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Cannes

CANNES 2017: DIRECTIONS BY STEPHAN KOMANDAREV AND OUT BY GYÖRGY KRISTÓF

By Mónica Delgado

The Iranian film A Man of Integrity, by Mohammad Rasoulof has just won Un Certain Regard, and since it’s a film that we didn’t watch, we can’t really judge the jury decision or the film itself. However, we highlight two Eastern Europe films presented in this section which were interesting enough (but inferior to last year’s Câini, by Bogdan Mirica or Sieranevada, in the official competition) and had particular universes which we describe here.

2017.05.28

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CANNES 2017: LA BOUCHE BY CAMILO RESTREPO

By Mónica Delgado

La bouche keeps a risk that has characterized the style of the Colombian filmmaker, and that is affirmed here through the use of 16mm and the continuity of an aesthetic, that many assume as “guerrilla film”, and that in Cilaos or La Bouche is centered in the choreography and a body sublimation of rhythm. This is a film of formal affronts that may have gone further than the other short films presented in the Quinzaine.

2017.05.28

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CANNES 2017: THE NOTHING FACTORY BY PEDRO PINHO

By Mónica Delgado

A fábrica de Nada, presented in the Quinzaine de Realisateurs, speaks about something no other Cannes film has mentioned: the reality of a Europe that screams for a life jacket, but not because of migration or racism issues, xenophobia or bourgeois indifference; where the only exit is renouncing the world we live in, coped by the result of this economical system: nothingness.

2017.05.26

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CANNES 2017: FROST, A GENTLE CREATURE, RODIN AND ALIVE IN FRANCE

Halfway through Cannes, our report of different films in the festival.

2017.05.26

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CANNES 2017: THE BEGUILED BY SOFIA COPPOLA

By Mónica Delgado

The greatest merit of The Beguiled lies in how Coppola constructs the relationships between women, through silences or simple and suggestive dialogues that avoid evilness, and bets for an atmosphere of power plays, where the photography unveils this darkness that the actions repress or hide.

2017.05.26

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CANNES 2017: THE DAY AFTER BY HONG SANG-SOO

By Mónica Delgado

In The Day After, one finds some subtle transformations on the narrative strategies of Hong Sang-soo had patented throughout his filmography: variations on a same theme or occurrence, where the narrator has the ability to return to a previous scene to revisit it, thus originating a double lecture of what could have been.

2017.05.25

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CANNES 2017: LA FAMILIA BY GUSTAVO RONDÓN CÓRDOVA

By Mónica Delgado

It’s impossible not to see La Familia from the political, social and economic crisis that Venezuela is suffering in the last years. However, Gustavo Rondón Cordova isn’t looking to make a social diagnosis or any kind of critique to the present regime in his first feature film.

2017.05.23

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CANNES 2017: THE FLORIDA PROJECT BY SEAN BAKER

By Mónica Delgado

Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a film about the construction of a Paradise, of a bubble, of an arcade of roses for children among an obscure America, the America of unemployment, poverty and crisis.

2017.05.22

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SURREALISM AND TWIN PEAKS: THE ORIGIN OF DAVID LYNCH AND MARK FROST´S GREAT WORK

By Karla Loncar

David Lynch has been particularly responsible for the lasting allure of the show. In other words, the series would be inconceivable without the content-based and formal characteristics typical of Lynch’s films: his love for the contrast between the eerie and the comical, light and dark, popular and exquisite; the preoccupation with the motif of evil (in a seemingly idyllic American small town); the fascination with the subconscious turmoil of characters; the richness of varying, often disturbing, sounds; and modern methods of filmmaking, particularly visible in the series’ pilot and the individual episodes directed by Lynch himself.

2017.05.16

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NEW FILMMAKER: SU HUI-YU

by José Sarmiento Hinojosa

The work of Hui-Yu can be seen as an exploration of the primary erotic impulses of humanity, not only as a personal occurrence, but as a phenomena that transports itself into mass media. Super Taboo (2016), his latest work, is a dual screen diptych that explores the erotic fantasies of his lead character, which manifests themselves as a giant tableau vivant, where several “scandalous” sex acts take place.

2017.04.17