Wes Anderson’s new movie was shot in Madrid’s Chinchón town, but nobody said it. His images do not contain a single piece of evidence of this fact, and if it does, it does not matter. His real scene is nothing but the highly stylized universe his cinema has built, and this is As it became a cultural icon and even a meme, it expanded and intensified dangerously.. Presented at the competition in Cannes today, “Asteroid City” is certainly not as overloaded and labyrinthine as the director’s previous work, “The French Chronicle” (2021)., but one like this is so crammed with characters and narrative shots, all not from this planet, and meticulously placed ‘scene’ that each shot can only be admired from afar. No holes to enter.
Most of its filming takes place in a vast American desert during a school competition dedicated to astronomical events.. Impossible as it may sound, this is all but a play split into multiple acts, and Anderson periodically changes the level of reality to show us his preparations and what’s going on behind the scenes in black and white; From time to time, a narrator appears on the screen who interprets both plots in his own words.
The number of characters is several dozen, and almost all of them speak so many and so fast that it is obviously difficult for a normal brain to follow them.. Anderson doesn’t bother to profile them anyway; he prefers to please us with his whimsical compositions and images full of detail, the kind that a living room decorator would want to hang. But the speed with which they follow each other prevents us from admiring them. The verbal and visual flow of information is such that it is literally cinema tired.
Bellocchio vs. Pius IX
Fanaticism of a political or religious nature is one of the main themes in the career of Italian Marco Bellocchio. and he touches on this in his new work, using a case that was said to be vital to the creation of Italy’s modern state. The second of the Palme d’Or nominees announced today, ‘Rapito’ tells the story of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy residing in Bologna who was arrested and kidnapped on the orders of Pius IX in 1858, transferred to Rome and converted to Catholicism. .
Religious officials told his family that they could have the little boy back if they converted to Catholicism, but they refused.. The lawsuit served to solidify the already prevailing view, both in Italy and abroad, that the Pope’s rule over a large area of central Italy was an affront to human rights in the age of liberalism and rationalism, and became the seed of competition. It will result in the loss of Rome by the Papal States. The good thing about recreating Bellocchio’s life is that it manages to retain the dramatic intensity typical of a “tension”; The problem is that he is so concerned with exposing the evil of Pius IX and his followers that he loses his temper. Only the horns and trident are missing from his portrait.