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DA 7: Journal of accredited rookie who learned to the cat. Day 7

Although in this day we are focusing almost exclusively on films projected comment different sections of the Festival (Address, Asias, Eastern Promises and Authoring Catalan) are a retrospective and a fourth screen that also deserve space because of its importance in the context of the event. In this first year of life D'A recovered by an evocative tribute to his extensive film the figure of the cult Canadian director Guy Maddin . The filmmaker, a descendant of Icelandic but has set up residence in Winnipeg, Manitoba (and who has dedicated one of his latest works, entitled precisely My Winnipeg) is a precedent in our screens. Not even one of his films have been lucky enough to be released during their long career in our bulletin. That is not a filmmaker for everyone is obvious, with proposals as difficult to categorize and analyze, but from that to which we have not had the opportunity to see films that have won awards at prestigious festivals like Sitges International Festival of Fantastic Film Catalunya (where it won the award for best film in its 2002 edition with Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary ) seems something a bit more serious. We must once again congratulate Cinema Festival d'Author (and also the Film de Catalunya, which has helped him so that this retrospective has been a reality) to give voice to artists who do not usually have to express it. The cycle devoted to it is spectacular, eight feature films, three programs of shorts, a short feature film and a documentary about the personality and way of working of the director. You can still see both the Film as in theaters as the aforementioned films Aribau My Winnipeg , Archangel or The Saddest Music in the World . A good opportunity, but the only know the path of a filmmaker fascinating and necessary.

On the other hand, with the invaluable help of online film portal Filmin the D'A offers the opportunity to watch at an affordable price and without moving house some films related to one or the other way with the event. The early works of Aaron Katz (good American indie cinema), the success of Sion Sono Love Exposure (with four hours of amazing footage), the celebrated Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt of , the first -winning film and Cristi Puiu Death of Mr. Lazarescu or the exclusive premiere of the Cannes prize at Sitges and Kinnatay of Brillante Mendoza , you can enjoy for prices ranging between two and three euros .

Let's go to what has given the other day on this Thursday that is already beginning to see on the horizon that any fan of good movies you want, which runs the Festival. Although your body will gradually warning otherwise the accumulated physical fatigue, do not want the time comes to goodbyes. Then get home and realize that there are still 365 days to relive the same feelings, and that's a long time. But let the anticipation away and talk about the two real blow to those who have had the pleasure of attending. Today Latin American cinema has taken on major importance in the projection of three essential titles: the already mentioned in previous days The Next Door Male of Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat , the Argentina also your fault of Anahí Berneri, and the Chilean Post Mortem of Pablo Larraín. The latter two have been my movie menu today, and I can only say that I left the cinema with a horse depression. Both of the other two films are opaque, non-breathable, hard to digest. Although they have nothing to do with them, the injustice that prevails in the first and the unwholesome to breathe in the second you are pressing into the seat until you feel overwhelmed. Anyway go ahead that I have really enjoyed both, and is that not only can go to the movies to have fun, you can also delight feeling conflicting feelings.

A Anahí Berneri the Incarnation discovered in a film in which an actress rundown stand the progressive loss of opportunities in a world where age does not forgive. A Buenos Aires director loves showing stories of strong women of character and face with determination and a touch of bad luck to the avatars that destiny has prepared for them. The star of your fault SUV is a female, has to deal with two real beasts of children while doing housework and even engage in their work. Stored so much tension it causes a small loss of control resulting in an overflow in one of his children are beaten and must be taken to the hospital. From there macho conventions (in the figure of a missing husband who does not forgive his dismissal and a doctor who riddled the mother suffered overwhelming questions) will highlight the nightmarish sense that envelops the whole. The camera sticks to the actors and the maternal instinct is called into question by a continuous succession of close-ups. The woman is always fantastic in the role of invisibility to the resolution of an extreme situation. What a great interpretation of Erica Rivas! (Whom we saw recently in Tetro ).

As for the film Pablo Larraín, also had the opportunity to watch his previous work, Tony Manero, of course unprecedented in our country, and I have to say it's one of my favorite American directors. Post Mortem tells a tragic love story between the gray employee of a morgue and a cabaret set in the 1973 military coup that toppled Salvador Allende. The movie oozes dark and gloomy times. There is a scene where the protagonist is pulling a cart through the halls of the hospital the bodies of protesters killed in cold blood by the army that is brutal. You spend a bit horrible, but what is good and intelligent Larraín to get us headlong into a grim context means a great atmosphere (the production design work is excellent). The images are powerful and very well composed, while the dialogue is so sharp incisors that can be sectioned with the same scalpel was used to perform an autopsy on the bodies. A real pleasure.

And tomorrow the Festival We have reserved two of their promises of the most anticipated: the Russian this Summer How I Ended Alexei of Popogrebski , and Morgen Romanian Marian Crisan of , besides the second pass of Takeshi Outrage Kitano.

Bona nit!

Francisco Nieto

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