Editorials
Daney today
The film critic Serge Daney (1944 - 1992) regarded film as a support to feed and consolidate a thought, with a great deal of poetic license and philosophical and psychoanalytical offshoots. To condense the existence of a cinematographical work into a minimalist concept of “liked it or didn’t like it” would seem to be blasphemy in light of the treatises that Daney reserved for the films of his life.
The films of our lives may be here. This is the motto we repeat every year in our radio ads. It’s in the plural, since nobody can live on just one emotion. And it is precisely this plurality that we seek each year, with the movies of the Mostra. The profusion of titles and filmmaking that we choose must complete this important mission of molding us and bringing us ideas and concepts that will superimpose themselves on everything we know. Movies that we’ve seen are like the pieces in the tetrix games that will fall into place in our minds, forming our values.
Trying to imagine how Daney’s mission to form opinions about movies would reach the present, we invited film critic Jean-Michel Frodon, editor of the French magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma”, to do this transposition work. Frodon quickly accepted the mission to imagine what DANEY’S thought would be TODAY. Based on the list of movies chosen for the 31st Mostra, Jean-Michel Frodon pointed to the following titles that Serge Daney would certainly have enjoyed seeing, defending and promoting:
4 MESES, 3 SEMANAS E 2 DIAS (4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMANI SI 2 ZILE / 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS), de Cristian Mungiu / FRANÇA, ROMÊNIA
A FRANÇA (LA FRANCE / FRANCE), de Serge Bozon / FRANÇA
À PROVA DE MORTE (GRINDHOUSE: DEATH PROOF), de Quentin Tarantino / EUA
A QUESTÃO HUMANA (LA QUESTION HUMAINE / HEARTBEAT DETECTOR), de Nicolas Klotz / FRANÇA
A RETIRADA (DISENGAGEMENT), de Amos Gitaï / ISRAEL, FRANÇA, ALEMANHA, ITÁLIA
ANGEL (ANGEL), de François Ozon / INGLATERRA, BÉLGICA, FRANÇA
ANTES QUE EU ESQUEÇA (AVANT QUE J’OUBLIE / BEFORE I FORGET), de Jacques Nolot / FRANÇA
AS TESTEMUNHAS (LES TÉMOINS / THE WITNESSES), de André Téchiné / FRANÇA
BAMAKO (BAMAKO), de Abderrahmane Sissako / REPÚBLICA DE MALI, FRANÇA
CANÇÕES DE AMOR (LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR / LOVE SONGS), de Christophe Honoré / FRANÇA
CONGORAMA (CONGORAMA), de Philippe Falardeau / CANADÁ, BÉLGICA, FRANÇA
DE VOLTA À NORMANDIA (RETOUR EN NORMANDIE / BACK TO NORMANDY), de Nicolas Philibert / FRANÇA
EM PARIS (DANS PARIS / INSIDE PARIS), de Christophe Honoré / FRANÇA, PORTUGAL
ESTAÇÃO SECA (DARATT / DRY SEASON), de Mahamat-Saleh Haroun / FRANÇA, BÉLGICA
FAY GRIM (FAY GRIM), de Hal Hartley / EUA, ALEMANHA, FRANÇA
GLÓRIA AO CINEASTA! (KANTOKU · BANZAI! / GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER!), de Takeshi Kitano / JAPÃO
HELP ME EROS (BANG BANG WO AI SHEN / HELP ME EROS), de Lee Kang-Sheng / TAIWAN
INÚTIL (WU YONG / USELESS), de Jia Zhang-ke / HONG-KONG, CHINA
JOVEM YAKUZA (YOUNG YAKUZA), de Jean-Pierre Limosin / FRANÇA
LADY CHATTERLEY (LADY CHATTERLEY), de Pascale Ferran / BÉLGICA, FRANÇA, INGLATERRA
LATIDOS DA TARDE (XIA WU GOU JIAO / MID-AFTERNOON BARKS), de Zhang Yuedong / CHINA
LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE (LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE / FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON), de Hou Hsiao-Hsien / FRANÇA
LUST, CAUTION (SE, JIEN / LUST, CAUTION ), de Ang Lee / EUA, CHINA
LUXURY CAR (JIANG CHENG XIA RI / LUXURY CAR), de Chao Wang / FRANÇA
MILAGRE DE MEDÉIA (MÉDÉE MIRACLE / MEDEA MIRACLE), de Tonino De Bernardi / FRANÇA
MUTUM (MUTUM), de Sandra Kogut / BRASIL
NÃO TOQUE NO MACHADO (NE TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE / DON’T TOUCH THE AXE), de Jacques Rivette / FRANÇA, ITÁLIA
O ESTADO DO MUNDO (O ESTADO DO MUNDO / THE STATE OF THE WORLD), de Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Vicente Ferraz, Ayisha Abraham, Wang Bing, Pedro Costa e Chantal Akerman / PORTUGAL
O HOMEM DE LONDRES (A LONDONI FÉRFI / THE MAN FROM LONDON), de Béla Tarr / HUNGRIA, FRANÇA, ALEMANHA
PERDIDO EM PEQUIM (PING GUO / LOST IN BEIJING), de Li Yu / CHINA
POTOSI, A JORNADA (POTOSI, LE TEMPS DU VOYAGE / POTOSI, THE JOURNEY), de Ron Havilio / FRANÇA, ISRAELSENHORES DO CRIME (EASTERN PROMISES), de David Cronenberg / INGLATERRA, CANADÁ
SERKO (SERKO), de Joël Farges / FRANÇA
SMILEY FACE (SMILEY FACE), de Gregg Araki / EUA