71 th Venice Film Festival ended with the victory of the Russian and Swedish cinema – Andrei Konchalovsky received the “Silver Lion” for the film “White Nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna,” and the grand prize went to the Swede Roy Andresson for the painting ” Pigeon perched on a branch, reflecting on life ».
In the film, which received the” Golden Lion “in 2014, there is an amazing scene of Karl XII in the scenery of the modern world back from the Poltava, where he army was defeated, and tries to go to the toilet in the bar, but to no avail: it employs.
The King sits down to the bar and sadly talks about “these unpredictable Russian».
But fighting Europeans with Russian only on the screen.
In reality, it is a friendly rivalry Swede Roy Andersson (his film “Dove sat on a branch, thinking about being” won the main prize of the Venetian Mostra) with Russians Andrei Konchalovsky has ended, in fact, a double victory.
However, if Andersson went “gold”, the Russian film with the same long and fancy name (“White Nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna”) only the second most important prize – the “Silver Lion” for Best Director.
Andersson shot his painting seven years since the completion of the monumental trilogy Living, over which the director has been working for fifteen years (the last two of her film, “Songs from the second floor “and” You’re living “out in cinemas in Russia) – and was rewarded for his efforts as the first authoritative trophy in his professional life.
Konchalovsky made his film relatively quickly and obviously not painful,
it is this it is superior to previous works by the master – “House of Fools”, “gloss” and “The Nutcracker.” His prize –
for easier breathing, virtuosity direction, the ability to convey on-screen real, genuine life and show that Russia, which has never seen any in Europe or even in Moscow .
Two more different films have not come up with good intentions. Andersson – perfectionist, shoot your picture frame duration, the fixed camera. In front of her characters – usually non-professional actors (in this, and nothing more, it converges with Konchalovsky), in white clown makeup, act out a sad and comical anecdotes. Plot as such in the picture there, the main characters – the same, although there are several cross-cutting:
unhappily in love flamenco teacher, the unfortunate and the lone captain, two salesmen selling supposedly funny masks and vampire teeth made of plastic.
All together formed a single canvas – fragmentary, but at the same time, whole, dedicated to the eternal human qualities: opportunism, selfishness, cruelty, avarice, stupidity – but charity, generosity, sense of humor. The director says that he was given the name of “Hunters in the Snow” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, and the structure helped to find Beckett and Cervantes.
Konchalovsky also took a picture in which there is no place that artificiality,
in which case Andersson rises to the level of art. “White Nights …” – movie free, direct, natural and organic as if, though still not a documentary.
Yes, he was shot in the Arkhangelsk region, in several villages of the district Kenozerye, and among principal cast only two “real actor” (one of them quite a little boy), but
there is an expressive central character – played himself postman Alexei Tryapitsyn – and almost detective story, related to the abduction of his outboard, without which it is impossible to deliver the mail and delivered bread.
And the poetry and philosophy of this unpretentious casual and simple-minded, but not banal. Here Konchalovsky, who, incidentally, was the oldest participant in the Venice competition,
failed to rise to the height of his best and has a very old movie, “The History of Asia Kliachina».
The third award the film won the Grand Prix – “Kind of Silence”, the second part of the documentary Novels American director Joshua Oppengaymera whose “act of murder” became one of the sensations of last year.
Here, as there, said about the massacres in Indonesia mid-1960s.
Only when the heroes were the executioners, do not hesitate to talk about their atrocities and even play them in the form of a kind of a musical, and
in the new film we are talking about the silent victims and their descendants, who are still trying to understand how this could happen, – and can not.
A deep, serious, dramatic, but not didactic movie from the very beginning it was considered a contender for one of the main prizes, and his award was greeted with a standing ovation.
for acting work expressive “Volpi Cups” was awarded a pair of eccentric movie talented Italian Saverio Costanzo’s “Hungry Heart” – American Adam Driver (soon we will see it in the new “Star Wars”) and a very popular homeland Italian Alba Rorvaher.
In this very bright, but not too much convincing movie they play young parents, whose family was tragically falls after birth: Mom and Dad can not agree than feed him, vegetables or meat.
Also, awards went to “The Last bell for” Alix Delaporte French (Romain young Paul was Marcello Mastroianni Award best novice actor), “History” Iranian women Rakhshan Banietemad (best screenplay) and “Sivas” newcomer from Turkey Kaan Muzhdechi (Special Jury Prize). Chance to see them in the Russian box small. “Kind of Silence” certainly bring on a particular documentary film festival, and then released in theaters, released as “The act of murder,” “Dove …” Roy Andersson is still looking for a distributor,
but the fate of the “White Nights …” Konchalovsky is questionable.
In the film lacks profanity, under the new rules to release it in theaters is not possible. However, the author promised in the near future just to put their work on the Internet, for all.
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