Geniuses and scholars. The Cannes Film Festival is coming to the end / day

The annual Cannes Film Festival will end on Saturday, May 24. Nothing has changed in the world’s most important festival position and influences what it is in global film processes. I think after the Latvian movie Stream The miraculous success that began last year at the Cannes Festival and ended recently with the US Film Academy Awards Oscar and the European Parliament Lux The award is awarded, and it is no longer necessary to explain the power of the Cannes Festival. Since Tire The premiere has been a year that was also professionally celebrated with the sparkling presentation of the film producer Matisse Kaža this time at the festival From Latvia to Oscars On the main stage of the Market Market for the Cannes Film Festival. The hall was full and the film lovers – professionals – after the presentation stood in line at Tire Producer to talk, exchange contacts, or simply prove excitement.

The presence of Latvia

Tire The positive influence of the Latvian Film Industry is already feeling now – at least in the form of an increased interest in the offer of Latvian cinema and, of course, animation. Also, the fact that the festival’s official program has several films taken in Latvia, using the financial support mechanism offered by the Latvian Investment and Development Agency – the so -called Cash rebate -, is noteworthy. For example, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznica’s film Two prosecutors, The production of both Latvia and Lithuania has participated in cooperation with France as the core producer of the film, so far is the leader in the unofficial film rating of the Cannes Festival competition. The following rating (point system) is traditionally organized by the edition Screen Internationaland it serves as a support structure watching the dynamics of 22 competition programs.

Wide resonance has also been caused by American actress Kristen Stewart in Latvia and Malta’s filmed drama Water Chronology/The Chronology of Waterthat was shown in the second competition program of the Cannes Festival Special Gaze/and Certain Regard. Kristen Stewart is claiming a prize Gold chamber For the best debut in directing. Her handwriting in the movie echoes with Europe Art House The schematic clarity of the tradition, not the Hollywood cinema – the narrative of the film is designed as the story of survival and maturation of a new, sexual violence. Reviews in the international press are welcomed and positive. In an interview, LTV Kristens Stewarte has emphasized the work of Latvian professionals.

In a section Gaze There is another internationally renowned American actress’s first work in the direction – Scarlett Johansson has taken a movie Great Eleonora/Eleanor The Great. It tells the story of a ninety -year -old lady portrayed by US cinema veteran Jun Squib, and her friendship with a new student.

Three generations

This time, the works of the Festival of Cannes are vividly marked by the works of female directors – they form a third of the tender. This statistics show a very significant change in the Cannes Festival program, and also in the last KDI room thoroughly Tier Fremo, Director of the interviewed Cannes Festivalfilm selection principles.

In the early stages of the festival, the internationally unknown German director Masha Shilinskas became a bright discovery Fall noise/in die Sonne Schauen/Sound of Falling. It is an ambitious story of the three generations of a German family and their representatives, mainly women, in the same house – in their daily lives, but accurately reflects both the geopolitical developments of the time, such as the First World War, which is one of the time lines of the film, and the presence of life and death. The film offers not a strict, structured message, but an opportunity to overflow in the space, with amazing ease of crossing both the chronology and the limits of life and death. There are references to Germany and Austrian classics – Michael Hanekee in this work (White ribbon)Folker’s slanorf (Tin drum) And other craftsmen – for works. Director and screenwriter Masha Šilinska is a word that needs to be recorded on the list of rising European authors.

A striking discovery in the Cannes Film Festival Competition Program is the drama of German director Masha Shilinsk Fall noise, which acts almost a centenary in German history. Publicity photo

The horror of the genre master

At the time of the creation of these rows, the public premiere took about half of the main show films of the competition. There have been quite a few powerful movies and some good disappointments. Such as a cult director called an American aster Edington/Eddington. Aster has also experimented with genres so far, first of all, the horror movie genre, making films with an artistic value in this specific niche, for example, Solstice Cult/Midsommar (2019). This year, the aster has been in the Cannes Festival competition for the first time with the film Edington. If we stick to the top -made top -up top, Edington So far, there is the lowest -ranked Cannes Competition film, even despite the bright ensemble of actors, which has a cover Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal.

The film can be described as a cartoon of small towns (fictitious Edington) and its inhabitants. Its theme is an obsession with conspiracy theories, weapons, career-making and, of course, social media that have exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic. The film will take place in 2020. The sheriff portrayed by the cover Phoenix decides to fight for the city mayor and uses frightening and violent methods to achieve its goal by killing and intriguing. Although the Aster’s view of American society is grim and topical, the heroes lack the logic of development, while the sheriff’s slurking and destruction suppresses the film’s social critic nerve.

Fiercely stories

The exaggeration is also marked in the film of well -known British director Linna Dying, my darling/die, my love, which plays the A -grade American actor – Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Petinson. The film tells the story of a new couple’s relationship after the birth of a child and is structured from the main character – hypertrophied sexualized and deep depression. The language of this film also features fragmentary, subjectiveism in European art cinema, refusing to explain the details and stick to the continuity of the development. The heroine’s exalted, exacerbated sense of the world determines the style of the film – the reality blends freely with erotic visions, hysteria attacks and destructive scenes in communication with closest ones. Without denying the topicality of the topic and the importance of the woman’s director’s point of view, it must be concluded that the hysterical intonation of the film and Jennifer Lawrence are confusing. Sorry Robert Petinson, who wanders in the film like a dumb, confused shadow, occasionally becoming the victim of aggression portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence. Hollywood’s old master – actress Sisija Spearseka is visible in the role of Robert Petinson’s portrayal of hero. With the celebrity ensemble in Linn Remini, everything is in the best order.

Directed by Linna Remzia (Center) with her drama Dying, my darling Stars – Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Petinson. The film tells about the relationship between the couple after the baby is born. Photo – Cover Images/Scanpix

The Cannes Festival cannot complain about the Hollywood Star Lack. This time, Tom Cruise was walking on the red carpet, using the opportunity to get extra publicity to the film Impossible mission. Last refundwhich is already on display in cinemas. Although the opening of the festival on May 13 seems to be a path of the past, one cannot mention the main star of the ceremony – honor Golden palm branch Winner Robert de Niro and his colleague Leonardo di Caprio – an appointment. Leonardo di Caprio admitted to the stage in a deep respect and comprehensive professional love for one of the most important American actors. During the official speech, it is rare to resonate emotionally – Leonardo di Caprio, what he said when presenting a prize to a colleague, the master and the artist, who also owes his support to his support at the beginning of his career. It is worth finding it in nets and watching it, just like the laconic and accurate, politically brave and critical speech of Robert de Niro, which was also directed towards the US President.

Americans in Europe

Latvia is rapidly approaching one of the films of Cannes – American author Vesa Anderson Phoenician scheme/The Phoenician Scheme – which will begin in our cinemas on May 30th. The bright and stubbornly loyal director has filmed this work in Germany, using the benefits of the European Film Funding System. At the center of the film is Benisio del Toro’s international businessman scheme who wants to hand over his empire to the nuns. The film is written down as a daughter (and spectators) to introduce the secrets of the hero’s business and partners in different parts of the world. Ves Anderson continues his classic manner – style and shape dominates the story. It is unlikely to re -list the principles of the artist’s visual style: centered frame compositions, strict camera choreography, pronounced and decorative film world, stylized actor game manner, famous actors in small roles, etc. Everything as always – Vesa Anderson lovers will enjoy the movie. Storyteating this is simpler, even more schematic work than his Asteroid city/asteroid City, which was performed in the Cannes Competition Program two years ago. Ves Anderson is a director who vividly embodies the principle of the author of the author – he makes the same movie essentially.

Director Vesa Anderson’s film Phoenician schemeIn which Benisio Del Toro and Mia Trepltone (she is Keith Winslet’s daughter) will be on view in Latvian cinemas from May 30th. Publicity photo

When asked if the Cannes Festival Contest Program has offered any special discoveries, I will answer that it has become one of the American director Richard Lincleitera New Wave/Nouvelle Vague. The film was made in French in France with 100 % French funding. It tells about the time when the French film classic Jean -Law Godar took a movie To the last breath of breath/à bout de souffle (1960) With Jean Paul Belmondo and Gina Sibergas starring. The Godar film has become an absolute cinema classic and the creator of the new wave style of France – the spontaneity, realism and authority. Richard Linkleiter New wave tells about the process of making a Godar film, genius nicks, his fellow legends and do so with playful irony and sinephilic accuracy, imitating the original film framing and camera movement, and achieving a convincing visual resemblance to historical characters.

The American director demonstrates an amazing ability to sink into French cinema culture and classics. It should be noted that the authors of the New Wave strengthened the principles of the European author, which is still relevant – confidence in the originality of the author’s handwriting and style as a criterion for the film value. To this end, the new wave is also important. And don’t have any hysteria and pathos – just the true love and skill of cinema – all offers Richard Linkleiter’s movie New Wave, Which, hopefully, will buy a dealer in Latvia.