SPECIAL # VENEZIA75 #5 – 29 August / September 8 2018 (DAYS 2&3): directors Awards Oscar Alfonso Cuarón, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen contend for the podium

(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marino fearful- Photos are published courtesy of the Venice Biennale)

After the inauguration on the red carpet at the Oscars directors Alfonso Cuarón, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen tackle universal themes but DOUBLES VIES Olivier Assayas' There seems to be more relevant because it reflects on society of the new media that shook up the balance of the last century.

After the test is not entirely convincing of Damien Chazelle films in Competition VENEZIA 75, waiting for the weekend Italian, It has sodisfatto the audience with three directors of respect. We refer first of all to that with the French Olivier Assayas DOUBLE LIVES on a towel from vogue tales it reflected caustically on new media represented by democracy on the internet. No shortage of typically French ingredients such as mutual betrayals of the couple formed by Guillaume Canet and always fascinating Juliette Binoche, but also the Vincent Macaigne gag, and its underdog role as seen in other films. Not just talking about internet, but also the god of money that pervades the global society with a humor and a remarkable lightness.

THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Sure that the wait for the new film THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS brothers ETHAN COEN and JOEL COEN with remarkable actors like Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson has not been placed in vain. With six squares set in the western frontier of the Coen remind us of the limits of our humanity with grotesque look to them so dear but also with subtle irony. It starts with the western par excellence where the hit man is a stumbling block in his career. But the bandit specializing in robberies is her stumbling in the brilliant career and something more. In these poor, however, it unites the human greed that destroys the environment in search of a vein of gold, or the traveling show of "human Wonderland" that appears to balance the misdeeds with an alleged empathy that will prove ephemeral. In the end what could finally sound like a good work proves disastrous. Hence the Man and its limits!

Anche in Lanthimos THE FAVOURITE with a great cast as Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz deals with the greed of human beings placing temporally England post Napoleonic revolution where the palace intrigues and the omnipotence of a Queen backdrop to the poverty of the common people. We refer to the comments of Marina fearful the reading of a film key where the set design and the costumes have a considerable weight.

It could not be otherwise the success of the Mexican Alfonso Cuaron that gives us quality films with pills ROMA. The delicate story in black and white produced by Netflix shows us a familiar picture in the Mexican city of Rome petit bourgeoisie struggling with their daily problems and the relationship with the indigenous servitude. The male figure of the master who returns home triumphantly with a luxury convertible is overshadowed by the determination of his young wife, the grandmother who takes care of the offspring and maids. They too have the problems to be solved. The backdrop to the story of Mexican society years 70 with its contradictions in a period of turbulence undemocratic fronds that freely roam the streets instilling terror in the population. Cuaron is still proving a Master of Cinematography Mexican and international.

From America a Rick Alverson niche films that THE MOUNTAIN addresses the issue of mental illness and the atrocities of the asylums that even in America after World War II were common practices. The protagonist is a young man whose mother was interned in a mental hospital. At the sudden death of his father he finds himself following as a photographer a psychiatrist who treated the mother and who practices electroshock and lobtomia. Again the scenery and costumes are of great importance for the film with the meticulous attention to detail.

To the critics and the public the provisional results of these first three days sees the Mexican Cuaron clearly exceed the Coen brothers are unexpectedly like Damien Chazelle and his The First Man, film that inaugurated the Show.

In selecting HORIZONS after the opening film On my skin of Alessio Cremonini in order of rating ourselves French films AMANDA Mikhael HERS with the young actor lanciatissimo Vincent Lacoste in the part of David. Amanda is a girl raised by her mother, English teacher. The young David's uncle, rounding the salary with an odd job, suddenly it finds themselves having to care for orphaned niece for a terrorist attack in Paris. The French capital lived tragic moments and David slowly adjusts to the new figure must cover. In the background an unresolved issue with the mother and grandmother of Amanda, who abandoned the family when David and his sister were still tots. An intimate story that weaves the fears of terrorism with fears growing of young David. Interpretation of the beautiful young star Amanda in Q&A deltalento gave evidence and maturity although the young age.

It is not the first time that Brazil and Latin America in general is launched the message of political dissidents disappeared during the dictatorship. In the film DESLEMBRO FLAVIA CASTRO the topic is dealt with from the perspective of the children who have found themselves suddenly orphaned by a parent or worst of both. In this story the young protagonist returns to Brazil, from where she was forced into exile in France a decade earlier with his mother. The desire to get the father of the traces disappeared the door to re-float a tragic experience.

Interesting and provocative Israeli film THEM (STRIPPED) di Sahwani. It addressed the issue of sexual violence and of conscription in Israel. Too bad the ending of the story is so commonplace.

Finally the opportunity to realize a film with disruptive L'Enka It was wasted by newcomer SARAH MARX that contributes to the Lion of the Future Award. A look at the world of youth work who prefer easy money with drug-dealing results in trivial sequences.

While OUT OF COMPETITION for the SPECIAL EVENTS a gem with mounting posthumous work THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND Orson Welles' with the participation of interpreters chosen by the Master himself. John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster. An autobiographical film and denunciation which occupied the last five years OR. Welles, unable to get the funding to complete it.

On the Red Carpet in the rain occurred Lady Gaga A STAR IS BORN BRADLEY COOPER of a singer who plays Rock and tells us with beautiful songs of Lady Gaga a modern fairy tale.

Always OUT OF COMPETITION but in the section DOC a documentary on Iraqi territories recently liberated from Jadia from the point of view of thousands of sympathizers Isis captured. It is ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL FRANCESCA MANNOCCHI, ALESSIO ROMENZI. It 'a political film that shows the other truth. The fact remains that the engine of all these humanitarian disasters is flourishing arms trafficking that seems unstoppable.

For information on these two days have gone out even competition MY MASTERPIECE Argentinian Gastón Duprat, story of a deep friendship and NI DE LIAN (YOUR FACE) del cinese TSAI MING-LIANG, ode to poetry.

Over the weekend instead we look forward to the performance of Italian Luca Guadagnino and Roberto Minervini.

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