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Maps of the starry sky
Films of the Brothers Dardenn, David Kronenberg and Lysandro Alonso at the Cannes Film Festival Why don't they make a science fiction film? Or a historical drama? This is the first thought that rushes in the head after the Cannes premiere of the ninth film by Jean-Pierre and Luke Dardenov "Two days, one night."
If we take as a reference point of victory at the Cannes festival, then, it turns out, the Brothers Dardenne are the largest modern directors. Comparing with the great ones, the least I want to criticize these, indeed, wonderful authors. And yet: Italian neorealism begins with Roberto Rossellini's films, but ten years later he shoots a great “journey to Italy”, which turned communist criticism from him. He also had films about Socrates and Francis of Assisian, Blaz Pascal and Jesus; Here is a director who was not afraid to take risks. Vittorio de Sika is not only the "abductors of bicycles", but also the religious parable of the "gates of the sky", an unforgettable "miracle in Milan", comedy. Dardenne does not know how to shoot poorly, but still we have a very unrestrarative and depressingly straightforward film.
On Friday evening, Sandra is calling from work. The affairs of the company are not so good, the market conditions are unfavorable, competition is growing, it is necessary to reduce costs - in a word, ordinary capitalism with its anti -naval bird language. The boss put her colleagues before the choice: if they want to receive the promised prize of 1000 euros, then one of the employees, for example, Sandra, should be dismissed. The question - a bonus or Sandra - is put up for voting, fourteen out of sixteen people choose money. The heroine manages to achieve the right to re -vote on Monday morning, now there are two days left to look at everyone voted and ask to change the decision. Sandra only got out of severe depression, sneers sedatives swallows with handfuls and, it seems, is about to break.
The success of the brothers Dardenn introduced the fashion for a realistic cinema, where there is no place, for example, ordered music. Therefore, such an interesting experiment was the "Boy with a bicycle" with Adagio from the fifth piano concert of Beethoven; It was a departure from the rules established by the directors. "Two days, one night" is just the arithmetic mean of their previous films plus for some reason Marion Cotillard in the title role. Cinema can be put in advance in the imagination using a trailer and synopsis. However, the best moments of cinema Dardenov are also on the spot. Saspens borrowed from genre cinema: Sandra doesn’t even run all the time, but rushes about, there is little time. The motive of a kind of performance: when meetings with colleagues, shot mainly by one plan, without installation, the humiliating Sandra makes the same speech as an artist on the theater stage. Can I believe the text repeated time after time? Sandra herself at some point begins to doubt herself.
Empage to the heroes is a fundamental category for the Dardenn brothers, perceiving cinema as a handshake; They bring their characters, and with them the viewer, to moral, if not rebirth, then at least rethinking. But Sandra is more difficult to sympathize than a boy with a bicycle, Rosette or unfortunate marginals from previous paintings, which were much less responsible for their fate and choice. And therefore, the question of how to remain in these circumstances a man was much sharper for them. Finally, Dardenne began to work very roughly. It is clear that almost religious parables are always hidden behind the form of a naturalistic film, but the men who were crying one after another and suddenly decided to leave her husband’s husband, because he does not allow her to part with a bonus - this is still an overkill, a false note.
But the most long -awaited film “Special Glash” - “Hoha” by Argentinean Lyandro Alonso with Viggo Mortensen in the title role - following the “History of my death” by Albert Sergey confirms that the slow cinema of the zero years really gave rise to magnificent directors. Hoha - Earth of abundance and happiness; So the ancients said, but no one managed to see her with their own eyes. Such an introductory titer opens a film, the action of which takes place in the 19th century in Patagonia during the conquest of the desert by the Argentines, mercilessly exterminating the local population. However, neither the exact place of action, nor the time are called. We simply meet the Danish captain performed by Mortensen, who came to serve in the Argentine army and was somewhere on the edge of the world. Local is Fasting the ominous deserter Zuluga, the lustful military is waiting for the ball at the Minister of War, the desert absorbs everyone.
For the author of the minimalistic "Liverpool" and the "dead" in the "Hoch" at first there are unusually many dialogues, but soon the daughter of the protagonist runs away from a military camp with a young soldier, and Viggo Mortensen goes to search for it. In the desert, not only everyone is alone, but time flows non -linearly. Danish captain so wanted to find his daughter that he was ahead of time. In the mountains, he drank water from the source and met an elderly woman with a dog - either a sorceress or a fairy. This hypnotic fairy tale was composed by the Argentine poet Fabian Casas, and Lysyandro Alonso accompanies it with exquisite images taken by 16 mm. Viggo Mortensen not only played the main role and produced the picture, but also wrote music to it.
The soldier’s daughter looks at the back of his lover and sees the constellations from moles on her. In the most beautiful plan of the film, we observe how the clouds slowly dull the starry sky. David Kronenberg begins with the stars. At first, it resembles last year’s “canyons” of Schrader Paul - Hollywood cynicism, the disconnection of American stars, the skeletons of the former splendor of a large cinema. But what a new work of Kronenberg would be uninteresting, it remained just a satire on the customs of modern celebrities. "Star Card" is a melancholy movie reminiscent of the latest paintings by Jim Jarmusha, Francis Ford Coppola and Leos Carax. The failed actress dreams of playing the same role as her cruel mother; Ghosts read the poem of the field of Elyuar "Freedom"; Blood mixing love; ritual suicide of lovers; Daughters of fire. So far, this is one of the peaks of the main competition.
The main character shown in the parallel program "Criticism" "Teacher of the kindergarten" of a very interesting Israeli director Nadav Lapida repeats over and over again: the modern world is rude and cruel, there was no place for poetry. “Hoha” and “star map”, which have not succumbed to damage to realistic cinema, prove that so far everything is not so bad.
If we take as a reference point of victory at the Cannes festival, then, it turns out, the Brothers Dardenne are the largest modern directors. Comparing with the great ones, the least I want to criticize these, indeed, wonderful authors. And yet: Italian neorealism begins with Roberto Rossellini's films, but ten years later he shoots a great “journey to Italy”, which turned communist criticism from him. He also had films about Socrates and Francis of Assisian, Blaz Pascal and Jesus; Here is a director who was not afraid to take risks. Vittorio de Sika is not only the "abductors of bicycles", but also the religious parable of the "gates of the sky", an unforgettable "miracle in Milan", comedy. Dardenne does not know how to shoot poorly, but still we have a very unrestrarative and depressingly straightforward film.
On Friday evening, Sandra is calling from work. The affairs of the company are not so good, the market conditions are unfavorable, competition is growing, it is necessary to reduce costs - in a word, ordinary capitalism with its anti -naval bird language. The boss put her colleagues before the choice: if they want to receive the promised prize of 1000 euros, then one of the employees, for example, Sandra, should be dismissed. The question - a bonus or Sandra - is put up for voting, fourteen out of sixteen people choose money. The heroine manages to achieve the right to re -vote on Monday morning, now there are two days left to look at everyone voted and ask to change the decision. Sandra only got out of severe depression, sneers sedatives swallows with handfuls and, it seems, is about to break.
The success of the brothers Dardenn introduced the fashion for a realistic cinema, where there is no place, for example, ordered music. Therefore, such an interesting experiment was the "Boy with a bicycle" with Adagio from the fifth piano concert of Beethoven; It was a departure from the rules established by the directors. "Two days, one night" is just the arithmetic mean of their previous films plus for some reason Marion Cotillard in the title role. Cinema can be put in advance in the imagination using a trailer and synopsis. However, the best moments of cinema Dardenov are also on the spot. Saspens borrowed from genre cinema: Sandra doesn’t even run all the time, but rushes about, there is little time. The motive of a kind of performance: when meetings with colleagues, shot mainly by one plan, without installation, the humiliating Sandra makes the same speech as an artist on the theater stage. Can I believe the text repeated time after time? Sandra herself at some point begins to doubt herself.
Empage to the heroes is a fundamental category for the Dardenn brothers, perceiving cinema as a handshake; They bring their characters, and with them the viewer, to moral, if not rebirth, then at least rethinking. But Sandra is more difficult to sympathize than a boy with a bicycle, Rosette or unfortunate marginals from previous paintings, which were much less responsible for their fate and choice. And therefore, the question of how to remain in these circumstances a man was much sharper for them. Finally, Dardenne began to work very roughly. It is clear that almost religious parables are always hidden behind the form of a naturalistic film, but the men who were crying one after another and suddenly decided to leave her husband’s husband, because he does not allow her to part with a bonus - this is still an overkill, a false note.
But the most long -awaited film “Special Glash” - “Hoha” by Argentinean Lyandro Alonso with Viggo Mortensen in the title role - following the “History of my death” by Albert Sergey confirms that the slow cinema of the zero years really gave rise to magnificent directors. Hoha - Earth of abundance and happiness; So the ancients said, but no one managed to see her with their own eyes. Such an introductory titer opens a film, the action of which takes place in the 19th century in Patagonia during the conquest of the desert by the Argentines, mercilessly exterminating the local population. However, neither the exact place of action, nor the time are called. We simply meet the Danish captain performed by Mortensen, who came to serve in the Argentine army and was somewhere on the edge of the world. Local is Fasting the ominous deserter Zuluga, the lustful military is waiting for the ball at the Minister of War, the desert absorbs everyone.
For the author of the minimalistic "Liverpool" and the "dead" in the "Hoch" at first there are unusually many dialogues, but soon the daughter of the protagonist runs away from a military camp with a young soldier, and Viggo Mortensen goes to search for it. In the desert, not only everyone is alone, but time flows non -linearly. Danish captain so wanted to find his daughter that he was ahead of time. In the mountains, he drank water from the source and met an elderly woman with a dog - either a sorceress or a fairy. This hypnotic fairy tale was composed by the Argentine poet Fabian Casas, and Lysyandro Alonso accompanies it with exquisite images taken by 16 mm. Viggo Mortensen not only played the main role and produced the picture, but also wrote music to it.
The soldier’s daughter looks at the back of his lover and sees the constellations from moles on her. In the most beautiful plan of the film, we observe how the clouds slowly dull the starry sky. David Kronenberg begins with the stars. At first, it resembles last year’s “canyons” of Schrader Paul - Hollywood cynicism, the disconnection of American stars, the skeletons of the former splendor of a large cinema. But what a new work of Kronenberg would be uninteresting, it remained just a satire on the customs of modern celebrities. "Star Card" is a melancholy movie reminiscent of the latest paintings by Jim Jarmusha, Francis Ford Coppola and Leos Carax. The failed actress dreams of playing the same role as her cruel mother; Ghosts read the poem of the field of Elyuar "Freedom"; Blood mixing love; ritual suicide of lovers; Daughters of fire. So far, this is one of the peaks of the main competition.
The main character shown in the parallel program "Criticism" "Teacher of the kindergarten" of a very interesting Israeli director Nadav Lapida repeats over and over again: the modern world is rude and cruel, there was no place for poetry. “Hoha” and “star map”, which have not succumbed to damage to realistic cinema, prove that so far everything is not so bad.