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<channel><title><![CDATA[ORIZZONTI DI GLORIA - La sfida del cinema di qualit&agrave; - english/fra]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra]]></link><description><![CDATA[english/fra]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:01:29 -0700</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[MA MÈRE - Rester à côté]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/ma-mere-rester-a-cote]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/ma-mere-rester-a-cote#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 10:11:43 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[john turturro]]></category><category><![CDATA[ma m&egrave;re]]></category><category><![CDATA[margherita buy]]></category><category><![CDATA[nanni moretti]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/ma-mere-rester-a-cote</guid><description><![CDATA[ &Agrave; la conf&eacute;rence de presse de La chambre du fils au Festival de Cannes, en 2001, Nanni Moretti admettait candidement que, apr&egrave;s une enti&egrave;re carri&egrave;re o&ugrave; dans ses films il avait toujours cri&eacute; et s&rsquo;&eacute;tait fait entendre, maintenant il avait envie d&rsquo;&eacute;couter les autres, de s&rsquo;arr&ecirc;ter davantage sur les gens qui l&rsquo;entouraient (dans ce film, comme dans l&rsquo;avant-dernier Habemus Papam, pas par hasard il &eacute; [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='display: table;z-index:10;width:264px;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:2px;*margin-top:4px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/6759978.jpg?246" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">&Agrave; la conf&eacute;rence de presse de <em>La chambre du fils</em> au Festival de Cannes, en 2001, <strong><font color="#0e0eeb">Nanni Moretti</font></strong> admettait candidement que, apr&egrave;s une enti&egrave;re carri&egrave;re o&ugrave; dans ses films il avait toujours cri&eacute; et s&rsquo;&eacute;tait fait entendre, maintenant il avait envie d&rsquo;&eacute;couter les autres, de s&rsquo;arr&ecirc;ter davantage sur les gens qui l&rsquo;entouraient (dans ce film, comme dans l&rsquo;avant-dernier <em>Habemus Papam</em>, pas par hasard il &eacute;tait un psychanalyste).<br />D&egrave;s ce moment en avant, dans son cin&eacute;ma quelque chose semble avoir chang&eacute; d&eacute;finitivement; les irr&eacute;sistibles tics du pass&eacute; semblent avoir embrass&eacute; une id&eacute;e du monde, de la vie et de la douleur plus grande et complexe, moins orient&eacute;e &agrave; l&rsquo;intemp&eacute;rance juv&eacute;nile des d&eacute;buts et projet&eacute;e davantage vers le tr&egrave;s nombreuses contradictions du pr&eacute;sent. Le Moretti r&eacute;alisateur des trois derni&egrave;res &oelig;uvres est un Moretti acteur qui se d&eacute;file, qui laisse de l&rsquo;espace aux autres devant la cam&eacute;ra, qui litt&eacute;ralement &laquo;reste &agrave; c&ocirc;t&eacute;&raquo;, d&rsquo;une mani&egrave;re analogue &agrave; l&rsquo;expression qu&rsquo;il r&eacute;p&egrave;te lui-m&ecirc;me &agrave; ses acteurs, peut-&ecirc;tre sans m&ecirc;me pas la comprendre, et qui dans <strong><font color="#140de4">Ma m&egrave;re</font></strong> met dans la bouche de la r&eacute;alisatrice Margherita, jou&eacute;e par Margherita Buy, son v&eacute;ritable alter-ego: "<em>Je veux voir l&rsquo;acteur aussi, &agrave; c&ocirc;t&eacute; du personnage</em>".<br />Ainsi comme Moretti conseille &agrave; ses acteurs de ne pas oublier le personnage qu&rsquo;ils doivent jouer sur l&rsquo;&eacute;cran, mais de le mettre par un instant &agrave; c&ocirc;t&eacute;, de la m&ecirc;me fa&ccedil;on son &laquo;se mettre &agrave; c&ocirc;t&eacute;&raquo; est un instrument pour p&eacute;n&eacute;trer plus doucement dans les histoires qu&rsquo;il d&eacute;cide de raconter, pour instaurer un climat de proximit&eacute; et de voisinage o&ugrave; r&egrave;gnent la familiarit&eacute; du sentiment, d&rsquo;un sourire qui rencontre une larme, le sens d&rsquo;inad&eacute;quation, lancinant, irr&eacute;vocable, des ses protagonistes, qui d&rsquo;ailleurs est le m&ecirc;me que Moretti r&eacute;clame pour soi-m&ecirc;me. Cette part d&rsquo;imperfection qui est compl&egrave;tement la sienne, soustraite &agrave; tous les autres publiquement et puis, paradoxalement, renvers&eacute;e dans ses film avec une litt&eacute;rarit&eacute; autobiographique que dans <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em> est m&ecirc;me ravageuse, tellement elle est nue et sans d&eacute;fense (dans ce cas, en fait, le &laquo;rester &agrave; c&ocirc;t&eacute;&raquo; est aussi et surtout assister sa m&egrave;re malade.<br />La fragilit&eacute;, la non-appartenance, l&rsquo;&ecirc;tre ici mais aussi (toujours) ailleurs: un leitmotiv du Moretti m&ucirc;r, d&egrave;s le Silvio Orlando r&eacute;alisateur de b-movie appel&eacute; a faire un film sur le pouvoir &agrave; la r&eacute;alisatrice de <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em>, qui quand est avec quelqu&rsquo;un pense constamment &agrave; quelqu&rsquo;un d&rsquo;autre (&agrave; sa m&egrave;re mourante, &agrave; sa fille, &agrave; son travail sur le set), en passant pour le Pope de Michel Piccoli, qui n&rsquo;est jamais &agrave; l&rsquo;hauteur, qui est &eacute;lu par le conclave mais pr&eacute;f&eacute;rerait &ecirc;tre n&rsquo;importe o&ugrave;. &Agrave; jouer Cechov, dans ce th&eacute;&acirc;tre qu&rsquo;il aime tellement, &agrave; se promener dans la rue. Mais non pas l&agrave; o&ugrave; il se trouve.<br />Les derniers personnages de Moretti, exactement comme lui, semblent d&eacute;sirer seulement la fuite de eux-m&ecirc;mes. Des obligations, des liturgies publiques, des litanies pr&eacute;-&eacute;tablies du quotidien (&laquo;<em>Je r&eacute;p&egrave;te les m&ecirc;mes choses depuis des ann&eacute;es car tout le monde pense que moi, en tant que r&eacute;alisateur, je sache interpr&eacute;ter la r&eacute;alit&eacute;, mais je ne comprend plus rien</em>&raquo;, pense Margherita devant les embarrassantes questions standard d&rsquo;une conf&eacute;rence de presse). &Agrave; la recherche d&rsquo;une puret&eacute; originaire, d&rsquo;une absence de superstructures dont le m&ecirc;me Moretti dans <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em> s&rsquo;est empar&eacute;, en racontant un morceau consistent de son r&eacute;cent pass&eacute; (la mort de sa m&egrave;re arriv&eacute;e pendant le montage de <em>Habemus Papam</em>), avec une effronterie sans &eacute;gal qui se cache, partiellement, seulement derri&egrave;re le jeu de l&rsquo;identification avec le personnage de Buy en r&eacute;sumant obsessions et habitudes du r&eacute;alisateur, ce dernier jouant son fr&egrave;re empress&eacute;, scrupuleux et bon, que de Moretti nous laisse voir seulement la m&eacute;ticulosit&eacute; et la passion pour les sucreries, en ageant d&rsquo;ailleurs avec une candeur et une soumission que, dans l&rsquo;&eacute;cran, il n&rsquo;avait jamais incarn&eacute; directement jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; ce point.<br /><br />Il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;un signal d&rsquo;acteur important, m&ecirc;me d&eacute;cisif. Car dans <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em> les exc&egrave;s sont circonscrits et isol&eacute;s, confi&eacute;s presque tous &agrave; l&rsquo;histrionique et canaille <strong><font color="#0e14eb">John Turturro</font></strong>, dont l&rsquo;acteur am&eacute;ricain incapable et narcisse cache cependant une syndrome qui ne r&eacute;v&egrave;le pas (on peut dire seulement que ce n&rsquo;est pas la premi&egrave;re fois que Moretti met cette question sur le tapis dans sa carri&egrave;re). C&rsquo;est un film contr&ocirc;l&eacute; et limpide, <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em>, mouvant au de l&agrave; de toute limite, mod&eacute;r&eacute; jusqu&rsquo;au point d&rsquo;envelopper le spectateur dans un gel l&eacute;ger et impalpable, et pourtant lourd comme le plomb, impr&eacute;gn&eacute; d&rsquo;une tristesse silencieuse qui lentement envahie le spectateur et qui aussi lentement se dessoude. Sans offrir catharsis faciles, en nous obligeant, loin de tout complaisance, &agrave; regarder en face le deuil e &agrave; nous confronter nos fant&ocirc;mes individuels. &Agrave; penser &agrave; nos chambres vides et &agrave; ceux qui ne les remplissent plus; &agrave; nos grandes bo&icirc;tes pleines d&rsquo;objets et abandonn&eacute;es en attendant une meilleure sort, ceux qui son toujours l&agrave; et que nous ne d&eacute;cidons jamais d&rsquo;enlever, r&eacute;elles ou figur&eacute;es qui soient. On les a tous, et on le sait tr&egrave;s bien.<br />Moretti, comme cela a d&eacute;j&agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; dit et &eacute;crit plus ou moins par tout le monde, a tourn&eacute; son film le plus intime et personnel, celui dans lequel la transfiguration du v&eacute;cu est sans aucun doute plus pouss&eacute;e, douloureuse et soufferte; cependant, la chose stup&eacute;fiante est qu&rsquo;on ne le regarde jamais comme on regarderait la vie, les r&ecirc;ves, les peurs et les souffrances de quelqu&rsquo;un d&rsquo;autre, mais on le reconna&icirc;t tout de suite comme <em>son propre</em>, bien que le mat&eacute;riel que Moretti a renvers&eacute; dans le film soit vraiment embrouill&eacute; et merveilleusement impossible &agrave; distinguer (la s&eacute;quence en face du Capranichetta, mais aussi les derni&egrave;res sc&egrave;nes de <strong><font color="#1b0eea">Margherita Buy</font></strong> avec Turturro dans le set, sont une jubilation de lyrisme, &eacute;motivit&eacute; condens&eacute;e et charg&eacute;e &agrave; blanc, re-invention onirique et po&eacute;tique.<br /><br />On regarde <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em> en tournant la loupe dans soi-m&ecirc;me, et c&rsquo;est un miracle que le r&eacute;alisateur romain ait obtenu ce r&eacute;sultat avec son film le plus r&eacute;f&eacute;r&eacute; a son ego, le plus en danger dans le domaine de la auto-commis&eacute;ration narcissique ou de la session psychanalytique priv&eacute;e, finalis&eacute;e a &eacute;laborer son propre deuil. Risques invariablement conjur&eacute;s par ce qui semble &ecirc;tre l&rsquo;int&eacute;r&ecirc;t principal du Moretti de <em>Ma m&egrave;re</em>: surveiller et garder les &eacute;motions, les accentuer m&ecirc;me musicalement (de Arvo P&auml;rt &agrave; &Oacute;lafur Arnalds en passant pour Philip Glass et Leonard Cohen), ne les laisser exploser, les embaumer dans une &laquo;th&egrave;que&raquo;, c&rsquo;est &agrave; dire dans un bureau ou un livre de latin dans lequel sont d&eacute;pos&eacute;s &eacute;tudes, notes et morceaux de vie d&rsquo;une m&egrave;re enseignante de lettres classiques. Non pas pour les mortifier mais pour les avoir plus proches &agrave; soi et les apercevoir mieux, m&ecirc;me &agrave; travers le langage chiffr&eacute; du r&ecirc;ve (le cauchemar qui montre le sol se tremper d&rsquo;eau, symbole ut&eacute;rin, maternel et primitif par excellence). Tout, dans son film, se superpose et se croise jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; s&rsquo;estomper dans la dimension partag&eacute;e du souvenir et de la douleur, deux contingences jumelles, in&eacute;vitablement li&eacute;es par une tr&egrave;s &eacute;troite relation de parent&eacute;.<br />Ce Moretti d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui, si sec et confidentiel en parlant et frappant au c&oelig;ur, surprend et d&eacute;soriente comme jamais, il est touchant avec une fermet&eacute; non de chantage, il invoque un retour &agrave; un principe de r&eacute;alit&eacute; (&laquo;<em>Bring me back to reality!</em>&raquo;, gueule le Barry de Turturro apr&egrave;s une furibonde querelle avec Margherita) qui l&rsquo;emm&egrave;ne du set d&rsquo;un mauvais film avec sur lui l&rsquo;&eacute;tiquette de l&rsquo;engagement social et le transporte ailleurs. N&rsquo;importe o&ugrave;, m&ecirc;me vers un demain auquel penser avec une n&eacute;cessite et urgence renouvel&eacute; malgr&eacute; tout, avec les larmes aux yeux et le battement de c&oelig;ur pour ce qui est en train de s&rsquo;en aller &agrave; jamais et qu&rsquo;on voudrait garder d&eacute;sesp&eacute;r&eacute;ment attach&eacute; &agrave; soi.<br /><em>Ma m&egrave;re</em>, si on le regarde avec la m&ecirc;me am&egrave;re, tr&egrave;s douce franchise avec le film m&ecirc;me <em>nous regarde</em>, est la manifeste d&eacute;claration d&rsquo;une reddition, la mise &agrave; nu d&rsquo;une innocente manque de pr&eacute;paration face aux choses de la vie que au fond nous r&eacute;unit tous. En &ccedil;a r&eacute;side, en m&ecirc;me temps, son humaine faiblesse et sa extraordinaire force cin&eacute;matographique. En un mot sa beaut&eacute;, pas hurl&eacute;e et indirecte, pudique et orgueilleusement anti-rh&eacute;torique.<br /><br />&Eacute;crit par <strong>Davide Eustachio Stanzione</strong><br /><br />Traduction par <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Section de r&eacute;f&eacute;rence: <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><br />Article original: &nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/film-nelle-sale/mia-madre-stare-accanto" target="_blank">Mia madre - Stare accanto</a></u></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOYHOOD - Strolling with Life]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/boyhood-strolling-with-life]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/boyhood-strolling-with-life#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:49:37 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[boyhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[ethan hawke]]></category><category><![CDATA[richard linklater]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/boyhood-strolling-with-life</guid><description><![CDATA[ After less than a year from the amazing Before Midnight, the third movie based on the relationship between Jesse and C&eacute;line after Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, the new movie by the American director Richard Linklater was one of the most awaited cinema visions of the year.Boyhood is a peculiar work in the Texas director&rsquo;s career, and not because of the conceiving &ndash; twelve years for the shooting, two years both for pre-production and post-production &ndash;, but mostly for  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='display: table;z-index:10;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/3124643.jpg?190" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">After less than a year from the amazing <em>Before Midnight</em>, the third movie based on the relationship between Jesse and C&eacute;line after <em>Before Sunrise</em> and <em>Before Sunset</em>, the new movie by the American director <strong><font color="#180be4">Richard Linklater</font></strong> was one of the most awaited cinema visions of the year.<br /><strong><font color="#1a0ee9">Boyhood</font></strong> is a peculiar work in the Texas director&rsquo;s career, and not because of the conceiving &ndash; twelve years for the shooting, two years both for pre-production and post-production &ndash;, but mostly for its maturity. The style of the 165 minutes-long movie is actually the mise-en-sc&egrave;ne of life, of becoming an adult and of the passage of a time which sets, at the same time, the filming act and the diegetic universe.<br /><em>Boyhood</em>, set in Texas, tells the story of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) through the fluctuation of years, from their parents&rsquo; divorce, Olivia (Patricia Arquette) and Mason Sr. (<strong><font color="#1b08e0">Ethan Hawke</font></strong>), to the meeting with their mother&rsquo;s new lovers; relationships which involve moves, new schools and new friends. Each moment of the movie marks a passage of the actors&rsquo; individual growth, and the &ldquo;boyhood&rdquo; in the title is the hub where the abilities and anxieties of everybody &#8210; parents, acquaintances or new lovers &#8210; turn around.<br />Despite the fact that the movie is composed by several moments, it seems difficult, or even impossible, to underline some of them in particular; Linklater decides to focus on &ldquo;everything&rdquo;, favoring the feeling of taking part in the emotional and honest memory that Mason gets of the path which brought him to be a young adult. The director decides not to mark the passages among the years and the episodes; there is no recourse to voices-over, captions and dates. The music and the actors&rsquo; physicalness are the terms of comparison to understand the passage of years.<br />It is actually this choice &ndash; a continuous losing and finding oneself thanks to profound and meaningful narrative ellipsis &ndash; that allows the user of the film work to pass from the state of audience to that of witness. But witness of what? Of his growth and the consequent articulation and psychological examination? Of the adhesion to an adult model represented by the parents? Linklater himself underlines this last possibility, stating that as a boy &ldquo;<em>everyone was telling me to do this or that. But did I really want to become as they were? Definitely not, so I did quite the opposite of what I was told to do</em>&rdquo; (Sight &amp; Sound, August 2014).<br />Each of us was a child and so had heroes to follow, but unfortunately, following these models, someone lost his way, becoming at fault his own anti-hero, or in opposition his own negative hero. The adult models Mason is related with are his father, the university teacher Bill and the former soldier Jim, Olivia&rsquo;s failed lovers in her search for a family stability. If Mason Sr. is out at work, Bill and Jim are too tough towards themselves and the others, and they both conceal weaknesses abusing alcohol.<br />Mason just does not want to be a hero, as the <em>Family of the year</em> sing in their Hero, one of the most significant tracks of the movie: &ldquo;<em>Let me go, I don't want to be your hero, I don't wanna be a big man, I just wanna fight with everyone else, Your masquerade, I don't wanna be a part of your parade...</em>&rdquo;. Banally, he wants to be what he is able to wish, a slacker or a common citizen conforming to the rules.<br />Going ahead, we must come back to the element &ldquo;time&rdquo; and go along towards the amazing liaison which <em>Boyhood</em> establishes with true and real life. In <em>Boyhood</em>, Linklater, shooting in 35 mm &ndash; an element which maximizes the deictic features of cinema &ndash; is able to fix indelibly the passage of time and to make it perceptible and corporeal: it is not anymore a tool or an expedient, but the protagonist of the mise-en-sc&egrave;ne. Linklater does not &ldquo;sculpts in time&rdquo;, borrowing the title of a famous Tarkovskij&rsquo;s book: on the contrary, it is the light which imprints the film, it is the true life.<br />Besides, it is not the first time that the Austin-born director plays with the time matter, alternatively changing or keeping it; he actually realized works which are set in a single day or night (<em>Slacker, Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia</em>), some others shot in real time (<em>Tape</em>), and the <em>Before</em> trilogy, which is linked to both methods previously described. This is what make Linklater&rsquo;s cinema interesting and never predictable.<br />Here the shooting act seems more important than the final outcome, that is excellent anyway. Life goes on as fast as cinema, changing and shaping it. Its activity is unceasing and fruitful. Linklater, although tempted by the meticulous organization of the narrative structure, surrendered to the growth of the project, diverging from the original path in order to enrich it. The director, the crew and the actors met for a three/four days&rsquo; shooting every year for twelve years, giving themselves a lot of time for the the editing and the development of ideas. So it happened, for example, that the passion for photography developed by the young Coltrane was then put into his character.<br />To conclude, <em>Boyhood</em> is a wonderful work, born from the explosive power that life impresses on the act of &ldquo;thinking with images&rdquo;, highlighting the fracture which is created between the d&eacute;coupage and the final editing of the movie. <em>Boyhood</em> does not start or end before our eyes, and this &ldquo;happening&rdquo; fascinates deeply.<br /><br /><span style=""></span>Written by&nbsp;<strong style="">Emanuel Carlo Micali</strong><br /><br />Translation from italian by&nbsp;<strong style="">Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Reference section:&nbsp;<u style=""><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html" title="" style="">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><br />Articolo in versione italiana: <u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/film-nelle-sale/boyhood-passeggiando-con-la-vita" target="_blank">Boyhood - Passeggiando con la vita</a></u><br /></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  <div class="wsite-youtube" style="margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:10px;"><div class="wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-medium wsite-youtube-align-left"> <div class="wsite-youtube-container">  <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Ys-mbHXyWX4?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CANNES 67 - Mommy, de Xavier Dolan]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-67-mommy-de-xavier-dolan]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-67-mommy-de-xavier-dolan#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:04:52 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[festival de cannes]]></category><category><![CDATA[mommy]]></category><category><![CDATA[xavier dolan]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-67-mommy-de-xavier-dolan</guid><description><![CDATA[ Satisfait. Auto-r&eacute;f&eacute;rentiel. Vaniteux. Flatteur. Ces adjectifs ont &eacute;t&eacute; utilis&eacute;s par ces qui n&rsquo;ont pas tout &agrave; fait appreci&eacute; Mommy, la derni&egrave;re &oelig;uvre de l&rsquo;enfant prodige du cin&eacute;ma canadien Xavier Dolan, vainqueur du Grand Prix Sp&eacute;cial du Jury au Festival de Cannes, o&ugrave; d&rsquo;ailleurs beaucoup de gens pensaient (et esp&eacute;raient) qu&rsquo;il pouvait gagner la Palme d&rsquo;Or. Le film du talentueux  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='display: table;z-index:10;width:239px;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/822596.jpg?227" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px; max-width:100%" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">Satisfait. Auto-r&eacute;f&eacute;rentiel. Vaniteux. Flatteur. Ces adjectifs ont &eacute;t&eacute; utilis&eacute;s par ces qui n&rsquo;ont pas tout &agrave; fait appreci&eacute; <em style="">Mommy</em>, la derni&egrave;re &oelig;uvre de l&rsquo;enfant prodige du cin&eacute;ma canadien <strong><font color="#1d0bde">Xavier Dolan</font></strong>, vainqueur du Grand Prix Sp&eacute;cial du Jury au Festival de Cannes, o&ugrave; d&rsquo;ailleurs beaucoup de gens pensaient (et esp&eacute;raient) qu&rsquo;il pouvait gagner la Palme d&rsquo;Or. Le film du talentueux r&eacute;alisateur de vint-cinq ans, qui a d&eacute;j&agrave; tourn&eacute; cinq films et a un halo de culte tr&egrave;s fort &agrave; ses &eacute;paules, a en fait enthousiasm&eacute; le public et la critique du monde entier, recevant un consentement unanime, frein&eacute; seulement par quelques critiques exprim&eacute;es dans le style dont on parlait avant.<br />Comme ici on n&rsquo;a pas l&rsquo;intention de faire &agrave; tout prix une simple apologie de Dolan, on dit tout de suite que les d&eacute;finitions qu&rsquo;on a cit&eacute; sont tout &agrave; fait justifi&eacute;es, ou m&ecirc;me acceptables, car en fait <strong><font color="#1306e3">Mommy</font></strong> est r&eacute;ellement un film <span style="">satisfait</span> et vaniteux. Sans abandonner son stup&eacute;fiant charge expressif, cette fois Dolan a cependant travaill&eacute; surtout avec la t&ecirc;te, laissant partiellement de c&ocirc;t&eacute; l&rsquo;instinct des pr&eacute;cedents <a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/22/post/2013/08/laurence-anyways-rivolta-no-rivoluzione.html" target="_blank" title=""><u>Laurence Anyways</u></a> et <em style="">Tom &agrave; la ferme </em>pour r&eacute;aliser un produit plus &eacute;tudi&eacute;, pens&eacute;, &eacute;tabli avec la claire intention de penetrer dans le c&oelig;ur du spectateur.<br /><em style="">Mommy</em> raconte l&rsquo;histoire de la difficile relation entre Diane, m&egrave;re perp&eacute;tuellement &agrave; la recherche d&rsquo;une place dans le monde, et son fils Steve, violent et incontr&ocirc;lable, parqu&eacute; pour des ann&eacute;es dans plusieurs instituts de contr&ocirc;le et r&eacute;habilitation et finalment expuls&eacute; sans aucune veritable am&eacute;lioration. Leur union retrouv&eacute;e et oblig&eacute;e devient d&egrave;s le d&eacute;but une bataille quotidienne dans laquelle se succ&eacute;dent sans tr&ecirc;ve discussions, querelles, hurlements, bagarres, insultes, altern&eacute;s a rares moments de calme dans lesquels explose le d&eacute;sir d&rsquo;amour que tous les deux, en differentes mani&egrave;res, voudraient exprimer sans en &ecirc;tre capables. Diane (<strong><font color="#0e08e2">Anne Dorval</font></strong>), avec ses v&ecirc;tements d&eacute;traqu&eacute;s de femme fatale hors temps, lutte pour soi-m&ecirc;me et son fils, perd son travail, cherche des issues, se noye dans le stress; Steve, pour sa part, vit sans inhibitions, r&eacute;clame des attentions et de l&rsquo;affection, plonge dans des gestes d&rsquo;amour &laquo;faux&raquo;, devore le monde sans le comprendre, exprime son d&eacute;sir d&rsquo;acceptation mais il perd tout jugement au premier mot erron&eacute;.<br />Dolan mene son &oelig;uvre avec un double registre: il ne renonce pas &agrave; la cr&eacute;ativit&eacute; qui lui appartient depuis toujours, mais au m&ecirc;me temps il semble d&eacute;velopper un conte directe selon des canons narratifs pr&eacute;cis, par une r&eacute;presentation vacillante qui monte et d&eacute;scend comme la mar&eacute;e, entre sc&egrave;nes cruciales avec un impressionnant impact visuel et s&eacute;quences interm&eacute;diaires qui semblent bercer le parterre en le preparant puor le contrast suivant. En fait, le personnage de Diane semble presque st&eacute;r&eacute;otyp&eacute;, aves ses &eacute;ternelles et irr&eacute;parables contradictions, tandis que la figure de Steve, bien que riche de nuances, n&rsquo;est pas trop lointaine de beaucoup de portraits de adol&eacute;scents perturb&eacute;s que le cin&eacute;ma a toujours &eacute;t&eacute; interess&eacute;, et il est encore interess&eacute;, &agrave; proposer.<br />Pourtant, avec ses d&eacute;fauts, ses imperfections, ses hurlements excessifs et fatiguants, avec les <em style="">tabarnak</em> r&eacute;pet&eacute;s sans arr&ecirc;t, <em style="">Mommy</em> confirme les potentialit&eacute;s d&rsquo;un enorme talent, capable, malgr&eacute; son jeune age, de tourner autour de l&rsquo;object-cin&eacute;ma comme un &eacute;clat fou qui ne sait et ne veut se poser aucune limite.<br />Combien, dans le panorama contemporain, savent utiliser le moyen filmique comme Dolan, inventant petits traits de g&eacute;nie similaires au moment dans lequel Steve litt&eacute;ralement <em style="">ouvre</em> le cadrage avec ses mains, modifiant le format m&ecirc;me de la p&eacute;llicule? Combien arrivent a utiliser la musique avec le m&ecirc;me sens et fantasie? Combien savent imprimer dedans et au del&agrave; de l&rsquo;&eacute;cran des intuitions d&rsquo;extr&egrave;me qualit&eacute; comme cette magnifique danse lib&eacute;ratrice dans la cuisine, gr&acirc;ce &agrave; laquelle au moins pour un instant toute souffrance peut &ecirc;tre oubli&eacute;e? Combien?<br />Vraiment pas beaucoup. Si alors <em style="">Mommy</em> semble une &oelig;uvre qui glorifie soi-m&ecirc;me, si elle nous tra&icirc;ne a pleurer facilement, si Dolan donne l&rsquo;impression de se pavaner devant un &eacute;cran, au fond &ccedil;a n&rsquo;a pas beaucoup d&rsquo;importance. Son histoire suinte quand m&ecirc;me force et vitalit&eacute;, et nous offre, une autre fois, une puissance stylistique d&eacute;bordante.<br />Pour augmenter davantage la valeur du film, on a de plus un bonus d&rsquo;incomparable qualit&eacute;: Kyla. Elle est de trop, elle est l&rsquo;enseignante b&egrave;gue en repos pour une (pr&eacute;sum&eacute;e) ann&eacute;e sabbatique, la mysterieuse voisine qui s&rsquo;insinue avec tranchante profondeur dans la <em style="">guerre d&eacute;clar&eacute;e</em> entre Diane et Steve, qui concentre sur soi-m&ecirc;me la substance de l&rsquo;un des plus beaux personnages vu au cin&eacute;ma pendant les derni&egrave;res ann&eacute;es.<br />Gr&acirc;ce &agrave; la superbe interpr&eacute;tation de la com&eacute;dienne <strong><font color="#2809e2">Suzanne Cl&eacute;ment</font></strong> aussi, la figure de Kyla propose mille variations de r&eacute;gard et trajectoire, parcourant routes tortueuses qui n&rsquo;ont ni un d&eacute;but ni une fin. Dans les yeux timides de cette femme, dans sa d&eacute;chirante et intime souffrance, dans la bont&eacute; pr&ecirc;te a se tranformer tout &agrave; coup en sauvage col&egrave;re, dans sa double essence de peur et violence, douceur et repentir, Dolan atteint le sommet, <span style="">plantant</span> dans notre &acirc;me le drapeu de creatures perdantes qui savent quand m&ecirc;me affronter l&rsquo;enfer la t&ecirc;te haute.<br />Diane, Steve, Kyla: entre &eacute;spoir et r&eacute;signation, solitude et abandon, remords et blessures sanglantes, le sort marqu&eacute; des trois antih&eacute;ros de Dolan s&rsquo;&eacute;chappe, revient, court et crie, produisant un grondement assourdissant qui en m&ecirc;me temps nous d&eacute;chire et exalte, en nous conduisant vers une derni&egrave;re limite, qu&rsquo;il faut absolument abattre, en fuite vers l&rsquo;impossible but du demain.<br /><br />&Eacute;crit par <strong>Alessio Gradogna</strong><br /><br />Traduction par <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Section de r&eacute;f&eacute;rence: <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html" title="">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><br />Article original / Articolo originale in lingua italiana: <a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/cannes-67-recensioni/cannes-67-mommy-di-xavier-dolan.html" target="_blank" title=""><u>Cannes 67 &ndash; Mommy, di Xavier Dolan</u></a><br /></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  <div class="wsite-youtube" style="margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:10px;"><div class="wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-medium wsite-youtube-align-left"> <div class="wsite-youtube-container">  <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GMWv6c6luZA?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRINCE OF DARKNESS - The visible and the invisible]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/prince-of-darkness-the-visible-and-the-invisible]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/prince-of-darkness-the-visible-and-the-invisible#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:48 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[john carpenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[prince of darkness]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/prince-of-darkness-the-visible-and-the-invisible</guid><description><![CDATA[ Los Angeles, the New Babylon, today. In the basement of the abandoned church of Saint Godard&rsquo;s, an enormous glass shrine is shielded, holding inside a shapeless green liquid, shaken by a pure dynamic form, that seems to reveal an active awakening of the substance after centuries of immobility. It&rsquo;s the most noxious and execrable answer to all the questions of both science and faith: the principle of Evil, the source of any disaster for human race, the Son or, better, the emanation o [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/9821741.jpg?204" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">Los Angeles, the New Babylon, today. In the basement of the abandoned church of Saint Godard&rsquo;s, an enormous glass shrine is shielded, holding inside a shapeless green liquid, shaken by a pure dynamic form, that seems to reveal an active awakening of the substance after centuries of immobility. It&rsquo;s the most noxious and execrable answer to all the questions of both science and faith: the principle of Evil, the source of any disaster for human race, the Son or, better, the emanation of an Entity which lives over the borders or our space-time, in the depth and the structure of antimatter or, poetically, over the looking glass, more than in a generically transcendent dimension.<br />It&rsquo;s not exactly Satan nor a derivation of him, but it&rsquo;s a god of inverse polarity compared to that projected by our conscience of attenders and connoisseurs of the catholic rituals. Actually, it&rsquo;s very likely that it&rsquo;s precisely the same god we worshiped without knowing it, that lives &ndash; monstrous and grotesque representation of the polymorphic trinity structure &ndash; both in our world (the entity shielded in the shrine, the Son) and in the over-perceivable one (the Father who lives over the looking-glass and tries to join again with his Son), where the third pole, corresponding to the Holy Spirit, could be identified as energy, i.e., according to Aristotele&rsquo;s theories, as the ability to shift from possibility to act or, in this specific situation, to move among the space-time passages, continuously shape-shifting (<strong><font color="#e80b0b">1</font></strong>).<br /><span></span><br /><strong><font color="#e90a0a">1</font></strong>) <font size="1">In all Carpenter&rsquo;s movies, Evil presents, in a deformed and paradoxically trenchant way, the essential features of the principles, dogmas and precepts of Christianity (&ldquo;God&rsquo;s monkey&rdquo;, as it is defined by the Fathers of  Church), starting from the trinity structure, as reported in the text, and extending to the mystery of incarnation of the Son through the body of a chosen mortal (in this case, the scholar Kelly, being the Mother and the link between the earthly and the afterlife dimension). The progressive contamination which affects the researchers who come into contact with the noxious liquid (and who actually become terrible survivors&rsquo; enemies), on the contrary, represents the blasphemous <em>conversion</em> to Evil. We must never forget, however, the basic ambiguity which also pervades these features of the relationship between the Divine and the Demonic in Carpenter&rsquo;s work; the second never seems actually so, but it is always the expression of Chaos, of the irrational which becomes the origin of the universe.<br /></font><span></span><br />Christ is the <em>Anti</em>-Christ and God is the <em>Anti</em>-God, in a continuous game of deformed mirrors. This is stated by an enormous and ancient book written in Latin, Greek, Copt and numbers, that is located in the basement where the monstrous secret is shielded. The Church lied, more or less deliberately, for a long time, about the true nature of the so-called &ldquo;God&rsquo;s Son&rdquo;, and had to trap him into that shrine, under the custody of a strange congregation, the <em>Brotherhood of Sleep</em>, a sect of priests-guardians with a great &ldquo;political&rdquo; power, whose existence has been hidden even to most of the Vatican elite. In a strange paradox, the sleep of the monster, the ignorance about its presence in the world, has generated the <em>reason</em>, i.e. has led philosophers, physicians and mathematicians, along many centuries, to build systems of thought where the interpretation of phenomena created a reality logically organized according to a prearranged harmony.<br />The Church shields, but does not understand the actual identity hidden in the substance into the glass cylinder. As for itself, science does not shield, but begins to understand, following its own path of knowledge, that the nature of the visible world (and, as in this case, the invisible world, as it is, and the transcendent one, where the Divine should be located, mix themselves together and become indivisible) and of the micro-particles which compose it does not correspond at all to the laws of equilibrium and logic proportions which seem to rule the macroscopic world. The <em>shape-less</em> abjections shielded but not understood by religion are the same which are discovered, watched but not dominated by science. The chaotic world of subatomic particles, where Evil is located, leads to the formation of an aberrant universe, where both the supposed teleological order of religion (whose man is the fulcrum) and the one founded upon the principles of traditional logic, upon which an as much traditional science is based (whose man is again the fulcrum), collapse.<br />As professor Birack (<strong><font color="#1e11ef">Victor Wong</font></strong>) states: &ldquo;<em>Our logic collapses at a subatomic level, between ghosts and shadows</em>&rdquo;, and &ldquo;<em>Even though an order exists in the universe, it&rsquo;s not the one we were thinking about, at all</em>&rdquo;. The nature and the matter we watch are only projections of a indeterminable/indeterminate-structured reality, where the multiplicity of variables in the microscopic level, but often in the macroscopic one as well (<strong><font color="#ee0a0a">2</font></strong>), prevents the watcher to establish precisely the laws and rules of an inaccessible world. This is probably the worst evil for man and for his ambition to be the center and the measure of all things.<br /><span></span><br /><strong><font color="#ee0808" size="2">2</font></strong><font size="1">) See Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Lyotard, <em>The Postmodern Condition</em> (1979), in particular pp. 107-110.</font><br /><span></span><br />In <strong><font color="#120be0"><span style="line-height: 0; display: none;">&#65279;</span>John Carpenter<span style="line-height: 0; display: none;">&#65279;</span></font></strong>&rsquo;s movie we watch a strange a controversial request of help from the Vatican elite (in particular father Loomis, performed by <strong><font color="#2208e8">Donald Pleasance</font></strong>) to the scientific-academic world (professor Birack, with other teachers and researchers) in order to face the threat of the Thing suddenly awake after a millennial sleep.<br />Actually, the conflict we watch is not mainly about the contrast between science and faith, but about the contrast between contemporary and traditional science; the quantum theory, supported by Birack, paradoxically is much closer to the theological ideas than to the concepts of a traditional, and yet surpassed, knowledge. Precisely the collapse &ldquo;between ghosts and shadows&rdquo; of erudition beliefs learned during centuries of study, whose cause is not a dogma or a truth of faith, but a new development of knowledge, which quantum physics gets thanks to scientific study and watching, brings to the spurious alliance between <em>the science of invisible</em> and <em>the revealed truth of invisible</em>.<br />On both sides there will be a bitter surprise. Both the man of faith (Loomis) and the men of research and experimentation (Birack and the other scholars) will have to change idea on many of their beliefs. Loomis will watch his Manichean vision of a duality &ndash; the division between Good and Evil, both absolute entities &ndash;, his life had led him to, fall down: universe originates from chaos and disorder, which lay in the subatomic dimension in the first place, and is ruled by them; there is not even the &ldquo;consolation&rdquo; of a fight against a diabolic intelligence. All that is real is also irrational, we could say. The enemy is nothing more than pure dynamic energy, a real destructive power. The scholars will be dismayed to see that the anomalies of the microscopic world are not only typical of this one, but they also overflow in the macroscopic one, affecting every human being, the whole human community, besieged on every side by the coming of an original power, that is even more ancient than the world itself, that is dull, blind and owns an immense destructive force.<br />Because of the absence of a principle of Good, of a possibility of safety which comes from the transcendent, in a world whose fate seems ruin, the only possibility for man is to commit to himself. The Church is quiet or lies about a lethal and tragic truth, but also the laical institutions seem indifferent both to the danger for the group of fearless scholars &ndash; actually, a danger for the whole world &ndash; and to the unease of the least, the homeless (the beings who, after stopping to be useful for society, simply begin to be, authentically taking their existence back without over-structures that come from a &ldquo;useless usefulness&rdquo;), who wait for the comeback. They do not just want it, they feel it,  and their hopes lie in the coming of an afterlife Power, enemy of the society and the civil assembly which marginalized them. These least, inhabitants of the extreme suburbs of the town, are the ones who perceive that a substantial changing in the earthly hierarchies is forthcoming, and who besiege, without speaking, the church where the scholars gather to face the danger and where is near the coming of the ontological revolution which is going to change the future of the world.<br />In almost all Carpenter&rsquo;s works, the individual heroism, or that of a small group of characters, faces a threat which the rest of the community ignores (the examples are countless: <em>Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Fog, The Thing, They Live, Vampires</em> and others). Therefore the original topic is missing, the topic which is always present in the epic American cinema, <em>the birth of a nation</em>, i.e. the birth of a heterogeneous society, bus substantially united in its aims and motivations and able to support those extraordinary men who are its rampart. So there is not, in Carpenter&rsquo;s view of the society and the world, any great ideal to defend, any community to represent, any institution or power to give life in behalf of, although sometimes it is possible to find in his works a generic humanism, nevertheless pessimistic in its core.<br />When a representative of the scholars, Catherine (<strong><font color="#300be4">Lisa Blount</font></strong>), sacrifices herself falling into the mirror (located in a room into the church) &ndash; the passage to the dimension of (anti)matter-reflection, laying at the borders of our world &ndash; to drive back the noxious power (the &ldquo;Father&rdquo; who is trying to join the &ldquo;Son&rdquo;) in the dimension where he comes from, she does not do it in behalf of a no-existing principle of Good, nor of a society-nation which does not watch its members. On the contrary, she does it for herself and for her friends and colleagues, and, at most, for the rest of a basically unaware and ungrateful human race. Therefore, it is an individual and <em>laical</em> martyrdom, whose final outcome is uncertain, as there are lots of mirrors and door opened on the abyss of the (in)visible.<br /><span></span><br />Written by <strong>Gian Giacomo Petrone</strong><br /><span></span><br />Translation from italian by <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><span></span><br />Reference section: <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html" title="">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><span></span><br />Articolo in versione italiana: <a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/15/post/2014/02/il-signore-del-male-il-visibile-e-linvisibile.html" target="_blank" title=""><u>Il signore del male &ndash; Il visibile e l'invisibile</u></a><br /><span></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  <div class="wsite-youtube" style="margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:0px;"><div class="wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-medium wsite-youtube-align-left"> <div class="wsite-youtube-container">  <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uq_j4DcypdA?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[VISITOR Q - Autopsy of the family]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/visitor-q-autopsy-of-the-family]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/visitor-q-autopsy-of-the-family#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:59:39 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[takashi miike]]></category><category><![CDATA[visitor q]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/visitor-q-autopsy-of-the-family</guid><description><![CDATA[ &ldquo;O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me&rdquo; (Geremia, 20, 7). The Lord, Dionysus, or a simple &ldquo;visitor&rdquo; appears, crushes and destroys a reality that is stable, mummified, still and asleep. A Host who imposes his presence, appearing from nowhere and disappearing into nowhere, in Pier Paolo Pasolini&rsquo;s Teorema like in Miike Takashi&rsquo;s Visitor Q: an apparent Christ&rsquo;s reincarnation or a more secular an [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/462855.jpg?162" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">&ldquo;<em>O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me</em>&rdquo; (Geremia, 20, 7). The Lord, Dionysus, or a simple &ldquo;visitor&rdquo; appears, crushes and destroys a reality that is stable, mummified, still and asleep. A Host who imposes his presence, appearing from nowhere and disappearing into nowhere, in Pier Paolo Pasolini&rsquo;s <em>Teorema</em> like in <strong><font color="#3d0ae8">Miike Takashi</font></strong>&rsquo;s <em>Visitor Q</em>: an apparent Christ&rsquo;s reincarnation or a more secular and profane <em>deus ex machina</em> which, armed with a brick, bursts into the lives of a middle-class nuclear family, deeply upsetting it. Two movies strongly connected to each other, either for the contents and the esthetics, where family&rsquo;s ashes gather, the family intended as a sacred institution and the elementary social cell, exploded and disintegrated from within.<br /><strong><font color="#1306e9">Visitor Q</font></strong> begins with a subtitle: &ldquo;<em>Have you ever laid with your father?</em>&rdquo;. Kiyoshi, <em>pater familias</em> of the Yamazakis, among mirrors and pop lights, shoots the incest with his daughter, Miki; in the first place an embarrassed petting, then, giving up any hesitation, they slide towards the lowest instincts: cunnilingus, fellatio, and eventually the full, savage and furious sexual intercourse. In the end, the father is mocked by the girl as a &ldquo;premature cock&rdquo;, unable to satisfy her and therefore forced to pay the service at a higher price.<br />The first minutes of the movie head the audience&rsquo;s look towards the destruction of an already slowly decomposing family balance, that is supposed to completely collapse. In the following chapter, titled &ldquo;<em>Have you ever beaten your mother?</em>&rdquo;, we are headed in the sick relationship mother-son, closer to the one victim-persecutor, where mom Yamazaki is brutally and without reason beaten by her son. Like in a vertigo, the no-return point is reached: Miike opens the curtain and reveals the vilenesses and the abuses suffered by the family members in their everyday&rsquo;s life, coming from a cruel and brutal society.<br /><em>Visitor Q</em> may be seen as an attempt by the Japanese author to reconstruct, maintain and defend the nuclear family, aim of a Japanese tendency which is interested in subverting the architecture of this elementary institution, made clear in Ishii Sogo&rsquo;s <em>Crazy Family</em> (1984). Like in Pasolini&rsquo;s <em>Teorema</em>, we have here an external element coming to overturn the existing rules. But, while in Pasolini&rsquo;s movie the charming host, performed by Terence Stamp, triggers an unstoppable path leading from family union to individuality, Miike&rsquo;s visitor, with a violent shock therapy, similar to the reciprocal brutality acted by the family members, tries to rebuild the broken situation.<br />The middle-class family portrayed by Pasolini, coming across the external element, is trapped in a whirlwind of passions: then love instincts make the single components &ndash; people chained in convictions and conventions &ndash; free, making them aware of their inner void. Gilles Deleuze wrote in <em>Cinema 1: The Movement-Image</em>: &ldquo;<em>The emissary from outside is the point from where each family member feels an event or affection as determinant, that constitutes a case of the issue</em>&rdquo;; the consequent realization creates sorrow and desperation, but it also represents a path towards freedom. Paolo (the father in <em>Teorema</em>) talks to the host before him leaving: &ldquo;<em>You have come here to destroy. The destruction you have provoked in me could not be more complete. You have simply destroyed the image I have ever had of myself</em>&rdquo;. In Miike&rsquo;s movie the message evolves: &ldquo;<em>One needs to destroy in order to rebuild</em>&rdquo;; the concept of demolition is the basis of the narration in both movies, but while in the first it brings to the recovery of Self, in favour of a subjective individuality, in the second it becomes the reconstruction of the nuclear family, even though the union is strengthened by shallowness and depravation.<br />Incest, drug addiction, necrophilia, prostitution, voyeurism: they are just some of the impieties which belong to the Japanese family &ndash; social cell &ndash; described by Miike; with an anarchic style and an authentic sincerity, the director portraits the perversions and the domestic-collective putrescence, but he just shows, according to his directing and aesthetic standards, and with his usual irreverent sarcasm, the true human nature, describing a shamefully enlightening reality.<br /><span style=""></span><br />Written by <strong>Mariangela Sansone</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br />Translation from italian by <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br />Reference section: <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><span style=""></span><br />Articolo in versione italiana: <u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/15/post/2013/04/visitor-q-recensione-autopsia-della-famiglia.html" target="_blank">Visitor Q - Autopsia della famiglia</a></u><br /><span style=""></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[LOCARNO 2013 - Que d'Amour, de Valérie Donzelli]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/locarno-2013-que-damour-de-valerie-donzelli]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/locarno-2013-que-damour-de-valerie-donzelli#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:15:25 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[festival de locarno]]></category><category><![CDATA[que d'amour]]></category><category><![CDATA[val&eacute;rie donzelli]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/locarno-2013-que-damour-de-valerie-donzelli</guid><description><![CDATA[ Val&eacute;rie Donzelli a &eacute;t&eacute; une protagoniste absolue de Locarno 66. Membre du jury du concours international, on l'a vue aussi comme d&eacute;cha&icirc;n&eacute;e actrice principale en Les Grandes Ondes de Lionel Baier, et comme r&eacute;alisatrice de sa nouvelle &oelig;uvre Que d'amour, dont l'avant-premi&egrave;re mondiale a &eacute;t&eacute; p&eacute;nalis&eacute;e par une programmation sans crit&egrave;re (une seule projection, le soir et en m&ecirc;me temps de la remise de  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/2549199.jpg?162" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;"><strong><font color="#3333ff">Val&eacute;rie Donzelli</font></strong> a &eacute;t&eacute; une protagoniste absolue de <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/locarno-66.html" title="">Locarno 66</a></u>. Membre du jury du concours international, on l'a vue aussi comme d&eacute;cha&icirc;n&eacute;e actrice principale en <u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/27/post/2013/08/locarno-66-les-grandes-ondes-a-louest.html" target="_blank" title="">Les Grandes Ondes</a></u> de Lionel Baier, et comme r&eacute;alisatrice de sa nouvelle &oelig;uvre <em>Que d'amour</em>, dont l'avant-premi&egrave;re mondiale a &eacute;t&eacute; p&eacute;nalis&eacute;e par une programmation sans crit&egrave;re (une seule projection, le soir et en m&ecirc;me temps de la remise de prix &agrave; <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/special-herzog.html" title="">Werner Herzog</a></u>), qu'a donc amen&eacute; en salle un publique pas tr&egrave;s nombreux (mais beaucoup interess&eacute;). La pellicule a &eacute;t&eacute; command&eacute;e par Arte France, quelques auteurs ont &eacute;t&eacute; charg&eacute;s de r&eacute;aliser des pellicules tir&eacute;es de pi&egrave;ces de th&eacute;&acirc;tre tr&egrave;s c&eacute;l&egrave;bres, Val&eacute;rie a choisi une pi&egrave;ce de <strong><font color="#3333ff">Marivaux</font></strong> et a eu la possibilit&eacute; de travailler avec des acteurs de la Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise.&nbsp;<br />Par son regard, comme toujours spontan&eacute; et cr&eacute;atif, on suit l'histoire de Silvia, fianc&eacute;e de Dorante; la fille, pour mieux conna&icirc;tre le caract&egrave;re du futur mari, obtient par son p&egrave;re le permis de se pr&eacute;senter &agrave; lui comme la domestique Lisette, laquelle feint d'&ecirc;tre sa ma&icirc;tresse. Dorante aussi a la m&ecirc;me id&eacute;e, et se pr&eacute;sente comme le domestique Arlecchino, &agrave; son tour travesti de ma&icirc;tre. Les deux couples commen&ccedil;ent un bizarre ballet de fiction et malentendus, les cartes sur la table sont boulevers&eacute;es plusieurs fois, jusqu'au moment o&ugrave;, enfin, lentement, les verit&eacute;s seront devoil&eacute;es.<br />Cin&eacute;ma, th&eacute;&acirc;tre, television: moyens d'expression differents que ici convergent efficacement gr&acirc;ce &agrave; la main habile de Val&eacute;rie Donzelli, encore une fois capable de nous &eacute;tonner avec son m&eacute;lange de humour, imagination, authenticit&eacute;, puret&eacute; d'intentions. <strong><font color="#3333ff">Que d'amour</font></strong> est un jeu amusant et inoffensif qui coule facilment, capable de ne se prende trop au s&eacute;rieux et qui s'aquitte de son devoir sans envol&eacute;es po&eacute;tiques. Tromperies, sursauts du c&oelig;ur, coups de foudre, d&eacute;guisements, boutades d&eacute;sorientantes, innocentes seductions et irr&eacute;sistibles passions, personnages avec des petits cartons accroch&eacute;s &agrave; la poitrine qui expliquent leur r&ocirc;le en un certain moment, sous-titres du cin&eacute;ma muet, voix off, arcs-en-ciel, chansons: pour la ni&egrave;me fois Donzelli enthousiasme pour la vitalit&eacute; absolue de son cin&eacute;ma.<br />Au fond, c'est justement pour &ccedil;a qu'on l'aime si profondement: elle est une femme qui a d&eacute;sormais obtenu un grand succ&eacute;s au niveau international, mais qui est encore capable de s'&eacute;motionner comme une enfante en d&eacute;couvrant l'imposant panorama des 8000 personnes qui ont assist&eacute; &agrave; <em>Les Grandes Ondes</em> en Piazza Grande, ou rire de bon c&oelig;ur pendant le film (on le dit en toute certitude parce qu'on &eacute;tait assis a deux m&egrave;tres d'elle) et se surprendre devant le chaleureux applaudissement que le publique lui offre au fond du Que d'amour.<br />On parle d'une autrice qui, &agrave; partir de son commencement en 2001, pour arriver au d&eacute;but comme r&eacute;alisatrice avec <em>La reine des pommes</em>, en continuant avec le merveilleux <em>La guerre est d&eacute;clar&eacute;e</em> et avec <em>Main dans la main</em>, continue de communiquer un id&eacute;e de cin&eacute;ma pure, armonieuse, anticonformiste, super fraiche, sans aucun frein, capable de regarder au pass&eacute; et de vivre la contemporan&eacute;it&eacute; avec un admirable &eacute;quilibre expressif. Le sourire malicieux de Val&eacute;rie nous rappelle toujours que fiction et realit&eacute; sont deux faces de la m&ecirc;me m&eacute;daille, et que l'Art, avant tout, est (et devrait toujours &ecirc;tre) joie et libert&eacute;.<br /><br />&Eacute;crit par <strong>Alessio Gradogna</strong><br /><br />Traduction par <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Section de r&eacute;f&eacute;rence: <u><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html" title="">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></u><br /><br />Article original: <u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/27/post/2013/08/locarno-66-que-damour-di-valerie-donzelli.html" target="_blank" title="">Locarno 66 - Que d'amour, di Val&eacute;rie Donzelli</a></u></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CANNES 2013 - La vie d'Adèle, de Abdellatif Kechiche]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-2013-revue-la-vie-dadele-de-abdellatif-kechiche]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-2013-revue-la-vie-dadele-de-abdellatif-kechiche#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:58:51 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[abdellatif kechiche]]></category><category><![CDATA[la vie d'adele]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/cannes-2013-revue-la-vie-dadele-de-abdellatif-kechiche</guid><description><![CDATA[ Faire oublier le cin&egrave;ma que vous avez vu et ce que vous verrez: La vie d'Ad&egrave;le a ce pouvoir, cette force singuli&egrave;re et unique, que quand se materialise on ne peut que crier au miracle. Car le film de Abdellatif Kechiche parle tout simplement une autre langue, fort d'un lexique impur et grav&eacute; dans la realit&eacute; autentique, celle la plus vraie et odorante: trois heures et sept minutes de vie qui coule comme eau parmi les doigts, plaines et uniques, effront&eacute;e [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/7394474.jpg?172" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">Faire oublier le cin&egrave;ma que vous avez vu et ce que vous verrez: <strong><font color="#3333ff">La vie d'Ad&egrave;le</font></strong> a ce pouvoir, cette force singuli&egrave;re et unique, que quand se materialise on ne peut que crier au miracle. Car le film de <strong><font color="#3333ff">Abdellatif Kechiche </font></strong>parle tout simplement une autre langue, fort d'un lexique impur et grav&eacute; dans la realit&eacute; autentique, celle la plus vraie et odorante: trois heures et sept minutes de vie qui coule comme eau parmi les doigts, plaines et uniques, effront&eacute;es et tr&egrave;s libres.<br />La morve au nez, les cheveux de la protagoniste relev&eacute;s en une queue sauvage pendant que ils se d&eacute;menent au son de la hit de Lykke Li <em style="">I Follow Rivers</em>, langueurs, larmes de plaisir, de sinc&egrave;re euphorie et profonde tristesse, halos de sauce sur les l&eacute;vres torrides et affam&eacute;es, la chose la plus charnelle que la vie peut offrir. Celle vie de la quelle Kechiche vole, en harcelant la realit&eacute; de tr&egrave;s proche, tellement que notre perception se &eacute;grene et on est forc&eacute; de s'identifier totalement. Il ya tellement de vraie vie, dans le film, que l'aphorisme de Cocteau selon lequel le cin&eacute;ma serait la <em style="">mort au travail</em> pourrait m&ecirc;me &ecirc;tre mis en discussion.<br />En fait, ici ce sont les pulsions du vitalisme le plus absolu &agrave; siffler dans la boue vaseuse des choses, en s'alimentant &agrave; une source in&eacute;puisable de plaisirs et sensations br&ucirc;lantes. Sur l'&eacute;cran on voit d&eacute;filer un proces de maturation dont on per&ccedil;oit phisiquement les singules phases, en tant que &agrave; la fin de tout Ad&eacute;le &ndash; mais sa copine de vie et de lit Emma (<strong><font color="#3333ff">L&eacute;a Seydoux</font></strong>) aussi &ndash; on a la sensation de les conna&icirc;tre depuis toujours, comme vieilles amies dont les battements semblent si r&eacute;els qu'on pourrait les serrer au c&oelig;ur comme on fait avec l'oreiller pendant qu'on se endormit. Famili&egrave;res, tr&egrave;s loines, car rel&eacute;gu&eacute;es dans le royaume de la fiction, et pourtant jamais si proches de l'experience directe du spectateur.<br /><em style="">La vie d'Ad&egrave;le</em>, avec sa division en chapitres, devient d&eacute;j&agrave; une sorte de saga &agrave; la mani&egrave;re de Truffaut ou de Doinel, de la quelle on attend en tr&eacute;pignant les developpements successifs. Avec douceur, sans effets ni cin&eacute;matographiques ni litteraires &ndash; m&ecirc;me si le film s'inspire id&eacute;alement &agrave; <em style="">La vie de Marianne</em> de Marivaux &ndash; Kechiche nous a offert un fragment fluvial et torrentiel de verit&eacute; absolue que a le m&eacute;rite de ne mimer les raccourcis du cin&eacute;ma <em style="">verit&eacute;</em>, en tournant l'obstacle des d&eacute;finitions rigides. Des deux protagonistes et de leur amour lesbien et universel, ces premi&egrave;rs plans omnipr&eacute;sents qui permettent tr&egrave;s peu de totales nous rendent la prise directe, l'&eacute;panouissement incessant de deux fleurs tr&egrave;s beaux et pr&eacute;cieux, comme &agrave; en scruter les organes int&eacute;rieurs et ext&eacute;rieurs moins litt&eacute;rairement nobles du c&oelig;ur, mais sans nous les montrer jamais, en niant s&eacute;cr&eacute;tions et &icirc;les de plaisir dans un m&eacute;canisme de r&eacute;ticences qui sublime le sexe comme &oelig;uvre plastique d'art, &eacute;loign&eacute;e de la pornographie et de l'asservissement &agrave; un imaginaire pour l'usage de la pens&eacute;e masturbatoire masculine.<br />Kechiche se limite &agrave; montrer cette histoire dans sa simplicit&eacute;, comme elle est; un <em style="">girl meets girl</em> fait de sourires que changent en bisous pareils &agrave; morsures, de sexe merveilleux, de corps qui se fr&ocirc;lent violemment et se surponent haletants comme portails d'erotisme joyeux. La nourriture, les pages d'un livre, un banc, deux visages proches dans la lumi&egrave;re d'un soleil ti&egrave;de: tout cela est <em style="">La vie d'Ad&egrave;le</em>, un film qui simule la perception du &laquo;temps de la vie&raquo; de Bergson, sans ellipses et trucs, qui dure trois heures mais qui pourrait durer &agrave; jamais et on en n'aurait marre du tout.<br />Camera &agrave; main, focales longues, un bum bum continu d'assauts aux senses, cin&eacute;ma &agrave; la limite qui d&eacute;passe la fronti&egrave;re de la fiction en l'abattant avec la m&ecirc;me furieuse, raffermie douceur des merveilleux rapports sexuels des protagonistes. D'ailleurs, le sexe est une question plus mentale que phisique, et il ne peut pas exister dans sa forme la plus irr&eacute;sistible et passionnelle sans avant avoir partag&eacute; une vision commune du monde, ou sans avant avoir &eacute;t&eacute; <em style="">encadr&eacute;</em> du m&ecirc;me rayon de soleil &eacute;blouissant qui fend un pr&eacute; pendant un picnic. &laquo;<em style="">Ne pense pas &agrave; qui est l'objet de l'amour, pense &agrave; l'amour</em>&raquo;. Ainsi comme en ce cas on ne pense pas au cin&eacute;ma et &agrave; la litterature comme objets &agrave; modeler pour l'usage de l'auteur, mais, comme on a dit, on va directement &agrave; la vie, dans le film et plus en general dans l'id&eacute;e du cin&eacute;ma de Kechiche, qui en ce cas plus que jamais avait trouv&egrave; une mat&eacute;rialisation tellement lumineuse, &agrave; la quelle on ne peut pas r&eacute;noncer.<br />Dans la protagoniste <strong><font color="#3333ff">Ad&egrave;le Exarchopoulos</font></strong>, &laquo;counturn&eacute;e et folle&raquo;, pourtant tendre et tr&egrave;s banale en noyant la douleur dans le chocolat, aussi comme dans l'ouverture de sa bouche charnue qui r&eacute;vele les dents pro&eacute;minents, s'insinue tout le charme transpirent et ample d'un film qui n'a pas peur de se d&eacute;fouler et de se donner, et il le fait sans rien demander en &eacute;change, impudique et triomphant dans son absolue g&eacute;n&eacute;rosit&eacute;. La chair, le gras qui coule, le jus de la vie qui bouillit encore et encore. Et puis se mouiller avec les larmes de l'aim&eacute;e, les deux seulement et personne d'autre, si proches qui se touchent en profondeur. Belles et douces, se regarder et se respirer. Le regard viol&eacute; par la fatigue et par le poids de sa propre arte d'Emma, ses cheveux bleus. Le muscle de la mandibule de Ad&egrave;le qui se contracte en une fossette amus&eacute;e ou accompagne la rougeur d&eacute;sinvolte d'un visage embarrass&eacute; ou counturn&eacute; ou d&eacute;figur&eacute; par une sensualit&eacute; sauvage, selon les instants. Le tr&egrave;s faible, mais enchant&eacute; myst&egrave;re des visages et des cr&eacute;atures humaines, qui se d&eacute;coupe sur toute autre chose.<br /><span style=""></span><br />&Eacute;crit par <strong>Davide Eustachio Stanzione</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br />Traduction par <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br />Section de r&eacute;f&eacute;rence: <a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html"><u>English/Fran&ccedil;ais</u></a><br /><span style=""></span><br />Article original: &nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/25/post/2013/06/cannes-2013-recensione-la-vie-dadele-di-abdellatif-kechiche.html" target="_blank">Cannes 2013 - La vie d'Ad&egrave;le</a></u><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAMILLE CLAUDEL, 1915 – Éloge de la folie]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/camille-claudel-1915-critique-eloge-de-la-folie]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/camille-claudel-1915-critique-eloge-de-la-folie#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:15:37 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[bruno dumont]]></category><category><![CDATA[camille claudel 1915]]></category><category><![CDATA[juliette binoche]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/camille-claudel-1915-critique-eloge-de-la-folie</guid><description><![CDATA[ Un instant. Une seconde cach&eacute;e dans la douleur de l&rsquo;eternit&eacute;. Un moment d&rsquo;attente et d&rsquo;espoir, dans lequel canaliser le r&ecirc;ve d&rsquo;une libert&egrave; d&eacute;sormais ni&eacute;e. Le regard au del&agrave; des murs, au del&agrave; de la haie, vers un horizon de bonheur qui se couvre de nuages parmi les trajectoires obscures d&rsquo;un present sans lumi&egrave;re. Un &eacute;clat de rire parfum&eacute; de deuil, parmi les couches ratatin&eacute;es d&rsquo;u [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/7456443.jpg?200" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">Un instant. Une seconde cach&eacute;e dans la douleur de l&rsquo;eternit&eacute;. Un moment d&rsquo;attente et d&rsquo;espoir, dans lequel canaliser le r&ecirc;ve d&rsquo;une libert&egrave; d&eacute;sormais ni&eacute;e. Le regard au del&agrave; des murs, au del&agrave; de la haie, vers un horizon de bonheur qui se couvre de nuages parmi les trajectoires obscures d&rsquo;un present sans lumi&egrave;re. Un &eacute;clat de rire parfum&eacute; de deuil, parmi les couches ratatin&eacute;es d&rsquo;une vie que n&rsquo;est plus &ccedil;a.<br />N&eacute;e en 1864, s&oelig;ur a&icirc;n&eacute;e du grand &eacute;crivain Paul, <strong><font color="#3333ff">Camille Claudel</font></strong> fut une sculptrice de grand succ&eacute;s. Sa jeunesse fut bless&eacute;e par la relation longue et orageuse avec Auguste Rodin: les deux travaill&egrave;rent ensemble et s&rsquo;aim&egrave;rent beaucoup, mais l&rsquo;homme ne voluit jamais l&rsquo;&eacute;pouser, ne trouvant pas le courage de quitter sa copine officielle. &Agrave; un moment donn&eacute;, il la quitta. Depuis Camille, d&eacute;chir&eacute;e par la souffrance, commen&ccedil;a a montrer des signes de folie mentale. Quelques ann&eacute;es plus tard, son fr&egrave;re et sa m&egrave;re fairent l&rsquo;enfermer dans un centre de soin, &ograve;u elle resta jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; la fin de ses jours, &agrave; la demande de sa famille m&ecirc;me, malgr&eacute; l&rsquo;avis contraire des m&eacute;decins.<br /><strong><font color="#3333ff">Bruno Dumont</font></strong>, l&rsquo;un des auteurs les plus talentueux et contrevers&eacute;s du cin&eacute;ma fran&ccedil;ais contemporain, le realisateur de <em>La vie de J&eacute;sus</em> et <em>Hors Satan</em>, a choisi de rempoter sur le grand &eacute;cran l&rsquo;histoire de Camille, d&eacute;j&agrave; analys&eacute;e dans l&rsquo;homonyme pellicule de 1988 avec Isabelle Adjani. En se fondant sur les journaux de la femme et de Paul, Dumont a d&eacute;cid&eacute; de photographier un petit segment des longues ann&eacute;es d&rsquo;hospitalisation forc&eacute;e de la protagoniste, en sondant le d&eacute;tail comme croisement de l&rsquo;universel, parmi les tournures d&rsquo;une mise en sc&egrave;ne sacr&eacute;e, soufferte, impr&eacute;gn&eacute;e de lyrisme et vain espoir.<br />Dans la pellicule, Camille vit &agrave; grand-peine sa captivit&eacute;, en oscillant parmi manies de pers&eacute;cution, extr&ecirc;me ennui, aig&uuml;es crises de pleur, imprevues d&eacute;chirures de s&eacute;r&eacute;nit&eacute;. Autour d&rsquo;elle, les autres patients du centre de soin vivent leur existences, entre absence de conscience et (rares) soupirs de lucidit&eacute;. Camille s&rsquo;assoit sur un banc, se balade, se d&eacute;sesp&eacute;re, assiste &agrave; un petite pi&egrave;ce de th&eacute;&acirc;tre, &eacute;crit a une amie perdue, passe dans l&rsquo;oubli les longues heures de chaque jour, aide les grabataires incapables de comprendre. Et surtout elle attend, avec une anxi&eacute;t&eacute; mal dissimul&eacute;e, l&rsquo;imminente visite de son fr&egrave;re Paul, avec l&rsquo;espoir de pouvoir enfin obtenir la permission de regagner sa libert&eacute; convoit&eacute;e et perdue. Un d&eacute;sir insatiable, qui ne pourra jamais &ecirc;tre satisfait.<br />Apr&egrave;s l&rsquo;&eacute;l&eacute;giaque et tr&egrave;s intense <em>Hors Satan</em>, Dumont continue dans le chemin spirituel d&eacute;sormais d&eacute;finitivement entrepris, en renferment la narration dans un triomphe de temps suspendus, regards silencieux, longs et tranchants gros plans. Tourn&eacute; dans un vrai centre de soin pr&egrave;s d&rsquo;Avignon, avec des veritables malades, present&eacute; en concours &agrave; Berlin et ignor&eacute; par le jury, <strong><font color="#3333ff">Camille Claudel 1915</font></strong> a un style difficile, de quelque fa&ccedil;on extr&egrave;me, un peu trop rar&eacute;fi&eacute; sourtout dans la deuxi&egrave;me partie, dans laquelle l&rsquo;auteur met en sc&egrave;ne le personnage de Paul en lui offrant des longues et parfois redondantes r&eacute;pliques dedi&eacute;es au sens de la religion et au vrai visage de Dieu. Dissertations m&ecirc;me superflues, qui d&rsquo;ailleurs enlevent rien a l&rsquo;&eacute;fficacit&eacute; d&rsquo;un r&eacute;cit semblable &agrave; l&rsquo;aspiration d&rsquo;un incertain soleil renferm&eacute; dans une mer en temp&ecirc;te, un requiem chant&eacute; devant la croix d&rsquo;une condamnation aveugle et &eacute;go&iuml;ste, dans laquelle le chemin de la protagoniste s&rsquo;&eacute;ventre et la transforme en un martyr.<br />Pour accomplir sa triste litanie, Dumont compte sur la meilleure c&oelig;ur existante pour une op&eacute;ration aussi compl&eacute;xe: <strong><font color="#3333ff">Juliette Binoche</font></strong>, qui, apr&egrave;s les exc&egrave;s orgasmiques du pr&eacute;c&eacute;dent <em>Elles</em>, soul&egrave;ve &agrave; la nuit des temps une interpr&eacute;tation sublime, merveilleuse, extraordinaire. Sans maquillage, avec le visage d&eacute;fait, Binoche se d&eacute;nude pour le realisateur et pour nous, d&eacute;vore la cam&eacute;ra, dont elle devient propri&eacute;taire et amante, esclave et ma&icirc;tresse, en montrant dans chaque sc&egrave;ne une variet&eacute; impressionnante de sensations et de nuances. D&rsquo;un instant &agrave; l&rsquo;autre on la voit rire, pleurer, se bercer aver yeux d&rsquo;enfant, imploser pour la col&egrave;re; et de nouveau rire, pleurer, esp&eacute;rer et enfin s&rsquo;&eacute;crouler. On la regarderait pour des heures, des jours, &agrave; jamais.&nbsp;<br />Au risque de para&icirc;tre blasph&eacute;matoire, sa performance nous rappelle, pour sa profondeur &eacute;motionelle, la l&eacute;gendaire Ren&eacute;e Falconetti de <em>La passion de Jeanne d&rsquo;Arc</em> de Dreyer: un triomphe de pure habilet&eacute; de r&eacute;citation, pour celle qu&rsquo;on croit est sans conteste la meilleure actrice non seulement du cin&eacute;ma europ&eacute;en, mais sur la sc&egrave;ne mondiale. Et pas seulement &agrave; partir d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui, or hier. Merci, Juliette.<br /><br />&Eacute;crit par <strong>Alessio Gradogna</strong><br /><br />Traduction par <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Section de r&eacute;f&eacute;rence:</span> <span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html" title="">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Article original: </span><a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/13/post/2013/05/camille-claudel-1915-elogio-della-follia.html" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.5;" title="">Camille Claudel, 1915 - Elogio della follia</a><br /></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LORDS OF SALEM - The triumph of Evil]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-lords-of-salem-film-review-the-triumph-of-evil]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-lords-of-salem-film-review-the-triumph-of-evil#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:20:01 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[rob zombie]]></category><category><![CDATA[sheri moon]]></category><category><![CDATA[the lords of salem]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-lords-of-salem-film-review-the-triumph-of-evil</guid><description><![CDATA[ We begin with an introduction. In the undersigned&rsquo;s opinion, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil&rsquo;s Rejects are, together with Laugier&rsquo;s Martyrs, the best horror movies of the last decade. Shattering, devastating masterpieces, showing an astonishing ardor.Consequently, the wait for Rob Zombie&rsquo;s comeback, after the discussed breaks of the couple of Halloweens and the playful experience of the wild The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, was huge, if we consider that the proje [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/9568265.jpg?157" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">We begin with an introduction. In the undersigned&rsquo;s opinion, <em>House of 1000 Corpses</em> and <em>The Devil&rsquo;s Rejects</em> are, together with Laugier&rsquo;s <em>Martyrs</em>, the best horror movies of the last decade. Shattering, devastating masterpieces, showing an astonishing ardor.<br />Consequently, the wait for <strong><font color="#3333ff">Rob Zombie</font></strong>&rsquo;s comeback, after the discussed breaks of the couple of <em>Halloweens</em> and the playful experience of the wild <em>The Haunted World of El Superbeasto</em>, was huge, if we consider that the project of <strong><font color="#3333ff">The Lords of Salem</font></strong> had been arising in the director/musician&rsquo;s mind for many years.<br />Moreover, not only the undersigned, but all the horror genre&rsquo;s lovers and the audience in general had some almost feverish expectations. Last November we had the most blatant demonstration of this fact, on the occasion of the Italian preview at the Torino Film Festival. During the event, both professionals and general audience crowded the movie theaters, also for the repeats, someone even almost crossing Italy to participate to what, actually, turned to be a great event.<br />As it always happens in such occasions, the wish to enthuse was as big as the fear to be bitterly disappointed. In the end, the verdicts have been fluctuating, controversial, and will remain as such. As far as we are concerned, we say right now that <em>The Lords of Salem</em> does not reach the unprecedented tops of the first two Rob Zombie&rsquo;s movies. Nevertheless, we face another work full of a rare energy, and the rocker proves by far to be the most significant talent expressed by the &ldquo;genre cinema&rdquo; in the recent years.<br />Realizing a project he has been chasing for a long time, Mr. Robert Cummings chose for it an even classic approach, giving up the surprising style mixture of his debut; on the contrary, he built a typical horror nightmare, where the bloody tendencies join the suspended times. The young Heidi works as disc-jockey in a radio station of a small town. One day she receives a package containing the disc of a mysterious and unknown band. Listening to it, she begins to be persecuted by some macabre dreams which bring her in a witchcraft journey set in the past times. Little by little, Heidi loses contact with the reality to become, despite herself, the protagonist of a nefarious sabbath that is supposed to bring again to life some demonic creatures buried in oblivion, and now ready to emerge from darkness.<br />To develop the plot, Zombie proceeds slowly, without being captured by the usual fury, and chooses an accurate, moderate, linear way of shooting. Almost conformist, we could say. The witches of Salem come back to demand their role, shocking the life of a dj chosen as the victim to be violated to assure the conception of the demonic entity: the past times eat the present times, the popular belief becomes reality, the peace of everyday&rsquo;s life is wiped out. Evil, a centuries-old and indestructible tool, emerges from hibernation to trap the protagonist among the dark tentacles of damnation, and the blasphemous disharmony shows its deadly plan for destruction.<br />Conformist, we said, but only to a certain point. Zombie, currently in the spotlight due to the release of his new and already appreciated album <em>Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor</em>, does not limit himself to the mere juxtaposition of traumatic elements: he goes over the primary texture and adds a surprising iconoclast tension, destroying every consolatory possibility. Besides, he donates little roles to his fetish actors Ken Foree, Sid Haig and Michael Berryman, members of the rejects&rsquo; family we now know very well; he pays homage to Polanski&rsquo;s <em>Rosemary&rsquo;s Baby</em> and puts into the plot some unpredictable and extreme elements.<br />Anyway, two factors make <em>The Lords of Salem</em> an unforgettable movie. The first has a (fake) name and surname: <strong><font color="#3333ff">Sheri Moon</font></strong>. As always, but this time more than ever, the author celebrates his wife without restraint, showing with obsessive attention every centimetre of her body; he gives her a contrasted appearance, where sensuality joins an almost childlike tenderness; he puts her in the core of every intuition, this way realising the ultimate glorification of an overwhelmingly beautiful woman, reaching in this movie the top of her career.<br />The second factor lies in the incredible visual talent of Zombie, still able to find surprising sonic and stage inventions. The camera &ldquo;flies&rdquo; in our visual field, the locations have multiform points of view, the representation of the unholy creatures escapes any ancestral definition, the union between musical clips and image quality almost reaches perfection. A magnetic hell of creativity, where grandiose sequences come from. One for all: the first entrance of Heidi in the cathedral where the <em>King of the Night</em> waits for her. Thrilling.<br /><br />Written by <strong>Alessio Gradogna</strong><br /><br />Translation from italian by <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Reference section: <a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a><br /><br />Articolo in versione italiana: <a href="http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/12/post/2013/04/le-streghe-di-salem-recensione-film-il-trionfo-del-male.html" title="">Le streghe di Salem - Il trionfo del male</a></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE BAY – The death of a nation]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-bay-film-review-the-death-of-a-nation]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-bay-film-review-the-death-of-a-nation#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:55:41 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[barry levinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[the bay]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfra/the-bay-film-review-the-death-of-a-nation</guid><description><![CDATA[ We needed the class of a veteran like Barry Levinson (born in 1942) to give back lifeblood to the &ldquo;found footage&rdquo;: a sub-genre born from the ashes of The Blair Witch Project, or, if you prefer, from those of the infamous and already historic Ruggero Deodato&rsquo;s Cannibal Holocaust. The occurrence of the P.O.V. (Point of View, or &ldquo;handy-cam movies&rdquo;) has become in the recent years a golden goose for contemporary American cinema, especially as far as the horror genre is  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/uploads/7/8/6/3/7863172/1435785.jpg?141" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Immagine" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;display:block;">We needed the class of a veteran like <strong><font color="#3333ff">Barry Levinson</font></strong> (born in 1942) to give back lifeblood to the &ldquo;found footage&rdquo;: a sub-genre born from the ashes of <em>The Blair Witch Project</em>, or, if you prefer, from those of the infamous and already historic Ruggero Deodato&rsquo;s <em>Cannibal Holocaust</em>. The occurrence of the P.O.V. (Point of View, or &ldquo;handy-cam movies&rdquo;) has become in the recent years a golden goose for contemporary American cinema, especially as far as the horror genre is concerned.<br />But not all that glitters is gold, as most of the movies produced proved to be just a spent repetition of milk-and-water ideas and stylistic features, sons of an idea of cinema that is at least poor and abused. With some (great) exceptions: first, the masterpiece by Romero, <em>Diary of the Dead</em>, a real set-up of a cognitive fail opposite to the fragmentation of images, a theoretical essay about the impossibility to give a complete representation of the Reality surrounding us; but, in the second instance, the nevertheless great [<em>REC</em>] by Jaume Balaguer&ograve; and <em>Chronicle</em> by Josh Tank. <strong><font color="#3333ff">The Bay</font></strong> is located into the same coordinates, but instead of dealing with the genre using the theoretical reflection, it prefers focusing on the content: the virus is no more the image (as it is in <em>Diary of the Dead</em>), but it is inside us, deep-rooted into our community (society); eyes &ndash; cameras, mobiles, Skype, etc. &ndash; cannot help but record the consequences. So Barry Levinson uses modern technologies to look back to the old cinema: from Steven Spielberg&rsquo;s <em>Jaws</em> to the great political horror movies of the Seventies and the Eighties, those who became a crooked and deforming point of view on the everyday society. The troublesome, not reconciled horror movies, far from the trend of dominant thought: the horror movies whose aim was first to describe the humanity and the frailty of the infrastructures created by themselves.<br />And <em>The Bay</em> actually looks back to the past: it is a movie where everything has already happened, some years ago, in a waterside of Maryland. A small harbour where families go on vacation to celebrate the 4th of July, a sort of island of happiness where the average American man puts his trust and hope in, the trust and hope that are parts of the most famous dream of the Big Country. But it is a dream that little by little becomes a nightmare: the level of toxicity of the waters, provoked by the irresponsible business policies of the place, produces a parasite that begins to take control of the people, changing the national holiday in uncontrolled killings. Nowadays, some years after, an aspiring journalist survived to the events tries to put together the depositions of that day, with all the audiovisual material collected.<br />So <em>The Bay</em> becomes the tale of a nation&rsquo;s collapse, destroyed from within exactly in the moment of its greatest magnificence, the moment when it is ready to celebrate itself (Independence Day): for the first time in his career, Levinson uses the stylistic features of horror genre to paint a dark and pessimistic tableau of America, ruled by a creeping chaos which floods freely without anyone fixing it. And it is a chaos which comes from within: no terrorist threat, no external intervention; the cancer is already, irreparably, inside us. Through the cinema, we cannot help but put up the unstoppable proliferation of the metastasis.<br />Using the typical features of the <em>found footage</em>, <em>The Bay</em> desperately tries to show what does not exist, what has not been showed yet: a past (though very close), told with the tools of the digital future; in this contradiction lies the core of the movie, permeated by an apocalyptic vision of a world, ours, which will not die because of the aliens or other stuff. Simply, it will end when nobody <em>able to see</em> remains.<br /><br />Written by <strong>Giacomo Calzoni</strong><br /><br />Translation from italian by <strong>Fabio Tasso</strong><br /><br />Reference section: <a href="https://www.orizzontidigloria.com/englishfranccedilais.html">English/Fran&ccedil;ais</a></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>