Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams strengthen their alliance in final episode of Cannes

This Director Kelly Reichardt and actress Michelle Williams maintain a creative alliance Of these, two master films have been released so far, ‘Wendy and Lucy’ (2008) and ‘Meek’s Cutoff’ (2010). This Friday they offer compete Cannes -this is their fourth collaboration – doesn’t reach that high, primarily because of the modesty of its design.

‘Showing’ is a portrait of an artist preparing to open his new sculpture exhibition.; The woman suffers from widespread depression, largely due to her unbearable family. As Reichardt stares at her and meanwhile takes a tour around the art world, she once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent for observing behavior and emotion. He’s too honest a filmmaker to find a cure for his hero, but too empathetic to let him see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Koreeda’s sensuality

Japanese Hirokazu Koreeda also values ​​this last quality, but sometimes it goes too far when mixed with sentimentality. And his movie ‘Broker’, in which he returned to the Cannes competition after winning the Palme d’Or with ‘A Family Affair’ (2018), is an example of this bad habit. The story of a young mother and hapless couple who join forces to sell the baby The parents try to meditate on the trauma their irresponsibility can cause the children, but the maudlin tendency gets in the way. Koreeda isn’t shy about resorting to crude narrative tricks to arouse our sympathy for the overtly raucous characters; and by the way, to defend an absolutely succinct message that life is something precious to be thankful for, he goes so far as to suggest that even giving birth to a child to be born or to destroy his existence is better than an abortion.

French director Léonor Serraille’s film ‘Un petit frère’ also focuses on a dysfunctional family: a woman and her two children who came to Paris from Ivory Coast in the late 1980s. The film follows them for twenty years, during which it becomes clear that he is a terrible parent and their lives will be scarred by it. Besides talking about toxic motherhood, Serraille seems to want to say something about it. Integration problems of sub-Saharan people in Europebut his obvious clumsiness as a narrator prevents us from figuring out what he is.

friendship and solitude

Compared to the broad brush of ‘Broker’ and ‘Un petit frère’, ‘Close’ exhibits a very precise and fine line. The fourth contender for the Palme d’Or this Friday presents the new feature film from Belgian director Lukas Dhont. There is such an intense friendship between two pre-teen boys that when one of them decides to offend him out of fear. tyranny and social exclusion, the other takes his own life; and from that moment on, the film is devoted to observing a child who is faced with pain and guilt for not being mature enough to understand. In the process, ‘Close’ allows it to be interpreted as an allegory about the suffering that adolescent homosexuality can cause, but it is particularly fascinating for what it says about friendship and above all loneliness. Dhont, who won the best first film award at this festival with his first film ‘Girl’; with the latter, it is not excluded that it touches the sky.

Source: Informacion

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