At the halfway point of the festival from Japan a delicate tribute to Cinema, and section IN SOME PERSPECTIVE the parade of newcomers
In the Official Selection in the greek film director Competition Yorgos LANTHIMOS presenta THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER in una produzione anglosassone. The same author has presented and won at Cannes in 2015 The Lobster with starring Collin Farrel who this time has doubled its presence in Cannes along with Nicole KINDMAN. In a crescendo of suspense-horror the quiet of a famous cadiochirurgo model family is undone by the desire for revenge of the family of a patient who died during a heart operation. The elements for a good movie are all there. The villain played by young son saw in the movie Eastern Boys is a guy who is tenderness for his stubbornness. So much blood and the end of a painful choice for the heart surgeon. The topic could sembrae at first a hymn to the disintegration of the concept of family. In fact in the painful choice is the desire to salvificazione. The director once again confirms to possess a narrative vein that amazes.
From German director author of Amour starring Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant with the latter HAPPY AND a family saga of the wealthy middle class
in which the elements are there to make appreciate the film. In the story there is a definite reference to the former from the lips of the patriarch Trintignant. The surprise ending you will enjoy in room.
But here's the new star of the Rising Sun, already known and appreciated in the section Un Certain FRegard, now assiduous at the Cannes Film Festival with a tribute to the cinema to tear tears. Let's talk about Naomi KAWASE which presents HIKARI (RADEANCE). Of the delicate director include the AN 2015 distributed in Italy as Recipes lady TOKU, now it offers us a tribute seventh art wing with the story of passionate Misako author of film versions for the visually impaired.
In the Un Certain Regard selection in addition to emerging Laurent CANTET presents WORKSHOP set in La Ciotat and gives us a glimpse of France today. Just think of the surprise ending where in a writing workshop led by the protagonist Olivia is revealed the face of today's multi-ethnic France. Of the three rookies that deserves attention is the common Slovak director Gyorgy KRISTOF OUT which has a history of emigration with many interesting elements that amaze. After losing his job in a Agoston power plant he decides to go to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey to the place led him to brief encounters with new people and a reconciliation with the past who question his life. Slowly abandon the idea of work in Latvia and begins to pursue his wildest dreams. As for the francese Léonor SERRAILLE with JEUNE
FEMME presents a well thought out story that shows disruptive elements and yet predictable. The protagonist is a sfigatae mentally unstable alternating moments of lucidity. Finally Annarita ZAMBRANO with his debut APRÈS THE WARS with Giuseppe Battiston in the shoes of a terrorist who took refuge in France over the years gives us Italy lead of those years. Too bad the result is a foregone history in an educational workshop exercise.
In QUINZANES Fortnight of three Italians in the running earlier this week has passed and the intruder was appreciated by Leonardo De Costanzo.
The director tells us about a world recovery and the implications that there may be a personal level who is employed to assist the most vulnerable in a situation of a stateless.
Finally Cannes Classics suggest the film by Luis Buñuel's Belle de 1967.