Florian Zeller wrote his first novel at the age of 22 and became one of France’s most important writers with his third novel. He then focused on theater and it didn’t take long for him to establish himself internationally. In 2020, he released his first film as a director, ‘El padre’, which eventually earned him an Oscar for his work as a screenwriter and an Oscar for actor. Anthony Hopkins. Through this long string of victories, gave the feeling of being an infallible artist. The new fiction, which he told behind the camera and presented in the competition in Mostra today, shows that it is not so.
Portrait of a teenager with a mental illness and his family trying to understand him in vain –Hugh Jackman Y Laura Dern ‘The Son’ works as a spiritual sequel to the award-winning first film, both because of the thematic kinship suggested by the titles of both films and as part of a dramaturgical trilogy that completes ‘La madre’ by Zeller himself, as both are based on theatrical works written. The difference was that ‘El padre’ did not need to disguise or disguise its origins to function as a cinema, thanks to camera work and its use of space that evokes the subjectivity of a patient with senile dementia. ‘Son’ only works as a series of conversations a single staging idea is not provided at this time. And the real problem is that while sustaining them, the heroes of the story almost never express themselves or act like real people do; Again and again, Zeller has them make overtly crazy or stupid decisions to create moments of high melodrama, or tackle them using blatantly melodramatic tricks to break our hearts. Maybe he’ll get better at it when he adapts ‘The Mother’.
If ‘The Son’ exceeds our feelings without hesitation in calling, the other contender for the Golden Lion presented today willfully avoid him. It is ruled by the French of Senegalese descent. Alice Diop, ‘Saint Omar’ often extraordinarily comprehensive and realistically staged The trial of a sub-Saharan immigrant accused of killing his 15-month-old baby in France. There are no dramatic gestures or climatic fiddles; everything happens not in Hollywood’s way, but as in a real state court. And the film is so meticulous, condescending, when it comes to embodying its risky approach and using it to meditate on a variety of issues—motherhood, the invisibility and adjustment issues many women suffer from, fraternity as the only means of solving them. because dramatic conventions become his most effective means of engaging us emotionally.
The duo who could rule
Brothers Donnie and Joey Emerson were young when they recorded. ‘Dreamin’ Wild’ is a great collection of songs crossing pop, rock, blues and soul and unfortunately no one pays attention; It immediately continued to be counted among the forgotten great albums of history. made by Casey Affleckpresented out of competition in Venice today, the biographical ‘Dreamin’ Wild’ recalls what happened thirty years after the album was almost accidentally rediscovered, and thus offers a poignant reflection on sibling loyalty, second chances, and luck. dreams that will come true.
Source: Informacion
