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DA 8: Diary of a rookie who learned accredited to the cat. Day 8

'The Eighth Day', besides being the title of a movie author of French nationality, which led Jaco van Dormael in 1996, is that right now I just live in this increasingly ephemeral festival. Today things have gone couples, and not exactly love stories, but extreme scenarios border relations. Morgen both Romanian and Russian this Summer How I Ended impossible to speak of links and affinities shocking how hard it can be living together when there are feelings or reality through a path strewn with obstacles.

But before analyzing what has given himself this time let me talk a little bit of repoker of Asian directors who have had the privilege of being the first to present their works in this Festival. A Chinese, a Korean, a Thai and two Japanese make up this diverse and eclectic bunch of Asian filmmakers have delighted the respectable with a fresh look and overall complete and incorruptible. Wang Quan'an belongs to the so-called Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema, also known as the urban generation, which also includes such big names as Jia Zhangke or Wang Xiaoshuai. In our country we know it Wedding Tuya (2006), this beautiful story that was set in Mongolia the interior in which a woman with a disabled husband agreed to marry another man under the condition that it deal with both. Apart us now Toguether , a story in which addresses the problem of exiles from China to Taiwan in the 30 who could not return home until fifty years later. For its part, Hong Sang-soo is a director who is supported by the recent award in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival for his film got Hahaha, although most scholars in Asian cinema and it had since a few years ago as the author of reference, with titles as valued as Woman on the Beach , 2006 or Night and Day, 2008. Very recently edited Intermediate a chest with some of his key films: an essential selection by the Catalan director Albert Serra , who is also responsible for introducing Oki's Movie in this Festival. Aditya Assarat has been a real discovery for me, having no references to his film before seeing Hi-So, film that has garnered rave reviews in its passage through the D'A. Assarat had been recognized previously by Wonderful Town, which won including the award for best film at the Pusan \u200b\u200bFilm Festival 2007 and was already in the trauma and emotional wounds that were the Thai people after the disastrous tsunami occurred in 2004. And if the director of Bangkok I was a complete unknown until now, I can not say the same for the two most applause Japanese filmmakers per square meter have collected these days, and both Sion Sono as Takeshi Kitano two authentic teachers, that even the author category they would be very short. Attend a screening of their films is still quite an experience ESP. His film is an uncompromising film, brutal, ruthless when required, although his works are recognizable also humorous that such leaks are true mark of the house. While we wait forward to a new office project Kitano, Sono already got down to work and just finished their penultimate production, Guilty of Romance has already begun to roll Himizu . We hope to see one of these two titles (but two) in both the Festival of Sitges as in the Festival de Cinema d'Author.

Today Friday opened mouth Morgen, one of the last independent production called new wave of Romanian cinema, which still works to raze small gift back in the contests in which presented. Morgen explains the story of a middle-aged man who works as a security guard at the local supermarket Salonta, a small town in the Hungarian-Romanian border which is often common step of all those illegal immigrants trying to cross into Hungary and then go to Western Europe. One day he meets one of these exiles and decides to take him home. Although not able to communicate verbally with him, both just locking a sincere friendship. So simple plot is consistent with a precarious sense of narrative that is reminiscent of the Chilean Giant of Adrian Biniez . We are small details explained by universal aspects, unfortunately, are happening today, such as the rejection of other cultures, corruption in the civil service is a bribe for almost nothing, the blindness of bureaucracy, in short, latent insensitivity purely human problems. Morgen is a film that claimed in a tone lazy and dim the importance of links, issue otherwise very present in other proposals in this Festival. Marian Crisan , Romanian director debut with this film in the field of film, affects the negative messages you receive from the media leads us to see strangers as potential threats to our security.

And if Morgen foreign relations is no less shocking and unusual is the attachment between the two protagonists of the Russian How I Ended this Summer. Input production filmed in the impossible scenario of a polar station situated on a deserted island in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, two hours, and with only two characters were a premise too heavy at this stage of the festival. But the awards made in the last Berlin Film Festival, where reconciliation is the work of two solo performers shared the Best Actor Award encouraged me to venture, and since then I have not left disappointed for nothing. Perhaps the footage is a bit much, and some turn a script into the final stretch of the film may seem a bit forced, but it certainly is a set so original and entertaining. Sergei, the experienced meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, is the will and desire with the vagaries of nature and of man himself to survive in a frozen hell. There are several scenes that are seared into the viewer's retina, as one in which a hungry polar bear tries to put away the poor Pavel, or that one in which imagining the pain and frustration you will feel your older partner when it's a tragic story, the same Pavel is trying by all means extend the confession of the bad news. It is a film of silences and heroes who are dormant waiting to act. One of the best proposals of the Festival, it would not surprise me when the bell rings to announce the final winner of the public.

By the way, has again announced a partial classification of the votes of the audience. On this occasion, the most important developments is the surprise second place Mary and I, the English film which is the subject of autism, and the third position of Argentina Man Next Door another film pairs impossible. After two days of the end, the thing seems to be more acute than ever, but for now the French leadership Small Lies without seems incontestable importance.

Bona nit!

Francisco Nieto

CineAsia

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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

CineAsia