2024-08-31 06:40:31
When Luis Ortega’s film “El Jockey” premiered in Venice, journalist Guy Lodge wrote in Variety magazine: “It’s fresh, lively, and entertaining enough to attract independent films from around the world. Buyers beware, whether or not it wins the Jury Award.
“‘El Jockey’ succeeds in sparking laughter and entertainment with its surreal setting and quirky protagonist, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart,” the Variety reporter continued. The Argentinian actor, who is based in France and has experience in film festivals and awards shows, puts himself in the role of a jockey, immersing himself in an odyssey told in a dreamlike tone, from which he escapes after an accident The mafia that controls the horses. During this escape, the characters undergo many transformations. “This is a film filled with many questions. When you are young, you think at some point you will understand something about life; in the end he comes to the conclusion that he understands nothing, but he remains calm ,” Ortega told a news conference in Venice.
“Luis (Ortega) is very playful. It’s there, weaving, and without you realizing it, magical things happen. He’s also a witch, a wizard, etc. Pérez Biscayate He told AFP: “He is the only one who has worked with me more than once. “This film was new to me,” explains Úrsula Croberó, Biscayart’s novelist partner. “I learned to lose control (…) Many times I fell in love with the character, but didn’t like the project. This time I learned that, in fact, what is supposed to happen happens. The two actors, as well as the Chilean actress Mariana Mariana Di Girolamo walked the Venice red carpet together for the world premiere.
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challenge. Ortega premiered his film on the same day that Pablo Larrain also premiered his film, starring once again Hollywood star Angelina Jolie . In “Maria,” she played Maria Callas, a heroine on stage and in her private world who died at the age of 53. Larraín, who said “few movies have been made about opera stars,” focuses on the last week of the famous soprano’s life, when she hesitated to sing again, abused drugs and was tortured by her past and future emotional life.
“When you reach a certain level of despair, sadness and love, only certain types of sounds can capture those feelings,” Jolie said in Venice. “There are a lot of things I won’t say in this room that you probably already know (…) “First, I shared this vulnerability with Callas.
For the role, Jolie explained that she trained her vocal cords for seven months to do her best to pay homage to the Callas myth. Of course, Jolie didn’t use her voice to recreate the diva’s mythical arias, but Larraín’s skill lies in allowing the actress’s humble voice to appear in the film’s dramatic moments, and when it comes to recreating the singer’s legend ’s stage personality, that voice merges, the original reappears, and with it the myth of Callas reappears on the screen.
Four heroines. Two other Australian-born film stars, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, also came to Venice with two films. The latter is the protagonist of “Baby Girl,” in which she plays an executive married to theater director Antonio Banderas who hides deep sexual dissatisfaction beneath her successful exterior.
Cate Blanchett is the protagonist in the film “Disclaimer” directed by Alfonso Cuarón in Mexico. She plays a successful woman, a journalist, married to an executive who committed a crime in her youth that has become a problem now.
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore will attend the festival, led by “Jockey” producer Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish director who won the Golden Lion for “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” award. Both are the protagonists of “The Room Next Door,” Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film.
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