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BERLINALE 2022: MUTZENBACHER DE RUTH BECKERMANN AND UN ÉTÉ COMME ÇA DE DENIS CÔTÉ

By Monica Delgado

I grouped these two films together, one from the Encounters section and the other from the official competition of the 72nd edition of the Berlinale, since they address the topic of sexuality from different perspectives and modalities (one is a documentary, the other is fiction), and both they question or problematize -consciously or not- the director’s gaze on this object of study. In Mutzenbacher (2022) by the Austrian documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann…

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BERLINALE 2022: UN AÑO, UNA NOCHE BY ISAKI LACUESTA

By Monica Delgado

Un Año, Una Noche (One Year, One Night, 2021) , premiered in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale, is a film about trauma and the impossibility of overcoming tragic events from a psychological point of view. Moreover, it seems appropriate that the adaptation of a non-fiction book about a survivor of the attack on the Bataclan club in Paris in 2015 fell into the hands of the Spanish filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta, since although the film describes the horror during this assault, it focuses more on the consequences of this event in the relationship of a young couple, played by the Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and the French actress Noémie Merlant.

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BERLINALE 2022: MATO SECO EM CHAMAS DE ADIRLEY QUEIRÓZ Y JOANA PIMENTA

Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Mato Seco em Chamas culmina con una procesión de motociclistas luego del incendio del aparato represor, representado en el vehículo blindado de la policía. Un final que adopta la épica western como declaración de principios, pero en este caso, principios de subversión elemental frente a la represión. Un filme notable en la filmografía de ambos cineastas.

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BERLINALE 2022: MUTZENBACHER DE RUTH BECKERMANN Y UN ÉTÉ COMME ÇA DE DENIS CÔTÉ

Por Mónica Delgado

Agrupé estos dos films, uno de la sección Encounters y otros de la competencia oficial del 72º edición de la Berlinale, ya que abordan desde diferentes perspectivas y modalidades (uno es un documental, el otro una ficción) el tópico de la sexualidad, y ambos interpelan o problematizan -conscientemente o no- la mirada del realizador o realizadora sobre este objeto de estudio.

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BERLINALE 2022: UN AÑO, UNA NOCHE DE ISAKI LACUESTA

Por Mónica Delgado

Un año, una noche, estrenada en la competencia por el Oso de Oro de la 72º Berlinale, es un film sobre el trauma y la imposibilidad de superar hechos trágicos en clave psicológica. Es más, parece oportuno que la adaptación de un libro de no ficción de un sobreviviente del atentado del club Bataclán en París en 2015, cayera en manos del cineasta español Isaki Lacuesta, ya que si bien el film describe el horror durante este asalto, se concentra más en las consecuencias de este suceso en la relación de una joven pareja, encarnada por el actor argentino Nahuel Pérez Biscayart y la actriz francesa Noémie Merlant. 

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BERLINALE 2022: EVERYTHING WILL BE OK BY RITHY PANH

By Monica Delgado

Presented in the international competition of the 72nd Berlinale, Everything Will Be Ok, by the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, is an activist statement against everything that makes up the destruction of the world: totalitarianism, genocide, exploitation, cruelty, subjugation, decadence, in a great cocktail visual, typical of the reflective essay film, and in this case with a particular political agenda.

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BERLINALE 2022: AVEC AMOUR ET ACHARNEMENT BY CLAIRE DENIS

By Monica Delgado

All the elements of Avec amour et acharnement belong to the previous universe of Claire Denis. In this adaptation of a novel by the French writer Christine Angot, made in tandem with Denis herself in the script, unusual meanings about love appear, as well as forms of genre cinema, fetish actors, and a dramatic imprint around the rupture of the idyll. Presented in the official competition of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, this new feature film by Denis is a stupendous work about the figure of the intruder, and about suspicion, a necessary input to narrate a love story seen a thousand times, but here under the influence creative and innovative of Denis.

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BERLINALE 2022: FLUX GOURMET, BY PETER STRICKLAND

By Monica Delgado

Peter Strickland’s fifth feature film is a satire on the world of artists in residence. Following the style of The Duke of Burgundy (2014), his episode in The Field Guide To Evil (2018) or In Fabric (2018), in Flux Gourmet (2022) exposes a fabled setting, with delicate, glamorous characters, but who they never cease to be bizarre or grandiloquent, to tell a story about impact performances.

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BERLINALE 2022: RIMINI, BY ULRICH SEIDL

By Monica Delgado

With more than twenty films, between documentaries and fiction, the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl arrived at the 72nd edition of the Berlinale. Rimini’s premiere is part of the official competition, and although it takes the name of a city that is not indifferent to any movie buff (the birthplace of Federico Fellini), it is a portrait of an autumn character, crossed by a context political and social, as is often the case in much of this filmmaker’s cinema.

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BERLINALE 2022: AVEC AMOUR ET ACHARNEMENT DE CLAIRE DENIS

Por Mónica Delgado

Todo los elementos de Avec amour et acharnement  pertenecen al universo previo de Claire Denis. En esta adaptación de una novela de la escritora francesa Christine Angot, hecha al alimón con la misma Denis en el guion, asoman sentidos inusuales sobre el amor, así como formas del cine de género, actores fetiche, y una impronta dramática en torno a la ruptura del idilio.

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