Asian cinema turns to look out again for the Festival, just a day where football passions have been a hurdle to have been a good entry all scheduled sessions. But we know that more than two classics thrown Barça-Madrid two Asian films, and respectable has chosen to go to the Nou Camp or stay at home to see family before enjoying a plate of film authorship. In case anyone does not know, the club has been eliminated Real Madrid and play the final of the Champions at Wembley. Congratulations to the Barca fans.
If anyone defined this Cinema Festival d'Author as an event that exhibited a countercinema, today I have seen this in a literal and accurate. You just had to stand on the metro to Plaça Universitat realize that the masses were going to a completely opposite to which I headed. But hey, not that has been in dire and precarious solitude. There are always those to which sport they sound like Chinese and other imperishable not lose a good movie even find Bin Laden dead. These pro moviegoers and is accredited football rookie who spent a while I think we fully successful in our bold choice. In the landings (perfect place to share experiences) commented that he had seen Cold Fish in his first pass last Saturday had been amazed, and Caracremada of Lluis Galter, also deserve a lot of grief. Coincidentally Schedule projection and always with an eye on the bus schedule I had to park the elusive film directed by Sion Sono (and it slipped in the past Festival of Sitges and now I have exactly the same happened again This continues to be one heck it is one of my favorite Asian directors, with the indispensable Suicide Club and Love Exposure to the head) and declined by going to see the Hi-So Thai of Assarat Adytia . Previously I had the pleasure of tasting the Argentina Man Next Door of Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat , Of which I had heard good fellow who had the opportunity to see at the Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Lleida last year, and certainly not disappoint me in any moment.
But go in chronological order, traveling first to the Buenos Aires La Plata more then give us a walk through the crowded Bangkok:
Man Next Door surprised from the first moment because a building is gaining prominence in the story. It is the only building designed by the architect and city planner Le Corbusier in Argentina, known as Curutchet House. Housing is simply spectacular, although installed in a confined space is built between party, which determines a property of a single facade. Worth seeing the film only to have the opportunity to explore every nook and cranny of this unique place. The plot revolves around two diametrically opposed personalities neighbors. Leonardo, an industrial designer and arrogant snob who lives with his wife and teenage daughter, and Victor, an unclassifiable type is dedicated to selling used cars, and that is most vulgar and coarse that you can take in the face. The bottom line is that the neighbor Malcarado want to do some work with invading the territory of the adjoining apartment. This leads to the funniest gags of the function, where the two personalities clash like two freight trains. The work of the two leading actors is superb, a real tour de force of interpretation that appeals from the credits. The tension surrounding these individuals continues for much of the footage, although it is a pity that in the final stretch to deflate the issue after an unsatisfactory outcome in which the tone so far provides a twist so sudden and unnecessary. However, we face one of the Argentine films rounder in recent years, still can recover next Thursday 5 to ten at night in the room Aribau 2.
Hi-So, led Adytia Assarat is a movie where the quiet serenity and charge an absolute role. We are characters in a constant "Lost in Translation" that roam around places devastated. The protagonist, Ananda, just returned from the United States, where he has been studying acting to star in a film about the aftermath of the tsunami in Thailand in 2004. During filming will visit his girlfriend who lives in San Francisco, but they realize what that says bolero "say the distance is forgotten ..." and decide to break their relationship. Ananda intimate with her production assistant, with whom he returns to his childhood home in Bangkok and try to regain some of his past, but realizes that he sees a city that no longer feels connected. Two love stories, one in English and one in Thailand, which function as a mirror but that both are doomed to failure. Hi-So is a film of fleeting, ephemeral encounters between people that separates them significant emotional distance, either by having different languages, belong to different social classes or simply because they belong to diverse cultures. It is a film that talks about the search for identity from being uprooted, and hence become important locations such as hotels and airports, international locations where lost souls can converge.
A highly recommended work for the multitude of readings and substrates that holds far more complex than it may seem for the simplicity of its structure. A little gem that should not go unnoticed in a film, Thai, and not to the potential to surprise, especially with regard to independent film is concerned.
And so ends this Tuesday in a festival now in its Ecuador. Tomorrow, if we are experiencing stormy weather permitting, we will go to the swift appointment with this newspaper, which, why not say so, and I'm taking care.
Bona nit!
Francisco Nieto
CineAsia
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