Maybe it’s coincidence The last film in the filmography of Ken Loach – it has announced its withdrawal several times in the past, but this time it looks serious – it will be the last of this year’s Palme d’Or contenders to appear at Cannes, but most likely not.
For the festival, of course, to postpone the world premiere as much as possible. “Old Oak” -one day before the awards ceremony this Saturday- be also A way to delay retirement joined by a very special bond. With this year’s Loach, 17 entries will be added to the competition and won Twice Palme d’Or. And the best thing that can be said about the movie—because given the circumstances, a good thing has to be said—is that it fits perfectly with most of the previous films.
It takes place in a town in the north of England. He thinks about how coexistence in society, hit hard by the economic crisis, is being tested. arrival of a group of Syrian refugees. Most of the action takes place in: an old pub Photographs of proletarian struggles hang on its walls in two clearly separated spaces—in one where solidarity reigns, in the other racists impose their law—and the community is inclined to explain its misfortunes with hair and scars, sometimes with tears. and questionable ways of thinking. In other words, a place that could function as: Loach’s movie metaphordevoted almost entirely to advocating the causes of the working class.
Like a bar, movies – at least the last 15 have all been co-produced with screenwriter Paul Laverty.– full of people who are either just very good or just very bad and whose only dramatic function is to act that way; They are also stories that propose solutions to very easy to very difficult problems, and which, without hesitation or precaution, resort to both didacticism and intensified melodrama to convey their message, and accidentally strike a chord with the audience. We say that “Old Oak” is all of these; actually, few Loach movies are as good as he is. And therefore, considering the position that its author had to occupy in his career, he has no choice but to take off his hat in front of her.
etruscan treasures
Especially since ‘Wonderland’ (2014), Italian Alice Rohwacher borrowing from the folklore and legends, fantastic and cinematographic heritage of his country, he develops a narrative method that transforms them into completely original but similar films. Submitted to compete in the French competition this Friday, ‘La chimera’ accompanies a mysterious young man who is part of a gang of thieves who desecrate tombs. They sell artifacts to the highest bidder, but he who seems to have a supernatural ability to uncover these treasures does this not for money, but as a gift. interdimensional connection with the world of the dead and especially the woman who has a girlfriend.
Esotericism and the tarot is a film overflowing with symbols and metaphors about the Etruscan feminist utopia. confirms that the director is one of the most original and creative voices in contemporary cinema..