2024-08-17 14:00:04
It is a book of games for female directors, dancing that has been eagerly awaited throughout the Locarno festival (Switzerland), which takes place in summer from August 7 to 17. At the end of the 77th edition, the Golden Leopard awarded Achilles (Wealthyworld title), the first feature film by Lithuanian Saule Bliuvaite, by the commission of the director by the Austrian director Jessica Hausner.
Presented on the last day of the competition, Wealthy a group of young girls who dream of leaving their village lost in the middle of nowhere. The local agency that promises jobs in Paris or New York becomes the center of attraction, and slim girls seem to be ready to do anything to lose a few more centimeters of their waist ( giving themselves vomit, among other things), reconnecting with actions they thought to be primitive.
In a blue, less beautiful, the camera follows the two of them, between the passion and the angry desire not to end up like their parents – the disenchanted air of the main actress and model Vesta Matulyte sometimes borders on a stand. Still this children’s film Darkness, against the social norms of thinness, is not without renewal with the themes developed by Jessica Hausner, especially in her new film, Club Zero (2023), examined eating disorders among a group of students.
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The special jury prize goes to Mond (Moon) by Kurdish and Austrian Kurdwin Ayub, one of the most passionate thrillers in the competition, working on the collision of cultures (Western and Middle Eastern), carried with the bodies of metal by the artist Florentina Holzinger, known for her original shows: she plays an MMA (mixed martial arts) coach who agrees to teach three sisters from a wealthy family in Jordan. There, he was devastated.
Another Lithuanian filmmaker (and cinematographer), Laurynas Bareisa, was recognized with the award for best director for Sess (Drowning Dry). For a while, the four actors in this play won one of the actor’s awards, but it must be said that their score is also virtuoso and harmonious: they play two couples damaged by male stereotypes, before the director decided to “break” his story to drink. and a morbid, but thrilling, environment: watching his troupe of actors closely, making them repeat the stages and work on the epic, the director will give an unexpected breadth to the feature film of one hour and just half.
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