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Cinema Island
Faust and others. At the Venice Film Festival
Cinema Island. 20 minutes of traveling on a motor boat from the tourist square of San Marko in the center of Venice to the festival palace on the island of Lido-and you are in the center of world cinema. Venice accepts the 68th International Film Festival. In the main competitive program, so far 22 films are still 22, one more traditionally can be declared later as a surplus film. On September 10, the Venetian bridge will announce the winners
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The Italian word “bridge” means “exhibition”, so the famous film festival is used to calling in Venice, which has been led by an encyclopedist and polyglot, who has fluent ten languages for eight years, a nobility of Marko Müller. An exhibition of achievements of world cinema under his leadership is representative and diverse. During the current festival decade, there will be 5208 views of films from different countries, including 65 world premiers.
In Venice, they do not ignore our cinema, as happens at other famous festivals. “Golden Lviv” from Venice at one time was brought by three Russian directors: Andrei Tarkovsky in 1962 for “Ivanovo Childhood”, Nikita Mikhalkov for “UrSU” in 1991, Andrei Zvyagintsev for “Returning” in 2003. He then got the “golden lion” for the best debut.
The discovery of Kosakovsky
The 68th festival was opened at once by two films: “March Ida”-George Clooney’s political thriller, made not in Hollywood, but by the efforts of several film companies, and the 108-minute documentary film by Viktor Kosakovsky “Long Antipodes!”.
Throughout the history of the festival, such an honor for the first time fell to the Russian director, this is one unconditional luck for our cinema, despite the fact that neither the Ministry of Culture, nor the other government agencies are involved in the creation of the film. The credits have several countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile. Russia is represented by producer Alexander Rodnyansky in the production of this large -scale copyright work of Viktor Kosakovsky. Alice prompted the author to the author, her words were taken by the epigraph to the film: “And what if you fail through the ground - how funny to go out among people who go upside down.” Filming was conducted in Spain, New Zealand, Argentina, China, Botswana, Hawaii, Chile and in Russia. Material assistance to the masterpiece (this is how Alexander Sokurov, who the director turned to a difficult moment, also appreciated the film of the film press around the world after the premiere), when there was a trip to New Zealand, and then there was no money. “He didn’t even ask what,” says Victor. “I just found out how much I immediately gave the right amount.”
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Alexander Sokurov first gave his film to Venice, although he is critical of any film -specifications. Communication with Cannes and Berlin, the master remained unhappy. The competitive "Faust" in Venice is impatiently awaited, it has already entered the top-tennity of the most noticeable films of the festival compiled by the Reuters agency. The 138-minute film was shot in Iceland and the Czech Republic, the main role was played by the German artist Johannes Zayler, all the characters of the film speak German. The whole story about how Faust sold the soul to Mephistopheles is recreated as a real event, is saturated with a dense life and many convincing details. Director Oleg Kovalov, who was lucky to see the Sokurovsky “Faust” at the installation stage, writes: “Of course, no one expected that Sokurov would lead to the Mephistopheles screen in a low -level cloak, with a sharp beard and demonically shifted eyebrows, but the degree of retreat not only from the opera stamp, but also from the image created by Goethe. The plastic Anton of Adasinsky in this role can be identified only by the final credits. ” The Venetian jury will watch Faust on September 8.
In the film adaptation of John Le Carre's novel “Ludger, tailor, soldier, spy”, Thomas Alfredson gathered the largest number of stars. The company of Hollywood celebrities Gary Oldman and Colin Fight was compiled by our artists Svetlana Khodchenkova and Konstantin Khabensky. After the premiere in the Venice Competition, the film will appear in the Russian box office called "Spy, go out!"
At the very last moment, Alexei German-Ml got into the short-term competition. With the film "From Tokyo". This is a rare instant response to Russian cinema. The heroes of the film played by Merab Ninidze, Chulpan Khamatova, Oleg Dolin, Ksenia Kutepova are former rescuers. Having learned about the earthquake in Japan, they go to the rescue.
Angelina Nikonova, Rostov, who graduated from a film school in New York and made her first film in Russia, brought to Venice the “Portrait at Twilight” according to the script of Olga Dykhovichi and with her in the lead role. The film will be shown in the program "Days of the authors", we had the premiere at the Kinotavr, and it was the most discussed film. Erotica and violence in the spirit of the unforgettable Liliana Cavani are immersed in the unique life of Rostov-on-Don (native city of the director), excellently shot on a digital camera (prize for the best operator work in the Kinotavra)-it turned out a good European cinema.
The program “Horizons” with the experimental work “Birmingham ornament” in the style of video art is participated by director Andrei Silvestrov and Yuri Leiderman.
Great and famous
The theme of the dangerous attractiveness of violence in sex and the influence of the love passion on the intellectual life of outstanding scientists was studied by the brave David Kronenberg in the competitive film "Dangerous Method". The love triangle Sigmund Freud - Karl Jung - Sabina Spilren, played by Wiggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Kira Knightley, excrete the audience in advance: Kronenberg is cleaner than Freud himself to plunge into the abyss of the human psyche. Unfortunately, Roman Polansky will not come to Venice, he is still under house arrest. His new film “Revenge”, the film adaptation of the famous play by Yasmina Reza, will present actors Kate Winslett, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John Si Rayli. But the Russian premiere, which was promised at the end of the year, Polansky, most likely, will arrive personally - there is no agreement on extradition between the United States and Russia. Another sensational play - “Killer Joe” - was transferred to the screen the veteran of the world cinema, William Fridkin, the main role was played by Matthew McConahi. Abel Ferrara will show “The Last Day on Earth”, Andrea Arnold - a new adaptation of the “Thunderstorm”, Philip Garrel - “The Summer of Passion” with Monika Bellucci. The revelations of the filmmakers are expected from Hong Kong, from Taiwan, from Greece-from Johnny directors, Wei Te-Shen, Yorgas Lantimos.
Outside the competition in the rating of the audience expectations, Madonna is the leader. Her second directorial work is devoted to love relations and the marriage of the English king Edward VIII and American Wallis Simpson, for which he renounced the throne. The ancient story will be told on behalf of a young modern woman (Abby Cornish). The film is called "We. We believe in love. "