Posted on 09/03/2005 9:56:34 AM PDT by Rodney King
George Clooney, festival King
From Venice Wolfgang Hoebel reports
Of Italy newspapers make it like women from all world: It skies Hollywoods most beautiful actor on. The George Clooney rejoicing lets the fear of terrorist attacks on the Lido forget temporarily. Clooneys new film is by the way also rather good.
A little war game must be, there can for us the whole terror insanity remain nevertheless stolen! Highest uncertainty phase, one read, prevails this time with the film festivals at the Lido, because one had fear before the Islamic murderer luggage - after half six in the opening afternoon, when the visitor straight arrives, and cracks and smokes it hisses nevertheless briefly before the festival palace.
When Piraten cry kostuemierte young chaps into a microphone and fireworks rockets leave into the cloudless sky to rise - and exactly those few dozens of heavily armed policemen, who are to prevent terrorist raids on the film festivals, find the riot for beep. Grinsend watch the Carabinieri juvenil the zerlumpten Globalierungskritikern their demonstration. The protesting youth established on the Lido of Venice a Camp. It calls it "Pirateninsel".
Before the palace however is, when the rockets are fired, then nevertheless conclusion with the Piratenspuk. Because the safety fence from placing walls and metal detector air-locks stands here. The festival area is changed in this year in a away, over whose entrance gates one stuck golden lions: the world cinema in the state of siege?
Everything half so badly, one imagines in view of that hundreds of majority very young and by the majority Italian humans, who established themselves like always on the stages before the former Casino and in the Buden and cafes around the away to eat approximately and drink and celebrate. The music however is not half as loud untwisted as in earlier years, everywhere patroullieren university-formed, warships duempeln outside in the sea, allegedly also a few diver the small harbor basin before the hotel Excelsior carefully abgecheckt. All strive for Italian casualness - and the fear of terror, which has itself Italy with its participation in the Iraq war entering and ELT, is everywhere present on the Lido nevertheless.
A little war game must be - after this slogan has from the Asia cinema inspired, but rather taste-safe festival boss Marco Mueller limits the Hong Kong director Tsui rakes loaded with its new work "Seven Swords" for the Eroeffnungsgala of the festivals. Clearly the many abgesaebelten heads in the film caused partial indignation, to Tsui Harks of splendourful human being Schaschlick seem at present nevertheless somehow strangely. But which soll's: The opening film does not participate in the competition traditionally eh '.
Carabinieri with the festival: Highest uncertainty phase But George Clooneys is new film "Goodnight and Good Luck" in the fight for the golden lion at the start. It is its second work as a cinema director after "Confessions OF A Dangerous Mind" from the year 2002.
Clooney created it as the radiating King of these festivals to be celebrated already now. Not only, because it charmiert with its broad smile of everything in reason and soil, but also, because its film actually which makes: It is a moving, only by sections somewhat violently pathetische challenge against the rule of the stump-intimate and Bornierten - and against the enemies of the liberty of opinion in the USA.
Beau and ideology critic
"Goodnight and Good Luck" tells of the time of the Kommunistenhatz in the America of the fifties, of the so-called McCarthy era. David Strathairn plays the television journalist Edward Murrow, which moderates a weekly politics and show Business policy for the TV transmitter CBS. After some hesitating and many intimidation attempts he steps the man, who poisons the climate of the entire country, manful against: evenly McCarthy. The republican senator lets the half artistic and intellectual elite of the country pull before a senate committee and complains her because of unpatriotischer activities on.
"Goodnight and Good Luck" is the empty phrase, with which Murrow says good-bye after each of its transmissions of its listeners - and just as old-fashionably and gentlemanlike as this empty phrase is the whole film. In captivatingly illuminated, occasionally black-and-white pictures under-painted with leave jazz classical authors Clooney shows the hero courage of a small crowd of Unbeugsamen, its doubts and its Zaudern, their attack and their triumph.
Naturally this history film is not bare a history film, but also a lampoon: against George W. Bush, against the systematic brainwashing of today's US transmitters such as Fox, against the lyingness of the American media altogether (only in the preparatory phase of the Iraq war well-known-measured badly verlogene "New York Times" gets away good). Surprisingly however the commitment of the art does not stand to Clooneys film, in which the director is to be seen by the way also in a Nebenrolle, in the way and therefore after the easily chaotic conception in the large festival hall rightfully was cheered and celebrated.
One could complain of something gibt's however nearly always too laestern, in this case that perhaps nevertheless sometimes the film divides the fate of its creator: It looks simply too good.
Police work, no joke
Completely differently it behaves with the French film "Le Petit lieutenant" from Xavier Beauvais, which runs in Venice unfortunately only in the author film series: Here it concerns to varnish only nothing. Police work shows Beauvais glaringly naturalistisch, i.e.: While today be located in each fashionable television crime film untwisted forensic pathologist at the dissection table roots and merrily in human entrails, one sees - and above all: one hears - here, how graesslich the everyday life work of the Ermittler is. It is not fun to crack breastbone bones.
"Le Petit lieutenant" is a police film. Nathalie Baye plays clerk sarin, which lost her seven-year-old son by a malicious illness, drinking began and only laboriously from the alcoholism to the life returned. In the young police college graduate Antoine, which becomes their assistant, believes to recognize it their son. And because the boy, of the Jalil Lespert, is played a Draufgaengertyp already extensively angehimmelten in France, the thing goes badly inclined.
The straight mad at festivals is as in Venice that one kriegt to see here films, which possibly never find in the German cinema. There "Le Petit lieutenant" may be still so hinreissend, a DVD and (at best) a passabler transmission place on the German television will probably jump out. And how will it be issued the competition film "Brokeback Mountain" from Ang Lee? We do not talk long around: Ang Lee tells more long the history of two gays cowboys to than two hours - whether so a history is suited for the Popcornkino?
Schwulsein in Marlboro country
"Brokeback Mountain" actor Heath Ledger (M.):Get broken at the convention Großbildansicht "Brokeback Mountain" actor Heath Ledger (M.): Get broken at the convention No matter, also that here is to be cheered more largely, courageous throw: That from Taiwan coming, in the USA director Ang Lee celebrated for strips like "the ice storm" presents a film over the ugly intolerance of the US-American society. The girl swarm Jake Gyllenhaal and the looking also good Heath Ledger play two saddle-firm American landyoung, which is to ride 1964 in the mountains Wyomings a summer long on horses and guard sheep.
Both are muzzle-putridly, a little blocked and first times by not means together interested. When they alone with one another are then however in the Marlboro Country moderate landscape, float sie's rather casually in the tent with one another - and it belonged to the amusing and at the same time most agitating scenes of the film, as young on the next morning mutually insure themselves not to be strictly heterosexual completely certainly schwul and.
"Brokeback Mountain" describes the life of the two heroes during the next two decades. Both marry it, wars of children, close its compromise with the convention. And both get broken it thereby. They live in the middle in the American province - and break out nevertheless again and again, evenly into the wilderness: officially to fishing, in truth to birds. Which cannot good-go in the long term.
Ang Lee needs unfortunately very long, in order to make the despair of its heroes plausible. Friendly expressed: The director done without each direct accusation of the external world and describes only, like it the Protagonisten is issued - their clumsy embraces, its sudden force outbreaks, their failure in relation to the own family. Only at the end the film wins the passion, which it maintains before one and a half hours long. One can accuse the magnificent Landschaftkitsch and the tender Schwulenkitsch of this film to Lee, its message however is from beautiful universal validity: In a world, which is poisoned by the terror of the Moralapostel, humans cannot become lucky.
George Clooney? George Clooney? Oh yeah, wasn't he that guy on Facts of Life?
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