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CANNES 2014: MOMMY BY XAVIER DOLAN
By Mónica Delgado Xavier Dolan has buit a carreer of five titles from a very personal surrounding, based in unseen family relationships, and under an intimate
2014.05.22
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CANNES 2014: ADIEU AU LANGAGE BY JEAN-LUC GODARD
By Mónica Delgado
The title says it all. In Adieu au Langage Jean-Luc Godard returns to the intentions of his episode for 3X3, but now reaffirming his least solemn side and carrying his reading about the perception of the technological, the impossibility of thought in any sort of «shareable» language to its most sarcastic possibilities, leaving space for an scatological mockery in between philosophical dwellings by Levinas, Husserl or Merleau – Ponty.
2014.05.22
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CANNES 2014: THE SALT OF THE EARTH BY WIM WENDERS AND JULIANO RIBEIRO SALGADO
By Mónica Delgado
After Pina, Wim Wenders returns to documentary, in an homage key, to make a portrait of the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, together with one of the sons of the protagonist, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. Bottom-line: A Filmmaker who films his father in his trips and a director focused in an editing and conceptual process of documentary
2014.05.21
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CANNES 2014: TWO DAYS AND ONE NIGHT BY JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE
By Mónica Delgado
Unlike other Dardenne brothers’ films, Marion Cotillard’s charácter becomes the essential piece, the engine, the soul, the life of Two Days, One Night. If in their previous films all the characters articulate themselves in a sort of social micro cosmos, here the variation is different.
2014.05.21
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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.
2014.05.21
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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.
2014.05.19
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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.
2014.05.19
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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.
2014.05.18
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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.
2014.05.18
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CANNES 2014. NATIONAL GALLERY BY FREDERICK WISEMAN
By Mónica Delgado Frederick Wiseman fixation for registering diverse institutional power mechanisms, above all, cultural and political (universities, hospitals, schools, stations, in America and Europe,
2014.05.17