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dimanche 25 septembre 2011

Toronto Film Festival: praise of the minor

Toronto has emerged in recent years as one of the biggest international festivals, with the size of its market, as well as its selection bloated and uncompetitive. Among the more than 300 selected, there were any, often cheered by an audience well-behaved: prestige movies en route to the Oscars, raw red carpet, film international authors looking for a niche U.S. ...
But the most beautiful films were to be found in another category, a category could not be described by borrowing a term to music in a minor key. Is quietly brilliant films, free from the usual expectations of the international festival eager to punch, made by filmmakers rather old, having nothing to prove but still to play. Films for fun, then.
The most impressive of all, you are talked about, it Twixt Francis Ford Coppola, Film Jokes and humorous child, as well as a poignant elegy to the memory of his son died, Giancarlo. The inverse of a masterpiece, just a great film.
The crude portraits "20 Cigarettes"
To be more difficult then freed the American James Benning (experimental film giant, still little known in France until his retrospective at the Jeu de Paume last year) who signs a film with 20 Cigarettes on one of the few landscapes he had not yet explored: the face. The device is, as often at home, elementary twenty of his friends, leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette, still shot, close, twenty portraits no frills, referring to Warhol's famous Screen Tests, and twenty times the incomparable joy to experience the beauty of the world picked up on a meditative face, as if the entire history of cinema fell back on those 99 minutes fag in mouth.
Also to find joy, thirteen years after The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman of New York at the helm of a new film, his fourth: Damsels in Distress. This "Woody Allen's gay" - or "Rohmer New York", it depends - and somewhat forgotten in France, signed a campus movie hilarious dialogues chiseled, brushed, with tender irony, the portrait of the gilded youth east coast.

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