The Cannes festival is close to ending, and already on Sunday evening the jury headed by George Miller will hand out prizes. But while here continue to show a movie — star, troubled, interesting, and correspondents “of the Tape.<url>,” continue tirelessly to watch and talk about it in their reports.
Igor Igritsky on the penultimate feed of the competition
Iranian Asghar Farhadi, the audience knows the movie separation of Nader and Simin”, which received in 2012 the “Oscar” for best foreign film. In 2013 he presented in Cannes that his next work — “the Secrets of the past”, received from the Ecumenical jury prize for best actress. In this competition his film is shown almost at the end, skrashivaya impression from a couple of failed paintings of the previous day, in particular recent work of Sean Penn and called “the Last face”, so weak and constricted, which separately devote her review hand is not understood. Amid some foam tape, which I more or less criticized, look quite decent. But now, in the penultimate day of the festival, it again appeared, we saw film clips from the winners.
The name of the new tape Farhadi directly in line with the famous play by Arthur Miller “death of a salesman (Death of a Salesman), played in local theater movie characters. In the story “the Salesman” (Salesman) is a little is associated with a tragic history of Miller, and the play necessary to the author only in order to label the cultural level of their heroes. Still, Iran is not France. So, the husband and wife, actors, he is also the teacher of literature is forced to move to a rented apartment because their house is almost collapsed because of construction works. Living in an unfamiliar place, the wife is attacked by the unknown: going to the bathroom, foolishly left the front door open, waiting for her husband from the store. A blow on the head stunned her so that she didn’t even remember the face of the criminal. However, while fleeing, he left the apartment, car keys, and her husband can not calculate the creep. They are provided with is not the man who could fall a suspicion.
The first part of the tape makes you think that we have before us another boring sketch of the life of Iranian citizens, but the second hour is devoted to investigation that satisfied the husband against the wishes of the wife to hush up the matter. It’s getting interesting: a woman is depressed, she’s scared, she feels dishonored, although apparently nothing happened. The actress crying all the time and cannot play in the play. Meanwhile, the teacher evaluates the offender on the number of abandoned car and decides to deal with it alone. Fluent in retelling it might appear that we have a detective, but in fact it’s a drama, because it is not in the investigation, and the relationship of the characters encountered in our eyes plays. Wife is totally against and more willing to forgive than to see my intelligent spouse covered by blind rage, as the arbiter of justice. All of this is superimposed on the specificity of relations within the Iranian society, which are interesting to watch from the screen: for example, women playing in the theater, however without headscarves do not go, even in your own apartment, and little boys barely learned to speak, do not go to the toilet at women, and where the hell is anything a little different than in the play of Miller. Of course, the painting decorates the casting. Actor Shahab Hosseini, whose men’s charisma combined with a very restrained manner of playing adds charm to this film. His partner Taraneh Alidoosti initially seems a little stiff, but towards the end played out, just like a play — actor in the final, the Duo shows off their talents in all their glory. This movie is quite capable to cause a response not only among the public: it is at once spectator and yet quite original shot (for example, there is almost no music), that is quite okay tailored to please the jury, given that the film was added to the program just a day before the festival. In General, if Farhadi beat competitors, I’m not upset.
Denis Ruzaev about the main standing ovation of the festival
The prolonged applause at this festival does not deserve a movie star — the filmmakers, it turns out, people love Oh how far to cult figures of the music scene. No one here is clapping so loudly and so passionately, like Iggy pop — he came to represent is devoted to The Stooges and included in the competition program documentary by Jim Jarmusch Gimme Danger (translate in this case, the name is pure blasphemy). Start of session was delayed for thirty minutes — and all because of Iggy, who shook hands with the guests, adorned in a tuxedo on a naked body, posed to hundreds of smartphones and radiated gratitude.
Movie after that could be anything — but in addition also proved to be good. Jarmusch, as shown in the week before the game, “Paterson”, is not very wise — but when it gets to the point. The history of the transformation of the five gouging from Michigan in the first great punk band of the twentieth century comes alive in an interview already older The Stooges, the newsreel and concert footage, even a simple animated boxes. But the main tool of the film — a rare coincidence of youthful spirit and energy charges, which, as it turns out, have not lost neither the musicians nor their depicting the history of the Director.
As for the filmmakers, the warmer things in my eyes here met not Kristen Stewart or, for example, Charlize Theron, and 73-year-old Japanese actress Kirin Kiki at the premiere of the program “Special look” of the new film, Hirokazu Kore-poems EDA “After the storm”. Kirin in it assigned is not the main role, but it is the emotional center of this picture, which, of all epithets the most suitable planet specific. That is “mental”. Core-ed with each film showcases the best understanding of human nature — and then comes into the territory where you worked as the great Yasujiro OZU (though without the eternal, vozvedshego any triviality of the formalism of OZU — but the Japanese society has almost got rid of almost all formalities forty years ago), namely the inevitable movies about the events of each human life. The care of parents, midlife crisis children, the first grandchildren growing up, the experience of divorce and humility with unfulfilled hopes — and most importantly, the statement that life, despite it all, continues.
In the center of the plot at the same time — blown away by a writer under forty, once a novel about his family earned the secondary prize, but since then have lost talent and my dear wife and son, and, worst of all, self esteem. Now he works as a private detective (i.e. primarily looking for the missing cats and bring to light the traitors) and can not pay child support because of the passion to the bets, the lotteries and sweepstakes. Ex-wife was getting married again — and threatens to separate from meetings with the child. Hero, together with the recently widowed, but cheerful mother makes one last attempt to reunite the family. I was always a pretty cool movie, Kore-poems EDA, but his sentimentality in “After the storm” is starting to seem way to please the audience — it had the feeling of vystreleneho, wise and hopeless sorrow. Such a adult movie about the real concerns of adults, while devoid of the seamy side and skepticism, in world cinema is increasingly rare — and therefore becoming more valuable.
