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CANNES 2014: MAÏDAN DE SERGEI LOZNITSA

Por Mónica Delgado

Filmar la inmediatez de la revolución, desde su aspecto noticioso pero sin serlo, porque ante todo el director ucraniano Sergei Loznitsa parece estar en esa suerte de territorio comanche, donde la mística por el acto de registrar queda en evidencia en las dos horas y media de metraje de Maïdan. 

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CANNES 2014: MAÏDAN BY SERGEI LOZNITSA

By Mónica Delgado

To film the immediacy of revolution, from its newsreel aspect but not really like it. Before everything, Ucranian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa seems to be in this sort of Comanche territory, where the mysticism of registry is evidenced in the two and a half hours of footage of Maïdan.

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CANNES 2014: HERMOSA JUVENTUD DE JAIME ROSALES

Por Mónica Delgado

¿Cuándo es que los jóvenes dejaron sus aspiraciones y de qué manera sus anhelos quedaron echados al agua bajo un velo de alienación e inacción? Más que de las consecuencias del desempleo y la crisis económica de España, lo que Jaime Rosales muestra en el desarrollo de su filme (…)

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CANNES 2014: HERMOSA JUVENTUD BY JAIME ROSALES

By Mónica Delgado

When did the young left their aspirations and how did their longing was tossed to the water in a veil of alienation and inaction? Going beyond the consequences of unemployment and economic crisis in Spain, what Jaime Rosales shows in the development of his film is an inquiry, from certain keys, of the motivations of two characters in their experience of being parents, despite their twenty years of more, through the strike and living on expenses of chance and money falling from the sky.

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CANNES 2014: A GIRL AT MY DOOR BY JULY JUNG

By Mónica Delgado

We’ve seen Doona Bae, the Korean actress in several roles, but none like this in A girl at my door, by debutant July Jung. From Linda, Linda, Linda to The Host or Air Doll, this actress has show an evolution but always coming from the independent scene of her country, and going through roles where she’s presented in a passive character and resigned from certain situations.

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CANNES 2014. JAUJA BY LISANDRO ALONSO

By Mónica Delgado

Lisandro Alonso has taken to a new level that old invention of the land of treasures and unimaginable happiness, the torture of conquistadores and travelers, whose myth was part of the Spanish “romancero” of the XVII century, and that under the influence of the daydream becomes something more than a desired country of Jauja.

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CANNES 2014. NATIONAL GALLERY DE FREDERICK WISEMAN

Por Mónica Delgado

La fijación de Frederick Wiseman por registrar diversos mecanismos de poder institucionales, sobre todo culturales y políticos (desde universidades, hospitales, escuelas, comisarías, tanto estadounidenses como los focos de conocimiento hegemónicos europeos, como adentrarse en la Ópera de París) es nuevamente retomada en National Gallery

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CANNES 2014. LE MERAVIGLIE BY ALICE ROHRWACHER

By Mónica Delgado

The arcade is frequented by an adolescent girl, despite that both parents, both beekeepers which make the best honey in town, establish their own rules and habits. This girl, about fourteen years old, takes the control of the house, and archetypical family space life with specific routines, receiving the affection of her ill-tempered and bossy father, the advice of the sweet mother, the caring of the irreverent aunt and the naïve games of the three younger sisters.

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