Reflecting on the TIFF awards...
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Federico: Cuarón's
Roma didn’t win a mention, despite hitting the high 90s on Tomatoes. Maybe too
stoic, not so heroic.
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Francois: Awards went to some films I did get to see, like the Danish film Before
the Frost. Seemed to recall Bergman.
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Federico: Hollywood knows how to tell a story, and make blockbusters.
European directors do art house cinema well.
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Francois: Margarethe von Trotta’s Bergman documentary on Bergman was good. Interviews
with people he worked with. His passion for always creating something new. Cooler
to his family. “Do you miss your children?” “No.” Gave up films for ten years,
then came out of retirement to do Saraband. Digital, not film. Aged 84. Never
too late to reawaken a reputation. That’s what staying alive is for.
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Federico: White Crow, the Ralph Fiennes biopic of Nureyev, deserved its
prize for artistic acting.
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| Ghost in the Camera: Searching for Ingmar Bergman |
Francois: But they missed my favorite. Non-fiction: Super talky. Great
phrases like “an infinite minority.” Then Director Olivier Assayas turns up in von
Trotta’s film saying he has a great debt to Bergman. We draw the full circle
but the line doesn’t quite join up. The difference between Bergman and Assayas:
Bergman’s characters talk little and leave long pauses; Assayas’s characters
talk a lot and hardly have time to breathe. Is that a cultural difference
between Sweden and France?
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Voice-over
Film festivals can be feasts. The films, finding the QR codes, the Q&As.
Fan of TIFF.
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