Audience of Barcelona cinema phenomenon Filled in to host a session on Friday afternoon. ‘Pacific’ previewIt’s the latest film (the official premiere will be on September 2) from the Banyol-born filmmaker Albert Serra. Before the screening, the director himself, wearing a tropical shirt, black jeans, a neck scarf, dark glasses and flip-flops, warned the audience: my most accessible moviebut do not trust yourself”. And he added: “This cinema is called the Phenomenal Experience, right? The movie is an ‘experience’. I don’t know if it’s failing or sublime, but of course it’s an ‘experience'”.
And yes, it is. ‘Pacifiction’ meets the requirements for experience points. A hypnotic or annoying experience (or both at the same time), but no doubt strange experience. And different. And valuable. For 165 minutes, the audience watched a state commissioner’s (terrifying) Benoit Magimel) is obsessed with rumors of impending nuclear tests in French Polynesia. A nightmarish plot with subtle comedy moments that always move between the intuition of a transcendent revelation and pure mockery.
Genius or joke?
The second is not a critical observation. It is not even a subjective assessment. “I make movies to make fun of the world”accepted Albert Serra after the screening of the film. “People might think, ‘They’re making fun of me. Yes, they take it from you! But at least they don’t steal your money or waste your time like all these shows now.”
In a colloquium led by professor and film critic exhibition sanchez Predictably, it eventually became a ludicrous comedy ‘show’ (not ‘stand up’ because two fellow members were seated), the author of ‘Pacifiction’ devoted himself to highlighting. the most grotesque and unlikely aspects of his own movie“Suspicious or outright absurd scenes,” as he says, “because the actors—and the director, let’s say—work so well, the audience starts to believe it.”
This short guy, who’s been using drugs and flirting with young men in a rotten bar in Papeete, is actually an admiral who commands a nuclear submarine fleet? she asked. This makes no sense. Or maybe it is, and that’s how the world works. I do not know. Don’t rule out the possibility that I’ve become some kind of visionary and have figured out how things really are.
political club
“Politics is like a nightclub: people disconnected from reality, not looking at each other in the dark,” says Magimel’s character at one point in the movie. Sánchez asked the filmmaker if that was the case. most political movie than I’ve ever done. Serra answered yes, but said it was not a premeditated decision. “Everything comes out by itself. I’m coming to Polynesia and from what I see, the first thing i do is start hating all the people out there. And I create images that respond to my candid impressions without bias. And finally, maybe yes, the movie reveals that there was a more or less logical power chain before, and now that logic has disappeared.
In every situation, reminder of the nuclear threat His plans for the ‘Pacific’ take on new meaning in light of recent international events. “Of course that wasn’t planned either,” the director said. But the war in Ukraine intervened and now it turns out that everyone is a nuclear fan.”
When asked about his relationship with the actors, Serra took a quote from businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffett – “simple but not easy” – and made sure that he responded very well to Benoît Magimel’s “slightly anarchic” directorial style. because he is already quite anarchic in himself. Let’s say he has a ‘modus vivendi’… You can imagine”. And he finished with an acclaimed ‘punchline’: “Of course if I could do the actors’ job, I would and that way I would save myself from paying them”.
Source: Informacion
