By Monica Delgado
With more than a dozen films to his credit, Arnaud Desplechin has made it clear at Cannes 2022 that his desire to make movies is going through a bad time. What he captures in Frère et soeur (Brother and sister) shows wear and tear, but also perhaps the decision not to develop what the film suggests, advances or outlines, leaving between the lines as a practical exercise for the viewer.
By Monica Delgado
As with Boy from Heaven, also in official competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, Holy Spider is a 100% European production based on an Islamic reality. If in Boy from heaven, the Swede of Egyptian origin Tarik Saleh explores the interior of religious power from its formative levels, in Holy Spider, the Iranian living in Denmark Ali Abbasi formulates a story about a serial killer of sex workers in Mashhad, the second largest city in this Muslim country. Both themes would probably be censored in the countries to which they refer, and that filmmakers with the possibility of making them abroad is an opportunity to discuss issues of social and political fundamentalism (although of course, always with concessions very much in tune with the thematic fashions of the moment in festival spaces like this) and from a moral perspective of the West.
By Monica Delgado
This is a film about some events in Egypt, but it is not produced by that country. Made with capitals from Sweden, Finland and Denmark, Boy from Heaven, the fifth feature film by the Swedish filmmaker, of Egyptian descent, Tarik Saleh is a political thriller about a young son of a provincial fisherman who, thanks to a scholarship, enters the theological university of Al-Azhar in Cairo, where boarding students are trained to be mediators of Sunni Islam. After his admission and acclimatization to the new life, Adam is tangentially affected by the death of the Great Imam, who runs the institution, and with it he will be immersed in a network of conspirators for religious power, which is equal to political power in that country.
By Monica Delgado
We are already in the sixth day of the Cannes festival and the film Tchaikovsky’s Wife, by Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, already looks very old in the course of it. On the one hand, because of the way the filmmaker takes to extrapolate a historical drama to the screen in relation to other films seen these days, and on the other, because of a certain decadent look, even more so towards the end of the film, which at this point heights looks outdated and very, paradoxically, of qualité.
By Monica Delgado
After a few days in this 75th edition of the Cannes Festival, it has been difficult to find a well-rounded film (such as Scarlet by Pietro Marcello, seen in the Directors’ Fortnight, which we will write about soon). Although War Pony, the first feature film by actress Riley Keough and producer Gina Gammell and presented in the official section Un Certain Regard, is not a successful film, it contains a look that is followed with considerable interest, around a couple of characters in work and family crisis; a teenager and a young man who live in Pine Ridge, a territory of South Dakota. Both characters, who do not know each other, make up the two narrative lines that the directors choose to show the portrait of a community, perhaps marked by commonplaces, such as drug trafficking, poverty and social exclusion. Although, the ‘coming of age’ touch and some decisions in the editing and staging mean that the result is not negligible.
Por Mónica Delgado
Luego de Graduation (Bacalaureat, 2016), Cristi Mungiu regresa a las pantallas en R.M.N. con una historia que funciona como alegoría social sobre racismo, clasismo y fascismo, que se ambienta en una comuna transilvánica. Describir las características de la semilla del fascismo, o es más, la naturaleza misma de esa tara social y política, es la materia emocional con la que el cineasta va construyendo la sensibilidad de una sociedad racializada -y que racializa- desde dentro de Europa y también como parte de la periferia.
Por Mónica Delgado
Con más de una docena de films en su haber, Arnaud Desplechin ha dejado en claro en Cannes 2022 que sus ganas de hacer cine están pasando por un mal momento. Aquello que plasma en Frère et soeur (Brother and sister) muestra un desgaste, pero también quizás la decisión de no desarrollar lo que el film sugiere, adelanta o perfila, dejando las entrelíneas como ejercicio práctico del espectador.
Por Mónica Delgado
Como pasa con Boy from heaven, también en la competencia oficial del 75º Festival de Cannes, Holy Spider es una producción 100% europea sobre una realidad islámica. Si en Boy from heaven, el sueco de origen egipcio Tarik Saleh explora el interior del poder religioso desde sus estamentos formativos, en Holy Spider, el iraní radicado en Dinamarca Ali Abbasi formula una historia sobre un asesino en serie de trabajadoras sexuales en Mashhad, la segunda ciudad más importante de este país musulmán.
Por Mónica Delgado
Esta es una película sobre algunos sucesos en Egipto, pero no la produce ese país. Realizada con capitales de Suecia, Finlandia y Dinamarca, Boy from heaven, quinto largometraje del cineasta sueco, de ascendencia egipcia, Tarik Saleh es un thriller político sobre un joven hijo de un pescador de provincia, que gracias a una beca ingresa a la universidad teológica de Al-Azhar de El Cairo, donde los estudiantes internos se preparan para ser mediadores del islam sunita.
Por Mónica Delgado
Estamos ya en el sexto día del festival de Cannes y el film Tchaikovsky’s Wife, del ruso Kirill Serebrennikov, ya luce en el transcurso muy envejecido. Por un lado, por la forma que el cineasta asume extrapolar a la pantalla un drama histórico en relación a otros films vistos en estos días, y por otro, por cierta mirada decadentista, más aún hacia el final de la película, que ya a estas alturas luce desfasada y muy, paradójicamente, de qualité.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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