“Trio in E flat”, Rita Azevedo. Author: .
Experts from La Voz de Galicia analyze the latest proposals by the Portuguese Rita Azevedo, the French François Ozon and the British Stephen Frears
The critics of La Voz de Galicia analyze three films that are currently on the program in Galician cinemas: Trio in E flatfrom Rita Azevedo; my crimefrom François Ozon; and The lost kingfrom Stephen Frears.
Another shot from “Trio in E flat”. Author:
“Trio in E flat”, purity of cinematography
Author: Miguel Anxo Fernandez
From the use of the only play written by Éric Rohmer, a very personal Portuguese director Riza Azevedo Gomes — who was a wardrobe assistant in Francisco (1981) by Manoel de Oliveira (in addition to being a loyal fan of his work)—could only lead to a unique film that is the antithesis of a conventional story. It is a work that affirms the purity of cinematography based on the value of words, giving time to time on a subtle camera, with the implicit justification of a sustainable level. Azevedo’s feature film reveals the modesty of the antipodes and the unrestrained pedantry so common today. And that is that the author is as beautiful as he is masterful Portuguese (2018) admits that he prefers not to look for references in order to go down the path of diversity. However, who enjoys it Trio in E flat You will appreciate the shadow of Rohmer, Oliveira and even Bergman because of that third emotional stage that the leading couple undergoes regarding their relationship with each other, her relationship with others and of course the music, although everything is filtered by someone who has an in-depth knowledge of the history of cinematography (Azevedo is self-taught, but professionally associated with the Portuguese Cinematheque for decades). On the other hand, very close to his two protagonists, that peculiar author who manipulates them (incarnated in an eight-year-old indie Spanish Ado Arrieta) next to a the script fascinated by the experience.
Trio… he does not give up a perceptive dose of irony. With a sample layout minimum, which does away with everything that is superfluous in the settings (a house with its interior and exterior, occasionally a beach), and uses calm camera handling, the film at the same time exudes complexity in the dialogues, and also in the language. body and use of the airplane. A formal and sensitive experience in correspondence with the creator, the owner of his own style who defends the purity of cinematography without noise and false additions.
«O TRIO EM E FLAT»
Portugal, Spain. in 2022
Address: Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Screenplay: Rita A. Gomes (based on the work of Eric Rohmer).
Performers: Rita Durão, Pierre Léon, Ado Arrieta, Olivia Cabeza.
Drama. 127 minutes.
“The Lost King” by Stephen Frears. Author:
“Lost King”, Worn Tools
Eduardo Galan Blanco
“Based on a true story”. In a 2012 study, Philip French wrote that one in ten British films this century carried a cursed warning sign in front of them. Of course, if he is a long-awaited critic Guard gave his report today, the figure would be higher. And it is true that a realistic song is already tiring and, often times, we wish that everything we enjoy in the cinema is just a figment of our imagination. But no, The lost king It is based on the real-life figure of an amateur historian, who suffers from chronic fatigue in an unappreciated job, also exhausted by two video game-obsessed teenagers, wounded by a failed marriage and other misfortunes, and great adversity. a valued daily reality.
Now is the winter of our discontent. He listens to the famous soliloquy during a theatrical performance and, in a perpetual winter of discontent, identifies with and converses with Richard III, “an unfinished deformity who really had no hunchback, only a scoliosis,” vilified by official Tudor history with the help of the self-serving genius of the Bard of Avon. And our protagonist — “I can’t stand people who look down on others” — decides to justify the king, looking for his body that disappeared five hundred years ago.
The film is a bit soft, it has nothing to do with the fighting and anti-Thatcher era Stephen Frears —Sammy and Rosie do it, Truck— and it is closer to these peaceful and also valuable chronicles of women on the side —Queen Victoria and Abdul, Philomena, tamara draw— which the British director has been nurturing lately. Despite the nonsensical morbidness of the narrative, it is enough for us to see Sally Hawkins in action, in one of her strong roles as a frail girl like Happy, The Story of Happiness or The Shape of Water. “In a way, we’re all worn tools,” says the heroine in an unforgettable sequence.
“THE LOST KING”
Great Britain, 2022.
Director: Stephen Frears.
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd, Mark Addy, Amanda Abbington, James Fleet.
Dramatic comedy. 108 minutes.
“My crime” by François Ozon. Author:
“My crime”, vaudeville of pure cinematography
Author: MA Fernandez
France created vaudeville (vaudeville) for the theater and that’s why the connection when a film director with proven solvency François Ozon, which adapts Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil’s original set in Paris in 1935. It flaunts its light comedic ingredients with spicy touches, playing with tight intrigue (a debt-ridden young actress is accused of murdering a producer who tried to abuse her) and a series of expertly chained missteps. The film is deprived of the musical part, but introduces grateful inserts of the cinema in the cinema (in the manner and manner of silent black and white), which contribute to the roundness of the result. In things like this the risk lies in going too far, but the author’s mastery far exceeds the test leading to a delicious comedy that should be endured.
The conjunctural note is a brushstroke on female empowerment by taking advantage of a proper trial for an alleged murderer, whom the viewer knows to be innocent. Surrounding the main protagonist are a number of secondary characters in which the production has invested special effort: a generous collection of veterans of the French scene led by Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini. Huppert’s role as a failing silent film star, after working “with Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade…”, is one that is not forgotten as soon as it finds the right point to avoid caricature.
My crime is a joy. Very careful in its art direction as a whole, without abusing the resources of digital technology, the film has its share of risks when betting on an obviously outdated format for what audiences are looking for now. Finally reason prevails and the cinema, intelligent as well as festive, returns to the posters as an antidote to the popcorn plague.
“MON CRIME”
France, 2023.
Director: François Ozon.
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon, Rebecca Marder, Michel Fau.
Drama / intrigue. 102 minutes.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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