write the record of this fourth day of the Festival as I await the arrival of night bus has to drive me home. The main advantage of going to an event like this I catch you near where you live is the inestimable savings in spending on hotels and apartments, although it is true that you lose a bit of experience the ambience of a festival, and if it catches you up at work, as much the worse!. Film festivals have to enjoy butt (well, everyone should be aware of where their limitations), it can unless you missed this film by accumulated fatigue or obligations number turned out to be the awesome movie of the event, and that is also a Chinese-Malay that you will not see in your life released in your country, and do not is forced to jugártela Russian roulette with Sinde Law and tried searching the web for a good Samaritan who has had the details of hanging. I do not wish to discuss the problem of piracy because I would leave my side buccaneer, and is not that, but how sad is that we love the cinema minority, those who enjoy the works of directors with three mandarins and two saucers Chinese are capable of pure gold thread on the screen, we see relegated to stay with the crumbs from the big industry. Business or Art? Why have to be mutually exclusive terms? Anyway, I do not want to depress the parish, because we always be adventurous and the organizers of this Film Festival d'Author that will remove sky and mountains to get to pave the way for such works, of course, have plagued the spines. I remember some years ago have been to the Festival de Guadarrama (which nobody remembers sure if it has ever been reported), where a single person, Juan Manuel Cote , fought with bigwigs and top brass to bring good arthouse to a place where all that existed were holidaymakers and locals saw with little intellectual mood. I do not know how the man could ride it, but every year projected Egyptian films, Argentinean, Chinese, Korean ... and you heard him speak in the presentations and feels the passion he felt for the film.
Today programming is presented a little short on Asian cinema is concerned. To be exact did not include any films from there. But if you look at the two titles I chose it as a menu for Monday connections to the film universe have been East-evident: a documentary made by a Catalan director who has the Asian element very much present in his work and a feature film shot in the desert of Kazakhstan. Isaki Lacuesta, director of the documentary Night just not, is a unique filmmaker who just months ago held a correspondence in the form of films with the Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase ( The Mourning Forest) . These small pieces, accompanied by an epilogue shot in Banyoles, were exhibited at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. The letters of showed Lacuesta your intimate side, while the letters which restores the Japanese are a mirror of the new era that began Kawase after the birth of his son. The filmmaker was born in Girona presented at the Festival de Cinema d' Author the document dedicated to the figure of Ava Gardner Night not just based on the book Life drink written by Marcos Ordóñez . The film is included in the section Authoring Catalan 2010, a handful of native works produced at the end of last year's young filmmakers who represent the most expensive independent film made in Catalunya ( Sublime Life, Blog, Caracremada, Mary and I and documentary takes us up this attractive cycle). director Cravan vs or Cravan The Condemned tells of a woman who came to shoot in Spain and how their contact with an alien world to Hollywood got frauds mutate the character in person. Exploring different formats and converting the few recorded events of this time in a workshop of experimentation where direct witness interviews occur at the time, priceless images of a Costa Brava to the time where Ava moved to film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman , Node images ... all of them to serve as an exercise in demystifying an actress who went from being an object handled by the major studios (this bizarre marriage to Mickey Rooney and subsequent divorce to be feeding his fame femme fatale) the applicant for Carmen myth, with their love affairs with various patriotic bullfighters. A fascinating game of mirrors that shows the talent of a filmmaker who runs the metacine as anyone.
The second feature of the program was Russia's proposed double Wild Field (DIKO Pole, 2008). The film recounts the misadventures of a doctor (with a striking resemblance to the tennis player Novak Djokovic ), which is responsible for dealing with a few scattered locals in a steppe desert that very well could be the end of the world. Safely is not the best movie seen so far (although in another event with a highlight at least under). Lack some depth in the characters (especially in the secondary) and the script progresses too forced marches, with delusions to the magical realism that does not help the cohesion of the relative. Anyway, Wild Field belongs to a class of jobs I attracts a lot at festivals. I hope they are rarely large, but I see less for their stories or their formal innovations for the opportunity they provide to people you can see a part of the world that otherwise would not know how we would know ( Tulpan would be another example such recent movies.) And in this respect the proposal complies perfectly, with spectacular photography noteworthy. film is invisible becomes visible through the expertise of some programmers who never tire of reverence.
And here the record of the fourth day of D'A 2011. Mañana el repertorio incluye la película argentina El Hombre de al Lado y la tailandesa Hi-So , a la que tengo muchas ganas de echarle el guante.
Bona nit!
Francisco Nieto
CineAsia
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