Heller’s is not in these times. The Film Festival in Venice honor the dark fiction: Stunted love machine man and a Turkish nightmare win
Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva in winning film “Desde allá” | © Venice Film Festival
This jury did not splash out. Busy with Oscar, palm and löwenbekränzten directors like Alfonso Cuarón, Pawel Pawlikowski, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, rewarded them – contrary to all hastily proclaimed trends and favorites – the remote, yes, the unknown. From the streaky offer of 72nd Venice Film Festival she looked unerringly fictional, idiosyncratic formal relationship stories out of our global presence disturbed. What the jury president Cuarón on Saturday night at the Lido almost casually announced at the Palazzo del Cinema, is a radical statement for renewing power of cinema through its classic authority:. Strong stories
The 48-year-old Lorenzo Vigas won with his debut film Desde allá ( From afar ) the first Golden Lion for Venezuela, currently a blank spot on the map of world cinema. He tells it as a first founding on money and power relationship between the mid-fifties, Armando (Alfredo Castro) and the 18-year-old street boy Elder, which turns into a kind of painful love. The gay Armando purchased his male toys fetches While in the apartment, but keeps them at a distance – until he meets the young Elder, who knocks him down and stealing. But instead to insist on retribution, he woos the boy continued, presents him, is the Drifter a surrogate father and the object of his stormy sexual desire. Of course, this goes wrong, and Armando, set at a controlled exchange relationship with the world, long a so selfish as cruel way Elder rid of.
Such a disaster can happen anywhere, and the strengths of Desde allá heard that he staged the Venezuelan capital Caracas as visually often held in the blur Allerweltskrisenmegalopole. Only the respective actors are quite in focus, horribly lonely in the noise of the city and the own feelings. Charlie Kaufman also, so to speak won the Silver Lion at the Grand Jury Prize, examines being alone within a two-ratio in the light fade that have become family structures. The wonderfully playful working romancer of everyday life ( Being John Malkovich , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ) does for the first time by means of the stop-motion animated film – and just the alienation makes the story appear prototypically valid.
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Michael and Lisa, spoken by Jennifer Jason Leigh and David Thewlis, are for each other really nothing more than a one -Night booth at the hotel. The angeödete of his everyday life full Aufsagesätze sales trainer Michael who meets the desert call center Duckling Lisa is, in a world of men’s voices beguiled alone by her female voice: Even the other beats so fundamentally one, as it is another to belangloseste way on volatilized morning. Total sad normal – except that here dolls, moreover, make this Allerweltserfahrung with merely angepappten face elements. Rarely a filmmaker has the familiar suspicion charming confirmed:. We also oh so individual Menschlein similar machines, if one takes apart our souls just fine mechanical precision
light arms worlds that make up the audience at the Lido in most glaring Light stumbled. Probably the darkest met – and overwhelmed after a while – the second feature film by the 41-year-old Emin Alper. Abluka (English title: Frenzy ), which won the Special Jury Prize, converted into an Istanbul the near future, which passes loosely as nightmarish halluzinierbare presence. Turkey, a paranoid police state terror suspects anywhere nests – hence the after 20 years released from prison must Kadir (Mehmet Ozgur) hired himself as an informer and official rummaging in garbage for incendiary devices. His younger brother Ahmet (Berkay Atesa) belongs to a brigade for the shooting of stray dogs and lives otherwise, perhaps, in the resistance. In this spatial and psychological world of Night director coated nightmare to nightmare, until the narrative plausibility begins to suffer. After all: this bizarre Tour de Force is a wild piece of cinema. And above all, an outcry against the self-destructive Turkey today
Scene from” Behemoth “from Zhao Liang | © Venice Film Festival
disregard the true stories
Against these films whose directors the podium almost distraught crested with happiness, the rest of the festival suddenly appears as waste. Especially the title with the inflationary imprinted seal of approval “by a true story” that seek to satisfy precisely the medium of cinema to dream fashionable hunger for authenticity, punished the merciless professional jury with contempt. Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl with Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander about the first man who had umoperieren for women in the 1930s and died there: namely told most elegant, but no chance. Perhaps also because the film verifiable biography of the painter Einar Wegener aka Danish Lili Elbe in favor of a tearful finale arg schönt. Xavier Giannolis biopic Marguerite on the imaginary opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, with Catherine Frot in the lead role: just pretty. And for Pablo Trapero, the massive rediscovers with El Clan the secured case of a murderous and greedy family dictator in the late years of the Argentine dictatorship, was just the best director award.
Offensive already operates there, that the jury, clearly story-driven , is another bold, radical forms of cinema shut, where the festival director Alberto Barbera had rolled out the red carpet wide. Overwhelmingly the poetic-documentary view of the Chinese Zhao Liang ( Behemoth ) on the devastating environmental and human destruction through open-pit mining in Mongolia. With touching intimate Laurie Anderson cinematic death diary Heart of a Dog . And in their Erforschungsfuror impressively Amos Gitai’s film processing of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ( Rabin, the Last Day ) – an attempt which 20 years ago put an abrupt end to the hopes for peace in the Middle East
Could it be that the future of quality cinema, which has largely all told in fictional, also lies in the visually ambitious, between documentary and essay settled films – off the franchise blockbuster, the computer games and the attractive American TV series, which threaten him to put an end on various fronts? The jury at the Lido has decided otherwise, pointedly in their own way and convincingly. The main thing: hope.
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