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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 8, 2023 0:09:43 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 9, 2023 1:59:20 GMT
About Michel Franco. I will be sincere, I have never watched one of his films. A review just said “he was Mexican Michael Haneke” and probably that’s the reason why. They aren’t easy filmmakers! I have watched Haneke films, of course, but you have to be just psychologically prepared to do it! Lol I mean he is a great filmmaker and I really like his films and I really want to watch Franco’s movies, too but I know it wouldn’t be an easy ride and they are slightly more difficult to find than internationally famous Haneke so they are extra inaccessible! You have to be prepared but also make an extra effort to find them in the first place!
Having said that, I also hate how he is treated in Mexican social media! They just hate him! Apparently because he is a “White Mexican” whatever that it is but probably it’s more because he is Jewish! (By the way, there is the possibility that Mexico not just will have its first female president next year but also its first Jewish one! She is awful! But the part about her being a woman and Jewish is kinda cool! Lol Her main rival is also a woman and half Indigenous but she actually has a much fairer skin than the woman with European ancestors and that’s why those identitarian terms like Whitemexicans are silly and why the American culture doesn’t have sense here. People are just too mixed. Of course, racism exist but it’s different than in the USA). His film was very warmly received today but he is already being attacked and apparently foreigners are very stupid for acclaim him! I just hope he wins a big award tomorrow!
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 9:18:46 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 10:01:42 GMT
Not a critic (he writes for AW)but watchs lots of movies and goes to festivals. About Michel Franco
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 10:22:44 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 9, 2023 10:40:55 GMT
For what I read it’s not so brutal and nihilistic as most of his movies but it still has a very complex theme that surely would be hated by people who think the world is black and white: it’s about a nurse who befriends a man who she thinks was her abuser when they were teenagers. He has some mental health issues so he actually can’t remember anything and you don’t exactly know which are her intentions towards him. If she wants revenge or sincerely helps him.
Actually, I already read a few comments of people horrified by the movie. And probably that’s the issue with a lot of his films, there are a lot of people who just think cultural products are guides of how you must live and/or moral stories that should teach people what it’s right and what it’s wrong. If they see something complex and difficult, they just think it’s something evil and everyone involved with it, is evil, too!
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 11:02:08 GMT
Metacritic is so biased! The different # of reviews between US films and others, some "critics go to Venice just for the oscars. The only exceptions are Lanthimos,Oscar winner, and Larrain, who was much in the conversation for Jackie and Spencer. From AW 94 - Poor Things (22 reviews) 84 - Priscilla (21 reviews) 83 - Green Border (7 reviews) 81 - Maestro (20 reviews) 81 - Evil Does Not Exist (9 reviews) 81 - The Beast (8 reviews) 74 - Ferrari (18 reviews) 74 - The Promised Land (7 reviews) 72 - The Killer (21 reviews) 72 - Origin (12 reviews) 71 - El Conde (17 reviews) 59 - Finally Dawn (6 reviews) 43 - Comandante (6 reviews) 37 - DogMan (10 reviews)
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 11:09:37 GMT
Russian poll final rankings:
Poor Things - 8 Hors saison - 7.3 The Killer - 6.7 Ferrari - 6.5 Green Border - 6 The Beast - 5.8 Evil Doesn't Exists - 5.8 Memory - 5.8 Commandante - 5.5 DogMan - 5.1 Io capitano - 4.8 El Conde - 4.7 Lubo - 4.7 The Theory of Everything - 4.6 Priscilla - 4.4 Maestro - 4.3 Kobieta z - 4.2 Bastarden - 4 Enea - 3.7 Holly - 3.6 Adagio - 3 Origin - 3 Finalmente l’alba - 2.7
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 9, 2023 11:17:59 GMT
A link to watch (local time) ore 18.00 Red carpet della serata di chiusura ore 19.00 Cerimonia di premiazione dell'80 Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica ore 20.30 Conferenza stampa delle giurie dell'80. Mostra ore 21.10 Conferenza stampa dei premiati www.labiennale.org/it/cinema/2023/streaming
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 9, 2023 11:39:44 GMT
Also Larrain movie will be on Netflix and it’s kinda seen as an Oscar contender by a few even when it wasn’t selected by Chile for the Best Foreign Film category. I actually saw American award pundits angry at Chile’s selection committee for it! Lol They didn’t knew anything about the actual selected film (The Settlers was acclaimed at Cannes this year!) and haven’t watched El Conde yet because it was before the festival!
Lanthimos Is, obviously, an Oscar contender. There were still some interesting comments by award fanboys saying they didn’t cared too much for the movie because the book was very disturbing and the Academy would not like and maybe they are right but that’s a shitty reason to not care for a movie!
By the way, OT, but did you see that Wim Wenders’ new movie was selected by Japan! I found that very fascinating! It’s apparently the first ever film directed by a non-Japanese to be selected by the country for the Oscar. I saw an American very angry about it because they wanted Hayao Miyazaki and how dare them to go for a German instead?! (again, probably without watching the films!) But I wondered about my country because I was sure there were a few foreigners. I mean there was Luis Buñuel but he actually become a Mexican citizen so he shouldn’t count, right? Well, I quickly count 10 films by international filmmakers here! Lol Mostly Spanish and Chilean but the interesting part is that if you see the years, it’s clear that there was a context: they were refugees! In the 1940s and 1950s, there were the artists fleeing from Franco’s Spain. Buñuel was one of them. And then in the 1970s, there were the South Americans fleeing from dictators like Pinochet and Videla. Spanish refugees also frequently went for the citizenship so they are officially Mexicans. I guess, some of them were already internationally recognized so were a good bet for an international competition. The most recent case is Tatiana Huezo with two very recent films. She born in El Salvador and, by the way, is a brilliant filmmaker so we win!
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