actress doing this solo, Nathalie Boutefeu.
Wiseman, 92, an honorary Oscar and three Emmy winner, began production on his documentary two months after the death of his 66-year-old wife, Zipporah Batshaw.
The main course
It’s clear Bones and allbecause it has an Italian director (Luca Guadagnino) and a young Hollywood star (Timothy Chalamet) and why the director and the actor together made the Oscar nominee call me by your name (2017), the film that really launched the careers of both. And there is already talk of a sequel.
The film catches you in the first five minutes. I’m not going to spoil anything, when the film only premieres in November. Until then, Mara (Taylor Russell) is a teenager who goes to high school and plans to escape on the night of Suchucho where she lives with her father, to go to the house of a classmate and “make more friends. “.
Why didn’t her father let her go? Hey?
She escapes from the window, arrives home, they are lying on a carpet, under a glass table and Mara puts her friend’s finger in her mouth.
Born in Palermo, Guadagnino is remembered, as we said, for call me by your namebut just at this point we should say that it seduces him, maybe, maybe, in one of those, plus the time and what the remake of Suspiriahis next film.
For With the bones and allincluded actors who had previously worked with him, such as Chloé Sevigny and Jessica Parker herself (A ghost in heaven) and Mark Rylance (bridge of spies), no and, of course, Chalamet, whose role I will not reveal.
Of the actor (tall black boots, taller socks and shorts) who now regrets working so hard with Woody Allen, starring in A rainy day in New Yorktook advantage of the press conference mentioned in the plot Bones and all It takes place in the 80s, when there were no social networks, to attack them.
“Being young now, even if I can only speak for my generation, is intensely judged”, began the protagonist of Dune. He continued: “I can’t imagine what it’s like to grow up with the onslaught of social media, it was such a relief to play characters grappling with an internal dilemma without the ability to go to Reddit, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and figure out where. adapt “.
And, just in case, he made it clear that “I’m not making a judgment, you can find your tribe there”.
Regarding the film, he said that “I was looking forward to working with Luca again to tell a story that had the same foundation as the first one, only this time it’s in the American Midwest in the 1980s about people who are deprived of rights. civilians. in any way possible. “
And for dessert
A film that has so many moving sequences shot with a drone that it leaves Alejandro González Iñárritu like a baby at the breast. Athena is an action drama, based on the death of a 13-year-old boy, apparently due to mistreatment by the French police.
The protagonists are his three brothers, who live in the community of the title (and the Greek tragedy), one is a policeman, another wants revenge and the third has business with drug traffickers. He is the second to break into the police station and steal weapons with the community, and what follows will be the merciless war between them and the police.
The film, another Netflix competition produced, was directed by Romain Gavras, son of Constantin Costa-Gavras, whose theme of political oppression led him to shoot classics such as Z Y Site status. Or the very Missingwhich took place in Pinochet’s Chile, and from which his son evidently took the white horse that ran through the streets of Santiago for a scene that contributes nothing and is more disconnected.
The film, another Netflix production in competition, was directed by Romain Gavras, son of Constantin Costa-Gavras, whose theme of political oppression led him to shoot classics like Z and Site status and Z. Or the Disappeared himself, which took place in Pinochet’s Chile, and from whom his son evidently took the white horse that ran through the streets of Santiago for a scene that contributes nothing and is more disjointed.
That said, this Friday there were three films in competition and the three competed with each other to show Julianne Moore, Mariano Cohn and the other jury members how hard it will be for them to find something to reward each other.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
