Leo listened to a fairy tale

The jury of the 74th Venice Film Festival was awarded the main prize of the Golden Leo of St. Mark "" The form of water "Guillermo del Toro. Without awards, the film of Abladif Keshish “Mektub, my love. The song is the first” remained without awards, but, fortunately, not only festival winners remain in the history of the cinema.

The three -hour canvas of Abladetif Keshisha, the author of "Cuscus and Barabulka", "Black Venus" and "Life of Adele", - the energy explosion of the second half of the festival, or the film, or the ecstatic erotic dance in 187 minutes; I hope that the rolling version will not be shorter, but on the contrary, even longer - the credits will be put in order, in which there are now no loans for used works - both musical and cinematic. As a result, it seems that without a hint, almost no one has identified the Russian dumb film, which is watching the main character Mektuba, a novice screenwriter, a potential director and incorrigible synofile Amin: in this short fragment of Arsenal Alexander Dovzhenko, the title of the enemy’s army attacked the cheerful gas of our valiant warriors ”and a frame with a poisoned soldier, who An unhealthy smiling head sticks out of the trench of the First World War. This quote is the only invasion of pain, dirt, war in the sunny and, unexpectedly, the completely apolitical world of Keshish. If, of course, not to look for political subtext is that the year is 1994: Mediterranean Europe, where the action is localized, has not yet encountered migration waves, the south of France has been inhabited exclusively by peaceful and happy natives from Tunisia-Keshish again, as in the “piece and a barabulka”, removes its native ethnic environment. And the hero makes a guy enthusiastic about a photograph and dreams of a movie - but this certainly does not follow the conclusion about the autobiographicality of the picture and the coincidence of the look of the camera with the gaze of the hero.

The main intrigue of "Mektuba" - with whom, finally, the Amin will sleep

In Sinefilia, Amina is more important than something else: he is a recluse, who feels comfortably alone in the loneliness of the cinema and a dark manifold room (1994-this is also no figure, only classic photo printing from the film). And he is a voyeur who prefers not to dive into a seething life stream, but to observe him. Hence his innocence - Amin does not disdain parties, but avoids alcohol and sex: with magnificent beauties that fill the juicy, filled with the Renaissance force of the film, he behaves like a friend that provides a vest for girlish tears. Unlike his cousin - beach playboy; Actually, the main intrigue of "Mektuba" - with whom, finally, the Amin will sleep. So far, there is a small spoiler - with no one, but it seems that the new film will not be the second "life of Adele", breaking off on the first chapter, the second one will follow the "song of the first". And this is the only thing that is precisely destined by fate (the Arabic word made into the name-it can be found in the spelling of "maktub"-means fatalism in Islam, the predetermination of everything that exists with Allah): the relations of heroes that meet and part in the rhythm of an endless 24-hour party are free and unpredictable. As well as the style of Keshish. He catches and stops the beautiful moment of the holidays - however, Ophelus, the main character of the film, has time to work on the farm - which gives Keshish a reason for the indescribable, elementary and ingenious scene of the birth of sheep, which, again, observes Amin's lens. In general, in this film is simply - and indescribable words - everything: an ordinary miracle of life; God, as the titer epigraph says, is light.

Frame from the film of Abladetif Keshish "Mektub, my love. The first song"

Alas, the jury, chaired by actress Annette Bening, remained immune to his rays and chose Guillermo del Toro to the winners of the “water form”. It can, of course, compose that in this way the judges evaluated the radicalization of the popular idea of the adoption of another at the turn of the 1980s and 90s: in the Deltor's fairy tale in a new way there is not even the usual contrast of the beauty and monster, both heroes are equally marginal-both the dumb cleaner and the earthly monster; The director of the director was to show the impossible beauty in the relationship of two creatures far from its standards. But, it seems to me, the Bening was simply in a womanly moved by a sentimental and visually spectacular story. In vain, we hoped for her civil literacy (after all, the wife of Levaka Warren Bitty) -Ex Libris , the passionate social statement of Frederick Vaizman, was left with nothing.

But the second most important “Silver Leo”-the Grand Prix of the jury-went to the “Foxtrot” of Samuel Maoza, the absurd tragedy (about the meaninglessness and hopelessness of the war), which produces the impression of a long-overdue paraition. It also looks like a rewarding with a “silver lion” for the directing of the Frenchman Xavier Legrand debuting in full meter. From his “guardianship”, of course, it is difficult to tear yourself away: after a painful divorce, his father - an aggressive cord and a home tyrant - receives the right to meet his son, for the gift that both the boy and the eldest daughter (she is already adulthood, she can’t force her to communicate with the dad), and his ex -wife hate him. It turns out a sort of family thriller made by extremely rude manipulative methods. It is significant that this manipulation is rejected by a conditional simple viewer: the old women actively filling the Venetian halls were not horrified, but laughed. And Legrand, who became famous for a short meter “is not too late” - on the same topic and with the same actors (the heroine Lea Drucker, along with the children, tried to escape from the trite character of Denis Menosh) - can patent Know How: there is Sexploitation, and he develops Domestic Violence-share. It turns out successfully: the jury of debuts with the Frenchman Benois Jaco at the head also chose the “guardianship” by the winner; Well, from the technical side, it is really briskly set and mounted.

The prize for the best script is awarded to Martin McDonah, the author of "three billboards on the border of Ebbing, Missouri." There is nothing surprising, the macdones are an outstanding playwright, but his picture was clearly underestimated: the macdones unobtrusively use the strongest purely cinematic - not theatrical ones - images, and with actors for whom he invented lunch roles, works much thinner than Legrand.

Behind all the disabilities, something terrible and disgusting is certainly lies

Volpi Cups-acting prizes in the main competition-went to the Grand Dame of European Cinema Charlotte Rampling and almost unknown, despite the mature age that came to the cinema from the Palestinian theater Camel El Bash for his role in the Lebanese “insult”. And Rampling plays the title heroine of the Hannah, Italian Andrea Pallaoro, a typical festival product, on which, for example, students of Dmitry Mamulia are guided by us. In such a film, numerous plot gaps are necessarily present - to think up, turning a dramatic dotted line into a line, it is yourself; Behind all the disabilities, something terrible and disgusting is certainly lies. In the case of Hannna, this is pedophilia, in which the arrested husband of the heroine (venerable French actor Andre Wilm) is suspected; This can be guessed by the call of an invisible woman addressing Hannah "as a mother": "Talk to me, my child now urinates in bed." According to the abundance of children around Hannah (all with physical disabilities, like a blind boy in a house where Hannah works a cleaner; a girl with a Down syndrome, whom Hannah gives a dog; or at least with the oddities, like a trio of neighboring boys arranging a flood in an apartment from above, dying in the orange paint of an incomprehensible origin). According to the envelope C, presumably, “dirty” photos that Hannah finds behind the cabinet and disdains disgusting into the garbage tank. By the reluctance of the adult son of Hannah, have any contacts with her parents. Well, according to co -products with Belgium, the flagship of the anti -pedophile movement. I would be such an infinitely prudent, conjunctural movie just canceled. However, it is difficult to object against the awarding of the Great Rampling.

The jury specially received the “cute country” of the Australian Aboriginal Warwick Thornton, a worthy western with luxurious panoramic landscapes and an honest historical note: Thornton talks about the destruction of the indigenous culture of the natives with white conquerors who received their serious psychological injuries on the fronts of the First World War.

And in the competition "Horizons" (the jury was headed by the owner of the Venetian "Golden Leo" for the 1998 film "So they laughed", the Italian director-traditionalist Gianni Amelio) defeated the film, which opened this program, "Nico, 1988", the chronicle of the last three years of life of the singer and the model of the singer, also known as Krista Paffen, lover of Alena Delona (them The illegitimate son of Ari - among the heroes of the film) and Femme Fatale Lou Read (in an interview opening the film, the heroine says how this journalistic stamp was exhausted). Well, I don't know; I can only breed and believe the rumors that the most active member of the jury of “horizons”, the Iranian woman producer Rakshan Banitemad, knocked out two awards (for role and directing) to the Iranian film “Without a Date, without a signature” in exchange for the victory of the film by the Italian director Susanna Nickyarelli. However, Amelio, handing the prize, mentioned not the director, but the actress, the Dange of Trin Dirholm, who played Nico. Dirkholm pedals the moment of its former beauty-by 1986, when the action starts, the heroine deliberately refused her, turning into a groomed puffy heroineist. True, the actress herself never differed in a model appearance, so at this moment it remains only to take her word. Actually, the key information proposed by the film consists in the fact that once Nico was beautiful, but now it only pricks, scandalite and drives around Europe with not very popular tours (retro-environment is diligently diligently, but, for my taste, it is unconvincing). An illegal concert is remembered in the Prague DC: all musicians with eyes that were watery from heroin's breaking (it did not work out drugs in the social camp), Niko Sings, but after the concert, torn by the authorities, runs into Romania-where the day of the dead, for some reason, is under the eighty-eightieth hit of the Alphaville group Big in Japan ". I never knew about the connection of Niko with this branch of pop music, but on the final credits, Dirholm also sings a cover on Big in Japan (all the Cavers of Song Nico also performed dirholm); Perhaps Nikkiarelli made a musicological discovery; Google is silent on this subject.

Finally - about the outcome of Venice, to which we can sincerely applaud. The usual retrospective program here is called the "Venetian classics" for the large festival and is that it is already unusual, competitive. Moreover, the prizes of the jury (this year he was headed by the Italian director Giuseppe Piccioni) are awarded not only to new documentaries about the cinema, but also to restored masterpieces. And in this category, Venice-74 recognized the best “go” and see “Elma Klimova-it turned out a glorious addition to the MMKF gold received by this outstanding anti-war horror in 1985. When Nico was still alive.