Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Good Things To Do For 10 Month Anniversary

"Anna Karenina" by Nekrosius

"If you want your girlfriend leave you, take her to see a show of Nekrosius. It lasts five hours," he says jokingly Mrs VR It 's true: five hours, but if they were six, and I'd been Cinzia probably be fascinated by visions of sitting in this Lithuanian director, born in 1952, which in recent years dominated the international theater scene with shows at a very high symbolic content, often taken from Russian literature. Very long, yes, but so intense, deep, soaked in a highly personal and artistic reworking of the literary text. Seeing Anna Karenina, I thought of all the times in which he says with a little 'too lightly that "certain nineteenth-century novels are immortal." I read it three times Anna Karenina, one of my favorite novels. Absolutely. So do my students. I admit, however, that here, size 2008, you can stay away from the world of the Russian nineteenth century painting by Tolstoy, conventions, roles, everyday life of people living their passions in a continuous need for domination of themselves in front of the public. Instead Eimuntas Nekrosius stages the neuroses that we might encounter in our lives, but not see the pages of Tolstoy: Hold even, the bland brother of Anna, looks like a mad puppet. The slow decline of Anna is marked by time clocks roll on stage, in the guise of trains, to symbolize the transitory nature of passion, the torment of loneliness, the falsity of the judgments of society, while playing with mirrors and frames take us among the group hell through which Anna sinks to the suicide (the brilliant performance of the train that invests). Among the cries of all those who encourage (including Karenin!), But can not understand it. Wonderful time of the two famous monologues of Anna, the actress Mascia Musy indulges in a "stream of consciousness" heartbreaking, soul of the protagonist leaves his body, you put in the hands of a strange character, a man down and bad (Fussli's nightmare? "the nedotykomka" of Sologub?) which represents the unconscious and that looks like a devil impregnable to play various roles on stage. This extraordinary show is a visionary journey through the shadows of classical heroine, but feel the echo of his pain until squares of the twenty-first century.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mustard Yellow Colour In Living Room

13:02:08: "Quiet Chaos"

Quiet Chaos is an oxymoron, an expression consisting of two opposing elements semantically. It refers to all those times when we do something, because on the inside, but then, out into the world where everything has to be "normal", we make another one: we would say yes we would happy but we say no to education and respect, we would like to make a wish that is there at hand, but sent him back because there is no time, we would like to express our affection, but we are in public or there is someone watching us. Or we would cry, because a person is dead, but desperation does not destroy our apparent equilibrium. There has never happened to be cold in the face of death, do not try to surprise and excitement around you all cry, and then hope to cry, to strive to do so? Nanni Moretti send your question in this scene from "Quiet Chaos" in which she cries, towards the end. In this beautiful film, in which it is evident that he not only has the lead role, but that sometimes he wandered behind the camera with Grimaldi, Moretti, aided by excellent actors like Silvio Orlando and Isabella Ferrari, leads us to the theme of mourning, however, already discussed in the "Room of the child." Here, however, the main character's wife dies, is left alone with his little daughter and a host of relatives, friends and colleagues, we realize, have major problems because of her boarded at a daily anxious and very far away now from the threshold in which, instead he falls. They want to talk with him, but not him. The suffering of the widow Moretti you are developing in a very special path, along which the space is the reason the island. He forgets the work, you place each morning in the park in front of the elementary school her daughter's appearance, however, developing an energy centripetal (Pareyson might say a "good intelligence") that attracts all the other characters towards her bench. While his story is splashed across newspapers all over are visiting this island-park cognate pregnant wrong men, workmates liars and unbalanced with wives, girlfriends, girls and women attracted to him in different ways, even the director ( Roman Polanski!) of a large company that is merging with his. Nobody seems to break the calm, the chaos that he is hardly in this apparent cold expression and balance may also be transmitted to the child. In this film there is much Moretti also in the scene who did a lot of sex talk, nice for realistic, true, and this perturbation.

Monday, February 4, 2008

What Can Disqualify You From The Navy

January 31, 2008: "The Lives of Others"

Initiatives dell'UDU (Union University of Bari), there is one, very welcome, to organize film festivals. In the last cycle of films have expected "The Lives of Others," which does not need to show and if you have one, you could use the words that his friend and colleague whispered to me FC eighty seconds after the start of the projection: "We see now that it is a beautiful film." € a head, the new Splendor is full, some guys are on the ground, I Cinzia, Lina, Francis I and II we start looking for a place, seems to be in the family: there is all the faculties. The pleasure of being at home and elsewhere to see the faces that you meet at work. "The Lives of Others" is a film about the "great benefactor", or big brother, now topical even in democracies that are emancipated for some years by socialism. In 1984, Honecker of East Germany, the state police's task is to "ensure the happiness of citizens, spiandoli shamelessly to isolate and punish those who are disobedient or smell of dissidence. Among these could be Dreymann Georg (code-named Lazlo), a playwright who, without conviction, it is aligned to the regime. The bride, beautiful, is the most quoted interpreter of his plays. A spy on the order of a poor minister who wants to fit Dreymann and take advantage of women, is the true protagonist of this story, an incorruptible cop, whose life seems to be no more than the work and service to his country. The squalor characterizes every aspect of her life as a performer: to convince the furniture hairpieces look of his house (you could see them the same in all countries of the former USSR), the white rice you eat for dinner, his dark vest, its cool looking, even the prostitute with whom he spent half an hour un'ingloriosa joy. But in this general squalor bursts suddenly a sense of justice, a thirst for freedom, the poetry of Brecht, and what was the prototype of evil becomes a heroic sacrifice. The actor who plays him unfortunately lost their lives last year, but the glory and the merit of this work have shown the film in a shower of awards, including Oscar. The fluidity of the script (not without its comic moments), the balance of narrative sequences, the skill of the actors, the faithful reconstruction of some typical environments of East Berlin (see the bar, cafeteria, apartments) that seems to lack the imagination, creativity, stimulation, this leads to an exciting result, choral and appealing. Stories over a beer at the Old South, we enjoyed the post-film. But then, once out, we could forego the cream donuts in Corso Benedetto Croce?