Almodovar, Malik and wild geese

Review of films applying for gold in Cannes

After the show “Pain and Glory” of Almodovar (however, like the works of Lawch, Jarmusha, Malik, Inan), critics were divided into admiring and disappointed. The latter expected another almodovar. Energy, neon artistic Madrid, explosive unpredictable relations. But starting with the “flower of my secret”, “talk to it”, the director is increasingly immersed in existential thoughts, into thin settings of human relations. It seems that Almodovar did not plan to “surprise”. Creates its self -portrait as an intimate recognition with the prohibitive degree of sincerity.

Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is an alter almodovar, a famous director, hypochondriac, experiencing a creative crisis. Turning away from a professional career, realizing that without filming life has lost its meaning. Founded gray hair, extravagant clothing, an apartment of the Madrid intellectual (part of the filming took place at home with the director). In the Cinematics, his restored film “ Sabor” , which brought glory three decades ago, should show. He is looking for the star of the film by Alberto Kopo, now a drug addict with experience, hoping to introduce him to the viewer. He meets his long -standing lover, now a happy father and husband. He enters the cold fast waters of the childhood river.

This is a secret journey with all the zigzags of the opening of the world: awakening desire, self -awareness. “Where the mother is young” (Penelope Cruz) in the village of Paterna washed with soap lingerie and hung snow -white sheets on green coastal bushes. There remained hopes devastated by religious education. There are cinemas that "smelled of urine and summer breeze." And only the conversations with the mother, who have long gone, continue endlessly (the heartbreaking and ironic game of the Hulit of Serrano in the role of the aging old mother).

Glory was almost forgotten, but the pain is relevant: depression, spine, migraine, loneliness. All life has turned into painful sensations.

A native of a large village family of the era of the Francsky stagnation, the flagship of Spanish cinema admits to reporters: "I myself can’t say that in my movie is true that there is no." He mixes the imagination with biographical facts. And it seems that this recognition needs him himself. Yes, and Banderas transforms in Mallo with such a spiritual message and tact, as if telling to himself. About your fear of old age, your childhood, their disappointments.

On the surface, a comparison with the film “Eight and a half”, especially since the director gives a link: the Fellini's film poster hangs in the office of the assistant salvador, now directed by Nanny Moretti. But in the thin vibrations of the baroque, reflecting cinema, the intonations of the Chekhovsky "Uncle Vanya", beloved authors are equally important: from Coctea to Wuyar. And the "Book of Axiety" of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. The hero quotes Pessoa: "I find life unpleasant, like a useless medicine." But Almodovar offers his hero not the expulsion from paradise of the past, his journey into the past is a way of reconciling with himself, the opportunity to breathe. Perhaps the palm branch, which the director still did not have, would reconcile him with reality.

“Lake of Wild geese” is a new work of the sixth generation of Chinese cinematography by Diao Inan. I remember how his “black coal, thin ice”, who won the gold of Berlin, has frapped international criticism. And again, his corporate identity: a criminal action movie with elements of melodramatism and noir.

Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) - a closed gangster who has come out of prison. Pursuing the needlemen of motorcycles with accomplices, he accidentally kills the policeman. Now, the entire police of a multimillion -dollar city hunts for him, bleeding blood, paramilitary forces are connected. Inan loves to juggle genre cliches. Here are all the signs of Nuar, thriller and melodrama (the director clearly reviewed and “they live at night”, and “Lady from Shanghai”). Next to the hero Fam-Fatal, a prostitute Lyu Aiai, who either saves, or is going to hand over his police and get a ransom of 300,000 yuan.

The whole film is a dizzying chase. Director is generous with the attractions, like the murder of an umbrella. Or acute wire that cuts off the head. Or shooting among a crowded dance in the square to the music "Rasputin": dancing - in LED sneakers. Behind the dashing history is the gloomy landscape of the province of modern China, where poverty is adjacent to crime, and the police in pursuit of one bandit are ready to shoot a dozen innocent residents.

Tarantino came to the premiere of the film, as it turned out, a fan of Inan. In the finale, I clapped for a long time. I think I discovered a lot of finds and gags for myself.

The “Secret Life” of Terrens Malik is a dedication to the spiritual feat of Franz Jaherstetter. The Austrian farmer during the Second World War refused to take the oath to Hitler. He did not serve the Wehrmacht, even when he was called up. In 1943 he was executed.

It begins with the chronicle. German and Austrian peoples in hot enthusiasm welcome the Fuhrer. The film is divided into two large parts. The first is Austria's bicolic landscapes, too beautiful to be tarnished by war. The hero’s sailor text is about how they lived under the clouds at the foot of the Alps. His family, the beloved wife of Fani (Valerie Pachner), a harsh mother, angels-daughter. The leisurely painting of a difficult idyll of farmer life in the village of Ragegugen. Winter, spring, summer ... Alien war. For what? No one except Franz asks this question. You have to be with your country!

And only Franz (August Dil) is tormented by doubt: “How can you kill strangers to you? Invade other countries? Destroy buildings that you were not building? "

But even the local priest calls him to "fulfill the duty to the Fatherland." Franz rests: "If the leaders of the country turn into devils, to serve faithfully to the devil?"

The second half of the film is more gloomy. Tegel prison, Nazi mockery of prisoners. And the stoicism of Franz, who does not even agree to a condescending proposal to go to an alternative service in the Third Reich. In parallel installation, these scenes alternate with the everyday life of Fani, who continues to cultivate the ground, clean the well, look after the children. Outcast, expelled by the whole village. For Malik in a film built on the inner dialogue of the husband and wife, hiding from each other, the hardships who support each other are two equal heroes.

In this statue meditative picture based on real history, a poetic look prevails over facts. Franz promises Fani to build a nest for them high on trees. The image permeated with light in the spirit of the Austrian landscapes of the 19th century. The light does not leave the film even in prison: it moves along the battered wall of the camera. And the music from the film practically does not leave. The famous Hollywood composer James Howard unites Bach's works (“Passion in Matthew”), Beethoven, Handel, Goretski, Pyurt and Schnita into a single composition.

Malik does not deepen into the religious background of the acts of the hunter (who joined the Franciscan Order). He slowly plunges into the inner world of his hero, tries to build his emotional motivation, the spiritual architecture of the “secret life”. Both the author and the hero are wondering: what is the difference between the trials that fell upon you and the trials that he chose to himself?

The tribunal of the Third Reich will sentenced Franz to execution. Pedantic Germans observe all external attributes of the rule of law in relation to the Austrian subject. He will even call him a confidential conversation by the judge (recently departed by Bruno Ganz), alarmed by stupid stubbornness: “You cannot change the course of the war alone?” And the pedantic Germans will thoroughly wash the floor, after each fall of the guillotine blade.

This innermost (although not without pathos, and covered up to three hours) of the oratorio - about the relics of inner strength and love, which, yes, is not stronger than the dictatorship ... But the wheel of history eventually spins not only by the efforts of the Moloch. The name of the film Malik was borrowed from the novel "Middlemarch" George Eliot:

“The growing good of the world depends on non -global historical actions. You should thank people who sincerely lived a hidden life and rested in invisible tombs for the fact that you and me today are not as bad as it could have. ”

On the day of the “secret life” show, Alena Delon was awarded with a gold palm for his contribution. Thierry Fremo said that the actor is not afraid to be a loner, he is not afraid to be unloved and uncomfortable: "Nevertheless, the festival is always on the side of the artist." Delon walked with difficulty, his daughter helped him. He said that it would be brief, it is difficult to hold back the tears: “It's hard to leave, but alas, I'm already leaving. And I want to say thank you all! "

After the award, his best film "Monsieur Klein" Joseph Lawsi showed. Ironically, the picture of Lawsi is about the exact opposite of Franz Jaherstetter. The hero of Delon is trying to comfortably adapt to the occupation by the fascists of Paris, the Jewish genocide is not his problem. But the abyss itself will suck him, as you do not turn away from it.