The dangers of blind belief and the fallacy of alternative medicine, Austria Jessica Hausner He has spoken throughout his filmography, but he has never done so with the rudeness he has exhibited in any film before. “Club Zero”. The first of the films nominated for the Palme d’Or was released this Monday.It begins with the arrival of a young teacher (Mia Wasikowska, wasted) at a private institute, who teaches a subject called Conscious Eating and immediately convinces a small group of students of its benefits—for the environment, for the world economy, for the world economy. health, to keep the line – contributes to stop eating.
As disciples of the flat earth sect, the children decide to submit to their guru’s teachings.and no further explanation is needed to clarify where the story goes from here. In any case, instead of moving forward, the film is limited to returning to itself, repeating itself over and over.. Meanwhile, he tries to kickstart the charge of satire against topics like awareness, diet, and environmental fanaticism, elite educational institutions, and of course, wealthy people. All very easy targets, but Hausner’s binoculars are out of focus.
Again, ‘Falling Leaves’, presented in the competition this Monday, is neither more nor less than expected from Aki Kaurismäki’s cinema. Finn’s style is so hermetic and so recognizable that the feature films he releases invite to be understood more as sub-fictions of a single film made of callous and absurd humor mixed with melancholy and pain and influenced by writers, rather than as stand-alone entities. Like Robert Bresson and Jim Jarmusch. It doesn’t make sense to expect an iota of innovation from him at this point, but overall, what does it matter if he’s doing what he does so well?
The film portrays a man and a woman, two beings depressed and punished by a hostile Helsinki. He was fired from all his jobs because he could not stay sober; so lonely that he has to buy a plate and cutlery before inviting someone over for dinner.
Kaurismäki gives them the opportunity to get to know each other, go see a Jarmusch film, share a disastrous dinner, and give themselves a second chance. And without changing his method in the slightest – again, why would he? – and applying it perfectlyconvinces us that even though there is a war in Ukraine and the world is full of soulless people, it’s never too late to meet a dog named Chaplin and a soul mate to ease the loneliness. experience at least in the company.