Jessica Chastain thought long and hard before deciding to come to Venice. “I had a lot of doubts and so did members of my team. They advised me not to come.“, get to know. Let us remind you that he is one of the few Hollywood stars to enter the competition this year due to the strikes of actors and screenwriters that choked American cinema. “Those in this profession are often reminded how lucky we are and how grateful we should be. to shut up. And that’s exactly what was allowed Labor abuses that the strike is fighting”. Chastain is the protagonist of Michel Franco’s third consecutive film in a competition for the Golden Lion, and is undoubtedly one of the most controversial films in Mexican filmography.
‘Memory’ is the story of a man trying in vain to remember and a woman trying desperately to forget but failing. schizophrenic patient; He was the victim of a childhood trauma, and the true nature of that trauma would eventually be revealed by Franco in a dramatic climax. Because of him, his next life turned into hell. To contemplate the relationship that develops between the two in the face of his relatives’ disapproval, Franco invokes the formal austerity and narrative sensationalism present in all of his films. However, all of his cinema is more or less display of misery and brutality, Never before had he shown that he had so little to say through them as in ‘Memory’, and he had never used them. so crudely that it shocked the audience.
On the other hand, ‘Off Season’, which was presented to the competition on the last race day of the festival, is the opposite. There are neither pitfalls nor excesses, everything in it is perceived. humble, sincere and honest. The film also stars a couple: He (Guillaume Canet) is a famous actor in crisis and he (Alba Rohrwacher) has given up on dreams of a career as a pianist in order to lead a quiet life; Fifteen years after the hostile severance of their relationship, they meet again and relive their past together, inviting us to reflect as they do so. reproaches and regrets it is derived both from the paths we follow in life, from what we leave behind and from their desirability. Consider second chances carefully.
The story told by the Frenchman Stephane Brizé, then, is not very original or complex; It is the director’s view of the characters that gives it its extraordinary appeal. penetrating and caring as well as discreet. Does ‘Out of Season’ have a chance to make it to the winners list? Hard to know, but at least it should have more than just the third fiction presented in the competition today, ‘The Woman of the Woman’, just in time for its subject – the shifts of a person trying to tell. Gender change in an intolerant country like Poland– and absolutely inept when it comes to doing it.
For the rest, forecasts circulating at the festival predict that the Golden Lion will go either to ‘Poor Creatures’, a feminist re-creation of the Frankenstein myth directed by the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos, or to the x-ray film ‘The Green Frontier’. the drama of refugees directed by Polish Agnieszka Holland; in other words, more radical, creative and dazzling It’s about how many people crave a prize or a primitive but undoubtedly powerful social drama. We’re only hours away from finding out if they’re right.