CANNES 2019: LIBERTÉ BY ALBERT SERRA
By Mónica Delgado
Albert Serra’s Liberté becomes a new semantic for the libertine imaginaries of the XVIII century. In hand with one of the motifs of the tales of Marquis de Sade, to the fantasies of Guillaume Apollinaire, and an installation and play from the own filmmaker, Serra develops in this film a naturalization of the different sexual practices of that particular historical context, to implant them under the shelter of some woods during a whole night and dawn. It’s the practice of decadent cruising for the enjoyment of voyeurists and exhibitionists.