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Cannes Video Day 3: Diego Lerman’s La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye)
Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, Diego Lerman's La mirada invisible works from an extremely sharp screenplay, and much like how the Chilean film Tony Manero symbolically made one point by referencing another, this demonstrates that repression doesn't achieve the best of results - whether it's military coup or a young women trying to break free. Photography is crisp and Julieta Zylberberg eventually manages to lasso the viewer onto her side - which is not an easy task with her type of character.
Cannes Video Day 3: Katell Quillevere’s Un poison violent
Un poison violent (translates into Love Like Poison) is Jean Vigo prize wining screenplay - your typical French family drama big on dialogue, not interested in style. Helmer Katell Quillévéré presented her directorial debut in the Quinzaine last night and I couldn't help think back to last year's Bruno Dumont film Hadewijch - both films take certain aspects of religion and cross it with female adolescence.
Cannes Video Day 3: Cristi Puiu’s Aurora
Following in the footsteps of the multiple festival winning 2005's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Aurora is from what I learned in the press book, not the second, but one 6 in a series by Puiu called Six Stories from the Outskirts of Bucharest. Puiu and the entire cast & crew were on hand to present the 181-minute film.
Cannes Video Day 2: Behind Locker Number…
We have the press books for Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Hideo Nakata's Chatroom, Cheol So Jang's Bedevilled, Cristi Puiu's Aurora, Katell Quillevéré's Un Poison violent, Gust Vandenberghe's Little Baby Jesus of Flandr and Diego Lerman's La Mirada invisible (pic above).
Cannes Video Day 2: Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas
Here is some après screening footage from the premiere for the Un Certain Regard selected, Tuesday, After Christmas. The film's director Radu Muntean is the one in the black shirt and big smile while his core trio of actors (Mimi Brănescu who plays the protagonist named Paul, Mirela Oprişor who plays the wife and Maria Popistaşu who plays the mistress) are to the right of him.
