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DA 9: Daily learned rookie accredited to the cat. Day 9

Penultimate day festival that runs off our hands and penultimate daily writing of D'A . I can only begin to have a strange sense of sadness progressive face of what is discerned as implacable end of a week of your dreams. What movie buff inveterate not enjoy two daily sessions of good movies in perpetuity. Well, in that we have lived the illusion that we could enjoy the first edition of a competition, which can already be said, has been remarkably high its coming-out (there is always some fringe to shore, but in general has been a event worthy of applause from all.) But today is still not a day of conclusions, but to rush all the good suggestions we have yet seen. Whoever approaches this past weekend at the festival that you know you can find a delight in 3D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams of Werner Herzog, the film that just opened the Documenta Madrid 2011 and that introduced into the caves of Chauvet, France, which hold the oldest known cave paintings to date, 30,000 years hidden under rocks. Also, and pulling a little for home, you can enjoy on their second pass in the festival of films Asian Oki's Movie , Hi-So and Apart Toguether , although if the likes shooting more for the language cinema Hispanic Post Mortem will be screened and your fault. The film that closes the first edition of the Festival de Cinema d'Author, The Strange Case of Angelic of Manoel de Oliveira can be seen in special session Saturday to eight-thirty Sunday morning at six-thirty in the afternoon.

is certainly the first time I'm going to talk about a film director who has already served more than 100 years. I think if a person at that age still have the ability to get behind a camera to tell a story can be filmed anything bad said about him. And if not, I invite everyone who reads it will make the hypothetical question of what we are doing here if we reach the centenary? In my case I assume that the lucidity and clairvoyance will have vanished completely, forty years because things are going well, well ... Well

recently celebrated 102 years with Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira filmed this The Strange Case of Angelic (2010), and do not believe we're talking about his will on film. The Methuselah of active filmmakers already preparing their new album, is titled A Igreja do Diabo , which will star Fernanda Montenegro and Ricardo Climb. The film in question, the actress who heads the cast acting is our Pilar López de Ayala, who occasionally abandons his career to act more commercial orders considered authorial filmmakers, as happened a few years ago when he made In City of Sylvia of José Luis Guerin . This gives life (or rather gives death) to a girl from a village wine from Portugal who has just died. Isaac ( Ricardo Climb ) is a photographer with a mysterious past who receives an unusual request in the middle of the night to photograph the defunct to get capture the essence of the beauty of a face that is about to disappear. The powerful film stands in silent meditation master the fine line between present and past, and between this world and the next. Even after carrying half a century making movies, Oliveira still willing to take risks and explore issues that the other directors are not even raised. The film, admittedly, is slow noses, scratching the excess limit contemplata, but there is so much love and poetry in what we are told that you can forgive the surplus of hieratic and parsimony that slows the development of plot . A different film, as seems more suited to another time (we will not now ask for the impossible, and Oliveira is to film extreme action movies), but softens and leaves you feeling that eyes are deep with technological advances in cinema have been dissipating and disappearing.

Moreover, the Finnish Bad Family of SALMENPERÄ AleKxi , may have been one of the weakest films seen during the festival. Backed by the production of Aki Kaurismaki has little to do with the movies of famed Finnish director, characterized by providing an intense film that is absent here. There may be some aspects of Scandinavian culture that we may miss, but the truth is that it is a film that no one wanders in field between the sitcom, the family drama and even dares to filirtear with gore. The story introduces us to a judge who, we assume as a matter of professional fault, try to maintain order and the concert at home. Then appears on the scene the daughter of his recently deceased ex-wife, who routinely alter the entire family peace unpredictably. Bad Family directly addresses the issue of dysfunctional family and his inner tragedies, mostly caused by ineffective communication among its members. The problem is that the drawing of the characters is too inconsistent, lacked the force necessary for us to show interest in their fortunes, and there is nothing in themselves it may seem relevant. Nor help saturation close to the principal seems to be referring to teachers as Bergman or Dreyer . Although it may be an effective remedy to represent inner emotions, here fails to meet its target because it is used with due restraint. In short, a proposal as expressionless as the face of its protagonist, who, with his dark look is the one who conveys some emotion to the whole soulless.

plays farewell And tomorrow, we know the film that finally has the upper hand and still have time to comment on a couple of films more: Apart Toguether China U.S. and Cold Weather .

Bona nit!

Francisco Nieto

Cineasia