The main premieres of Venice-2022

The Venetian festival competes with Cannes for the place of the main show of artistic cinema in the world. But it seems that the Mostra intends, engaged in cinema art, to respond to political challenges of fiery 2022. What is interesting for the coming film festival?

Context

At a press conference, the artistic director of the Festival Alberto Barber spoke about the tragedy of Ukraine, that in Turkey and Iran they were pursuing filmmakers: Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasulof and Mostaf Aleahmad, and about the unprecedented pressure to the festival of this year. Is it too surprised that there are no Russian paintings in the competition.

Iranian master Jafar Panahi - among the participants in the competition. In his tape “without bears” two love stories are woven. Lovers have to overcome superstitions and obstacles built by the state. Actually, like Panahu himself, who makes a movie secretly from the authorities and each time finds ways to forward his paintings to international festivals.

In Argentina, 1985, Santiago Mitra (Paulina), the lawyer and the prosecutor dare to sue the authorities of Argentina, accusing them of crimes against citizens. The picture is based on real events and is inspired by the history of prosecutors Hulio Strasser and Luis Morino Okampo, who decided to pursue the criminal military dictatorship of Argentina in court. Young lawyers, risking themselves, challenge the indestructible Goliaf - military junta. Here is the roar of the courtroom, and emotions are hotter than in a football match. The 1985 trial forced Argentine justice to admit and consider the scandalous lawsuit.

Another dock by Sergey Loznitsa is the “Kiev process”. At the basis of the shooting of the so -called Kyiv Nuremberg, one of the high -profile post -war trials, where German Nazis and collaborators were held accountable. In case No. 1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders in the RSFSR”, 15 criminals appeared before the court, whose actions were later recognized in Nuremberg “crimes against humanity”. Loznitsa is an invaluable archival chronicle and old documentaries in charge of installation and sound solution. He reconstructs the key points of the trial, in particular the statements of the defendants, the testimony of the survivors of Auschwitz and the tragedy of Babi Yar. “I came across the forgotten personnel of the Kyiv process of 1946 when I worked on archival research for the project” Babi Yar. Having gained access to this unique material, as powerful as Eichmann's famous films, I decided to make a film in which the whole process is reproduced, ”says the director. He takes us to a booming hall of the court, we hear the breath of the crime witnesses, the cough of the“ spectators ”, the knock of the steps of guard - as if we were watching what is happening from a place of a public gallery.

Outside the contest, the film is a native of Russia, the Israeli-American director Evgeny Athenaevsky “Winter in fire: the struggle of Ukraine for freedom” about protests on the Kiev Maidan of Independence. Records from the scene, interviews with protesters.

Ukrainian fiction - outside the main competition. Luxembourg, Luxembourg Antonio Lukich is a comedy in the spirit of Emir Kusturitsa. The film is inscribed in the general festival theme "Family discord - inside social discord." The author of the phenomena -popular film of 2020 “My Tychian Thoughts” tells the story of the twins. The brothers learn that the father, who threw them in childhood, dies in the distant Luxembourg. One of the sons decides to visit him, the other prevents this trip as much as possible. For nothing that “the same face” is quite antagonists. One is a policeman, the other is a minibus driver; One is inclined to order, the other sows chaos, one sincerely wants to restore relations with his father, the other is categorically against. Yes, and mom promises her son in Luxembourg a meeting with a “broken trough”: “Where are you, mom in Luxembourg saw broken troughs?” Lukich in an interview admitted that his twins, like two halves of his “I”. And now these materialized halves are rushing along the screen, terribly quarreling and reconciling with each other.

“Innociality” is a documentary about the death and suicide of the young in the Israeli army, as it turned out, this is an important and silent problem in society. Militarized identity requires the destruction and distortion of delicate lines of childhood. “Each war is based on the betrayal of the parents of his children,” says director Guy Davidi. “But in a militarized society, even the most freedom -loving parents are not able to protect their sons and daughters.”

Doc Oliver Stone “Nuclear” is an investigation into the connection of American intelligence services with the threat of atomic war, about a long-term PR campaign financed by oil interests. This campaign is designed to sow fear of harmless low -level radiation, mix the concepts of “nuclear weapons” and “nuclear energy”, although the boundaries between these areas are already erased in the current militarized world.

Art

From the moment the Cannes review has quarreled with the largest Netflix online service, such works of art as the Black and White Roma of the Oscar of the Oscar Alphons Koaron are flowing into Venice and even become triumphs of the festival marathon.

There are many hackneyed myths about each of the main cums. For example, the "Union" says that it avoids acute -social topics. Although the story itself connected the fate of a 90-year-old film forum and a policy in one knot. The birth of the festival coincided with the representation of the doctrine of Mussolini, who claimed: "The iron logic of nature will exalt the strong over the weak." Then the festival became one of the many “battles” of the Duche - along with the “Battle of Grain”, “Battle of Birth”.

The ideology of fascism confidently rejoiced over Mostroy. Leni Rifenshtal rim of the “triumph” of the will, and since 1940, only countries of the fascist alliance participated in the festival. Only after the war, the bridge came out of isolation, having begun to give the awards of a work of art without the pressure of ideology. Having survived the battles of Archaic and Modern, the festival chose art as a measure of comprehension of the modern world in all its contradictory. Cinema as a way to hear a lonely human voice in the white noise of today.

The tragicomedy of the American Noah Baumbak, which opens the shows, is called “White noise” and was removed by Netflix Streaming. Professor Jack Gladney heads the Department of Hitler's Stolleries in College-on-Kholm. Actually, he created Nazi in North America in the revolutionary sixty -eighth. Teachers studying Hitler's Heritage-New York emigrants, gang-looking dodgers, obsessed with cinema and meaningless trifles. To his horror, Gladni discovers eco -catastrof near the house: a leak of a pesticide, and a cloud of toxic gas flies right over his head ... For the layman, grandiose disasters - they look like an acid rain that corrodes his favorite pillow. The author connects together family conflicts with ideological injuries and cacophony of the modern world, in which advertising, war and acid rains are cohabited. It is curious that the Hitlerologist does not know the German language, so he is terribly afraid of revelations at the upcoming conference. Fear turns into his second "I". He is afraid of leaks of a toxic gas of a catastrophic scale. And the next family collapse. But most of all death ... a man with a loop of fear on his neck is played by the favorite of Baumbak Adam Driver. The second main role went to Grete Gerwig, the very one that shot two wonderful paintings “Little Women” and “Lady Bird”. “White noise” is a film adaptation of the famous novel of the inventive postmodernist Don Dello, the modern classic of American literature.

Unlike its festival brothers, Venice pleases the audience with a show of the best mini-series. This year, the cult Epic “Kingdom” of Lars von Trier, one of the emblematic television series in history along with Twin Pixes, is returned to the screens.

The final five episodes come out under the name “Kingdom. Exodus". They had to wait for more than a quarter of a century, and it is symbolic that in the era of the leadership of the platforms it is the series that turns out to be the central event of the Film Festival.

History unfolds in a hospital in Copenhagen, located on an old swamp, otherworldly and earthly forces are in contact. They are caught from the darkness of the "Danish kingdom" a documentary. The film is a mix of horror, black comedy and mysticism. Ghosts and demons exist next to real patients and doctors. Vuduist magic - with treatment protocols. In the final of each series, the author and Demiurge himself, who created the mythology of the “Kingdom”, Lars von Trier commenting on what is happening before our eyes. Parodizing and bilely ridicuating the divers, the director admits to them love.

Family - only crystal society

This exalted definition belongs to the pen of Victor Hugo, who himself experienced stormy novels and suffered from family strife, in particular, his parents parted due to political views.

Most festival paintings trace the unobvious ties of public tectonic shifts and family: with rivers of tears invisible to the world.

The holder of the Golden Venetian lion (for the “Wrestler”) Darren Aronofsky will present the adaptation of the play by Samuel D. Hunter “ Kit” about the painfully cloud-user, who is trying to restore relations with the 17-year-old daughter, whom he threw in his youth because of his lover. Hunter (“Great Clemants”), the laureate of the MacArthur Prize, who turned his play into the script, admitted that this story is purely personal for him: “The adaptation of my play in the script was the real work of love for me, and I am very grateful that she will have a chance to reach a wider audience. I have been a fan of Darren since I saw a Requiem for a Dream, when I was a freshman of college and wrote my first plays, and how I am grateful to him for bringing his exceptional talent and his vision. ”

The hero suffering from obesity (he weighs 270 kg) and loneliness plays the completely unrecognizable Brendan Fraser (“mummy returns”), and his daughter is the star of “very strange deeds” Sadie Sink. For Freiser, whose popularity was on the 1990-2000s, this is a return to a large screen in the main, tragic role. Recall that Aronofski returned to the screen and Mickey Rurrka for the role of the ex-star of the ring in the “Westler” (2008).

Another contender for the gold of Venice Alejandro Gonzalez injarita (Birdman, Survivor) will present the picture “Bardo, or the false chronicle of a handful of truths” . Gonzalez called it "a nostalgic comedy against the backdrop of an epic journey." She is about the Mexican journalist and documentary director, who returns to his homeland in order to overcome the existential crisis, to deal with her identity. He decides to plunge into a well of memoirs, reflecting on the history and present of the country. “My hero is looking for answers in his past,” says the director, “to come to terms with who he is in the present.” Netflix acquired the rights to distribute the film. “Bardo” is another autobiographical film by Injarrit, shot in Mexico, which will inevitably be compared with Roma. I hope it will be more affordable than Alfonso Koarona. A large -scale advertising company will provide Netflix power.

The “couple” of the great American documentary Frederick Weissman (“Exlibris: New York Library”), the winner of the Oscar for merits to the cinema, the Golden Leo “For life achievements”, the three-time owner of Emmy will talk about the difficult relations of Leo Tolstoy and Sofia Tolstoy. Cancel Culture does not concern geniuses. Weisman roots go to the Russian Empire, from where his ancestors emigrated. The director has been living in Paris for a long time, and in 2020 he spent two years without a break there. Then he came up with a picture of his beloved writer. In his career, this is the second phenomenon (before that there was “The Last Letter” based on the works of Vasily Grossman). The new work is inspired by little -known fragments from the correspondence of Leo Tolstoy with his wife Sophia.

The “son” of Florian Zeller, the final part of the trilogy about family relationships (“mother”, “father”, “son”) with Hugh Jackman and Lara Durn in the main roles. The hero of the picture is a 17-year-old teenager Nicholas, suffering from depression due to a divorce of parents. Zeler prefers to make a movie according to his plays (“Father” was awarded Oscars for the best adaptive script). Again, the drama of the family trying to reunite after the collapse. In the life of Peter (Hugh Jackman), an ex-wife appears with an uncontrollable tinja son, as it turns out, a clever manipulator. In his cinema about family ties, which are not always crossing love, Zeler asks the question: is it possible to fix the mistakes of the past in the present? In addition to Jackman, Laura Dern and Anthony Hopkins are shot in the film.

The abandoned children are an end -to -end theme of the competition, it seems, the current generation makes claims to the “fathers”, leaving them in the possession of the absurd, torn by the bloody contradictions of the world.

Horror Luke Guadaninino “entirely” about the journey of two young people (Timothy Shalam, Taylor Russell) living during the collapse of society. An adolescence abandoned in adolescence hopes to find his father. Otherwise, how can she understand why she constantly wants to kill and devour the people with whom she has a strong emotional connection. On the way to Maren, a young cannibal Lee joins. The strong feeling that arose between them awakens an unhealthy apetite even more. Canibral horror-I hope nevertheless that this is a black comedy-shot according to the novel by Camille d'andlis.

Even the completely spectator “blonde” - Netflikov Bayopic Marilyn Monroe, removed by Andrew Dominic, explores how exactly children's injury controls, conducts fate. The story of an unwanted daughter, who will become the most welcome woman in the world, ”was created on the basis of Joyce Carol Outs.

The role of the diva of all times and peoples is played by Ana de Armas. The director describes his picture as “the tragedy of the unconscious”: “This is a film for unloved children from all over the world, as if a“ citizen of Kane ”and“ a frantic bull ”had a daughter.”

The absence of Russian cinema will partially be replenished by the Kazakhstan Goliath Adilkhan Yerzhanova with Dmitry Chebotarev and Alexander Revenko (a joint production of Kazakhstani companies Short Brothers and Changepoint and Russian All Media). Noir on a burning theme: about the nature of the authorities, which at its discretion executes or has mercy.

Let me remind you that at the last festival in the main competition was the artistic social anti -utopia “Captain Volkonov” Natasha Merkulova and Alexei Chupov. About the Stalinist ghouls and about the past that crossed the road to the future. The fate of the picture in the Russian rental is covered with darkness.