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CANNES 2019: LA CORDILLERA DE LOS SUEÑOS DE PATRICIO GUZMÁN

Por Mónica Delgado

Como pasa con Nostalgia de la luz, la exploración del territorio sirve como oportunidad para la metáfora histórica, para ahondar en la memoria reciente de Chile. El desierto de Atacama como geografía es usado para comparar la vastedad de hechos que se mantienen aún sin investigar, y como símbolo de espera: cuando llega la anoche asoman los secretos del cielo, y permite la auscultación de constelaciones.

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CANNES 2019: LIVING AND KNOWING YOU ARE ALIVE BY ALAIN CAVALIER

By Mónica Delgado

There’s probably no film as intimate in this whole edition of Cannes 2019 like this work about mourning and goodbye. Alain Cavalier, with over eighty years, delivers a film about the last days of writer and script writer Emmanuele Bernheim, a friend of the author with whom he planned to make a film about her memories. This film diary, in the visual style of the most recent Cavalier, starts with reflections about the transit to the next life, and the narrations on how he accompanied his best friend Anne, who he met at 16, in a process of assisted death. And those images that come up through this tale in first person of the filmmaker, will accompany the whole development of the film, made in an artisan way with a very low budget.

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CANNES 2019: ZOMBI CHILD BY BERTRAND BONELLO

By Mónica Delgado

Zombie Child by Bertrand Bonello is a film made of cinema. Meaning, it’s soaked with a fantastic cinematographic legacy of over half a century, and, like the character in his film, rebuilds itself and brings it back to life in the middle of this Cannes film festival, through a tale that derives in a symbolic manifesto that looks to heal the barbarism of French colonization in Haiti. And Bonello doesn’t leave his guard down, quite the contrary; he has made the first great film I’ve seen in these past days. A must-see, which requires more than one viewing.

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CANNES 2019: SORRY WE MISSED YOU BY KEN LOACH

By Mónica Delgado

Ken Loach is up for his third Golden Palm with Sorry we missed you, a film of work labor treated as a family melodrama. Everything seemed to link this film to the “soap opera” I, Daniel Blake, hinting to a diptych, since they both have male leads living the transgressions of a system which doesn’t protect the worker. However, the bad taste that his 2016 film left crumbles in the first minutes, to promise a disenchanted tale about this fad of the franchise job (Uber, Glovo and such), but this time in the stage of a business that delivers packages in some city of the United Kingdom.

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CANNES 2019: LIVING AND KNOWING YOU ARE ALIVE DE ALAIN CAVALIER

Por Mónica Delgado

Probablemente no hay film más íntimo en toda esta edición de Cannes 2019 que esta obra sobre el luto y la despedida. Alain Cavalier, de más de ochenta años, entrega un film sobre los últimos días de la escritora y guionista Emmanuele Bernheim, con quien tuvo una amistad extensa y con quien planeaba hacer una película sobre sus memorias.

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CANNES 2019: ZOMBI CHILD DE BERTRAND BONELLO

Por Mónica Delgado

Zombie Child de Bertrand Bonello es un film hecho de cine. Es decir, se empapa de un legado fantástico cinematográfico de más de medio siglo, y como el personaje de su película, lo rearma y lo trae de nuevo a la vida en medio del festival de Cannes, a partir de un relato que deriva en un manifiesto simbólico que sana la barbarie de la colonización francesa en Haití. Y Bonello no baja la guardia, es más, ha hecho el primer gran film que he podido ver en estos días. Imprescindible y que requiere más de un visionado.

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CANNES 2019: SORRY WE MISSED YOU DE KEN LOACH

Por Mónica Delgado

Ken Loach postula a su tercera Palma de Oro con Sorry we missed you, un film de temática laboral que tiene tratamiento de melodrama familiar. Todo pintaba al inicio del film para que formara un díptico con la telenovelera I, Daniel Blake, al tener a protagonistas masculinos viviendo las trasgresiones de un sistema sin protección al trabajador.

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CANNES 2019: SONG WITHOUT A NAME BY MELINA LEÓN

By Mónica Delgado

Beyond the well-known phrase “based in real events” that appears at the beginning, Melina León’s Canción sin nombre (Song without a name) is a film which creates nebulous and saddened atmospheres of a Lima amidst political chaos in the eighties. Made in 4:3, this almost squared vision, is used to good purpose from the introduction, a sort of presentation that gives the sensation that being inside a T.V. screen, with textures that imitate 8mm film that show newspapers’ headlines with news of that decade, or with scenes, like the former president Alan García Perez (now deceased by suicide), one of the responsible of the hiper inflation in the country, and the moral and social drama the characters live.

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CANNES 2019: CANCIÓN SIN NOMBRE DE MELINA LEÓN

Por Mónica Delgado

Filmada en un maravilloso blanco y negro, a cargo de Inti Briones, Canción sin nombre, busca bajo este influjo de los días nublados, recuperar el espíritu de orfandad y decadencia de esta época de toque de quedas y bombas. Y más que la investigación periodística en la cual se inspira, de bebés robados al nacer a madres pobres, es una mirada desde la perspectiva de dos personajes que sufren las consecuencias de una sociedad en anomia, fruto del caos político, la inflación económica y la barbarie de Sendero Luminoso.

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CANNES 2019: BACURAU BY KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO AND JULIANO DORNELLES

By Mónica Delgado

Bacurau arrived to Cannes’ oficial competition with high expectations after its predecessor Aquarius. Both films not only share Sonia Braga but also explore the social diversity through the radiography or the allegoric framework. However, Bacurau goes beyond and marks a different tone. It could be seen as a new chapter in the filmography of Kleber Mendonça Filho, which blurs the already known style of the filmmaker.

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