With "A Farewell", he won the Berlin Golden Bear and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Awards, and the Iranian director Asha Fahati, who was nominated for the Palme d'Or twice, brought his new film "Everybody Knows" to reveal Opened the curtain of the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
The story takes place in the suburbs of Madrid. Laura (played by Penelope Cruz), who is married to Argentina, returns to her hometown to attend her sister's wedding. The whole family got together at the wedding, but Laura's eldest daughter was kidnapped that night. It is a near-closed crime. The suspicion can only be between blood-connected relatives. A race between suspicion and truth is staged here.
Following the last autobiographical film of the Colombian drug lord "Beloved Drug Lord", this film was staged again by the husband and wife of Penelope Cruz and Javier Baden at the same time. Good actors must also be used by directors. Penelope Cruz is often very ostentatious when he plays some comedy roles. It turns out that with Fahadi's solid director skills, both husband and wife perform well. Although the Spanish movie world is relatively unfamiliar to the Chinese people, it occupies an important position in the world movie. Penelope Cruz and Javier Baden are not only Spanish national treasure actors, but also the Spanish world. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
The most difficult part of "Everybody Knows" is asking an Iranian director to shoot in a foreign land in a language that he doesn't understand at all. It is reported that Fahati not only kept the Persian script in mind at the time of filming, but also carried two translators every day. The film was shot for three months. Fahati confessed that he enjoyed the unfamiliar language. Exotic. Not long ago, Wes Anderson's "Island of Dogs" really made the audience experience an uncommunicable sense of alien isolation, while Fahati moved an Iranian family story to Spain.
One of the questions that I have been thinking about during the movie watching is, why is this movie filmed in Spain? In the previous interview, Fahati explained to reporters that he has always been passionate about Spain. On the one hand, it may be because Spain and Iran have a lot of similarities, and both sides promote family values. On the other hand, it is the performance of Penelope Cruz. Fahati attracted. This kind of reason is somewhat paradoxical. Instead of saying what must be shot in Spain, it is better to say what cannot be shot in Iran. Using the changed time and space to discuss some taboo topics, Fahati is not the first person, and it is by no means the last. one person.
Fahati prefers to bury a seed of suspicion among complex family members and take root at critical moments; Fahati’s evaluation of religion is negative. The church is a profitable institution in the film and repeatedly emphasizes being blessed by God. His role is also weak and passive; Fahati once again emphasized time, which is the key to making grape juice into wine. The clock tower in the movie is the key space. The clock tower is the intersection of religion and time. The initial lettering of men and women who are passionate about love is vivid and reveals the title: "Everyone knows" the feelings of two people, and everyone knows the two people. The failure of the relationship, why does the relationship fail? What Fahati implied was the class gap between the two, and the tragedy of the story also originated from a failed marriage with class gaps. Fahati responded to his theme in this way.
Fahati’s control is understandable; the performance of celebrity couples is also remarkable, but the film is somewhat superficial, the theme is not clear enough, and the characters are too flat. "Everyone Knows" is still a film that is shrouded in the shadow of "A Farewell" In the work below, the transformation of time and space did not deepen the theme, and it may be because of mediocrity that "Everyone Knows" was used as the opening film. Fahati, who is always missing a Palme d'Or in his resume, is one step away from this dream.
Phoenix net score: 5.5
Foreign media comments:
This Oscar-favored director seems to be more and more like Woody Allen. Every movie takes a group of high-value actors to different countries in Europe, and it’s not painful or itchy for us to perform. The play.
—— Peter Debruge, Variety Show
In the past few years, Cannes's opening films were so mediocre that people can't remember, but this year, this "Everybody Knows" is completely different from the opening films of previous years.
—— Steve Pond, "Entertainment Weekly Broadcast"
Asha Fahati uses a gorgeous lens that is both calm and full of sharp edges to depict the deep pain of a Spanish family.
--Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Half of it is a thriller with too much mouth-breaking, and half is a family drama with too much splendor. Its narrative keeps jumping around, without forming a complete and rigorous whirlpool from beginning to end, allowing us to see the characters in the film. The situation is getting worse because of the occurrence of various events.
——Boyd Van Hoeij, "The Hollywood Reporter"
There is no trace of Iranian and Persian related in the whole film. The purely European film by Iranian director Asha Fahati not only ensures that the characters’ actions are fully motivated and emotionally entangled, but also makes you just right. It happened to be able to keep up with the development of the plot, but couldn't predict what would happen in the next scene.
—— Lisa Nesselson, "International Screen"
Text/Xiao Ming
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