I have been surprised by several things in the last few hours in venice party. Between what Harry Styles he would spit on Chris Pine when he sat down in the Great Room for the gala Don’t worry honey; that Pine put on his black glasses when the hall lights went out and he fell asleep; and that veteran director Giani Amelio refused to answer a reporter’s question at a press conference (“I deleted your phone number, your title was infamous!”), referring to a comment he had made about his previous film …
This Venice edition gives it all.
It is known that the musician and the actor did not get along with Pine on the set of the film. It seems that the romance between our next illustrious visitor (he stars in December in River) and actress and director Olivia Wilde, who allegedly neglected filming, began there. Some even tell me that she was Florence Pugh who directed some scenes …
The exhibition advances, fatigue begins to show itself and the seats in the Dársena hall begin to have less occupation, and there is some snoring. Well, even the films in official competition for the Golden Lion don’t help us much.
Likewise, the Exhibition has figures that alone, when they name them, attract attention. There are actresses who, almost invariably, repeat themselves in the editions of the most important festivals in the world (Cannes, Venice, Berlin). There is always a film with Isabelle Huppert. Or one with Cate Blanchett. And another subscriber is Tilda Swinton.
Swinton, Oscar winner and performer of the recent Memory, the French chronicle Y once upon a time there was a genius (which will debut on Thursday in Argentina), he acts twice The eternal daughter, by Joanna Hogg, produced by Martin Scorsese. Before sitting down to see it, let’s check its duration. 96 minutes. With all the movies in over two hours, it feels like heaven.
It is not.
cute and scary
Tilda, always adorable, who at the gala was dressed in long silver, with a canary yellow hairdo, plays a documentary director who travels with her mother, also played by her, when they return to an old mansion where they spent several moments, now transformed in a desolate hotel, with no other guests and full of noise at night. There are a few days left to celebrate, alone, the birthday of her mother.
Oh, they got the mother’s dog.
The music is horror – and I’m not talking about the composition being bad -. There is an apparition, a lady dressed in white pajamas, or something like that, looking out a window. And a twist, one of those that make us think or how I didn’t realize it, or stop me, didn’t give me clues to make me understand.
Anyway, The eternal daughter you have to delete it.
Competition comes from Japan love lifeby Koji Fukada, a soap opera that could be seen at any time of the afternoon on television.
Except because the protagonist’s son dies by drowning in a bathtub.
It is a story of love and misunderstanding, because the child’s father had abandoned the child when he was a child and his mother. He is now back, he is Korean and deaf. The protagonist’s current partner had left her girlfriend to be with her and, from time to time, they meet again.
Another one to leave aside.
Local, but may not win
Italy has among its many films in competition The Lord of the Ants (The lord of the ants), by Gianni Amelio, the director we were talking about at the beginning. It is his seventh time competing for the Golden Lion (which he already won in 1998, with so they laughed) and, except for the first time, he always came, but always received official recognition.
At 77, the director of Open doors Y lamerica freely adapts a real event of the 60s, when homosexuality was not only in Italy as a dirty word. Aldo Braibanti was a writer, poet, philosopher and myrmecologist (he who studies the behavior of ants: every day you learn something new), an intellectual destroyed for having loved a man. What is more, much less.
A judicial process was initiated, he was given 9 years in prison, but he had the opportunity to appeal.
If you want to know more, wait to see if it opens in Argentina or go to Wikipedia.
Walter Hill’s western
And to conclude a very special day, for the lack of everything that has been seen, taking advantage of the fact that the great Walter Hill will receive the Cartier Glory award for filmmaker, they screened died for a dollarhis new movie.
It is his first film as a director in six years (The assignmentwith Michelle Rodriguez and her great friend Sigourney Weaver, he’s from 2016) and to his young 80s he looks a little tired.
Needless to say, Hill was a hero of American cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, writing the screenplay for Alien Y The escape and directing small masterpieces such as drivers, The warriors, Streets of fire, 48 hours…?
In died for a dollar surrenders to the western, with a not complicated story at all. Christoph Waltz is a bounty hunter, a role similar to what he had Django Unchainedsaving comparisons, who is hired by a husband to track down and bring back his wife (Rachel Brosnahan, from The wonderful Maisel), who actually ran off with a deserted soldier. And what’s more, he’s African American (Brandon Scott).
Max has an assistant (a sergeant) and there is an experienced poker player and ace gunslinger (Willem Dafoe) just out of prison, who hates him. Ah, since the actions take place in New Mexico, the almighty lord of the region is a Mexican (Benjamin Bratt, who isn’t, but it doesn’t matter).
What did he say. It is the fatigue that makes itself felt on both sides of the screen of the exhibition.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
