With only four feature films, the Director has established itself in the forefront of the world cinema. Now you must decide on the award of the Golden lion. Lucrecia Martel has a flair for sensual cinema.
Lucrecia Martel will only look at two films from Director leading women. The Rest comes from men. Two of 21, which is a meager balance sheet. In the competition of 76. Venice film festival (28.8.-7.9.) the films from Saudi Arabia-born film Director Haifaa al-Mansour, and the Australian’s Shannon Murphy are only in the process.
“Unfortunately, the Director, are still in the minority,” said festival Director Alberto Barbera, in the run-up to desFestivals and tried to calm down at the same time: “But also by male Directors featured portraits of Women reveal a new Form of sensitivity of the female universe, which in the past was rarely the case.”
Lucrecia Martel is a true Festival-professional
The nomination of Lucrecia Martel as the Jury President should at least provide some kind of balance between the sexes. Martel already has plenty of experience in Jury employees. In 2002, she was a member of the Berlinale Jury four years later, she was allowed to decide the Cannes film festival, who gets the Palme d’or. And also in Venice, she sat in 2008 in the Jury.
Lucrecia Martel repeated in the Venice Jury: Alberto Barbera
Now it is so, for the first time at the top of such a body. And also as a Director, as a Competitor with its own Film, knows you well on the international festival parquet. With your “only” four movies it was almost always in the three major film festivals in the world, an amazing balance.
But anyone who has seen Martel, for example, in the past year, at the Festival in Munich, where her retrospective was aligned, you can understand why this woman is so invited often and the likes of the festival creators. The Director has something to say, she talks wisely about the cinema, about the relationship between art and society. Martel, a savvy conversationalist is.
Martel protagonist wading through deep mud
You could feel in the Rest in 2001 when they debut their feature film “The mud”, in competition at the Berlin film presented to festival. In “La Ciénaga” (original title) tells of a large family from the Argentine Bourgeoisie, who spends their holiday in Salta, the provincial capital in the North-East of the homonymous province. In Salta Martel in 1966, was also born there, she knows so.
Suffer from the heat and the dull hopelessness of the protagonists in “The morass”
In long settings, Martel penetrates into the Film in the Psyche of their protagonists, told of boredom and decadence, desire and conflict. Two worlds describes Martel in “The morass”, the children feel that there is still a whole other world beyond childlike exuberance opens up, and the adults don’t know what to do with their feelings and the paralyzing boredom.
The Sultry crippling the protagonists in “The morass”
“La Ciénaga means” The swamp “or” The quagmire “translated”, and a swamp of emotions, it is also in Martel’s debut. A little links to the “discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie” of the Spanish-Mexican Director Luis Buñuel. The bourgeois charm, the Buñuel in 1972, conjured on the canvas, played out above all at the table. In the case of Martel a, dominated in “The morass” all-pervading heat and Humidity, which added to the protagonists and paralyzes. In Berlin they brought in in 2001, the “Alfred Bauer prize” for the best debut.
The Director in the last year of the tribute from the film festival in Munich
In 2004, Lucrecia Martel, presented in competition at the Cannes film festival with her second Film “The Holy girl”. A mother and her daughter living in a run-down Hotel. One day, a medical Congress, one of the participants meets there turns out to be a pedophile. It comes to a catastrophe. This is also a Film with few dialogues, tells the cracked Psyche of the protagonists, mainly about pictures, settings, and Assembly.
Headless protagonists – Martels views of the society
Again, four years later, Martel is once again in Cannes, where she shows off her third Film, “The woman without head”, the psychogram of a woman who commits to an accident, the driver escape. Martels yet last movie “Zama” was celebrated two years ago at the site of the world premiere, at the to decide now about the films of the biennial competition in Venice.
Where does Don Diego de Zama?
In “Zama” was the Director for the first time with a male protagonist in the spotlight: Don Diego de Zama relegated to the end of the 18th century. Century as a Spanish colonial official of a laborious existence. His dearest wish, the dislocation in the capital, Buenos Aires, shattered. Out of desperation, Zama closes, finally, the murderous hunt a dreaded bandit and has to pay a high price.
“Zama” shows the history of colonialism from the other side
Also, “Zama” is the portrait of a man on the search and, as always with this Director, a Film that seems to be on the search of a coherent plot and tension, according to the world behind the superficial events, this time in the case of a period film. “The principle of disorientation” belong to Martel’s trademark, was the verdict of a German newspaper after the Premiere of “Zama” very aptly.
Magical worlds of images in “Zama”
Martel himself said about their last movie: “I would like to explore the past with the same disrespect that we think otherwise about the future.” She wanted to try, “document not relevant artifacts and facts – ‘Zama’ has no history seen scientific claims – instead, I would like to immerse yourself in a world which is incalculable, with animals, plants, and us today, is incomprehensible-appearing women and men. A world that was already shaken before it was ever found and the remains, therefore, in a Delirium.”
The lions are ready…
Martel’s films are not for a selfish audience
You need to engage in the sensually atmospheric film worlds of Lucrecia Martel, patience for the long shots bring, for the wandering of the protagonists in space and time are mistaken. The Director demands little of the audience, the cascades in the super – hero-and Netflix-the age of quick cuts, frantic Dialogue and plenty of Action are used.
Lucrecia Martel has with all of this, nothing on the hat. She is an author, filmmaker of the purest water, told their personal stories in their own rhythm. You may be curious as to what movies Martel and her six fellow members of the Jury at the end of the festival, with the Silver and the Golden lion featuring.
76. Venice film festival will begin on October 28. August and ends on 7. September with the award ceremony. Lucrecia Martel last movie “Zama” is in the original version with German subtitles on DVD-supplier “Absolutely the media”.