Festival director Thierry Fremaux arrived at Buñuel’s small room and greeted the rare presence of the Portuguese in the official selection in a very good mood. team Fragments of wind, written by Thiago Guedes, was all dressed up except for one of the Thiagos, screenwriter Thiago Rodriguez, future director of the Avignon Festival, who came to tennis and was soon kicked off the red carpet. Fremo joked about the incident and apologized, but also made an almost full house laugh when he said that Portuguese producer Paulo Branco always had something to say. Informal mood as opposed to the dryness of the film.
And finally, sincere applause for another Portuguese film, which confirms a new golden moment in the internationalization of our cinema. Fragments of wind it is a Portuguese crime shrouded in mystery, “slow thrillerable to whisper with the wind. In a small village in the interior of Portugal, a teenager is killed, a tragedy that may resonate with the past when, according to tradition, a group of masked boys “attacked” the girls of the city. The tradition does not continue, but on this day of the festival, young a man is killed, presumably by dogs, later revealed to have been stabbed after all, Suspicion falls on Laureano (Albano Jeronimo), the “little fool” of the earth, someone who will be injured at one of these parties of toxic masculinity.
One of the many little marvels of Gedes’ work is that it can be both an actor’s film and a chamber concert, mainly because it is in the group work of the actors that the most intense takes place, but also because each frame contains pleasure and aspiration. to pure cinema, perhaps even more thoughtful than in manor (And these are very different films, it should be noted). From this group of actors, it is a must to go to heaven with the dramatic posture of Nuno López and with the challenge won by Albano Jeronimo in transforming a character with an intellectual disability. It doesn’t matter how much Fragments of wind whether it be the person who directed the Gloria series, there is no doubt: we live in a country and in the time of cinema. It tastes fantastic.
In the Cannes Classics section, the Portuguese brand’s documentary was another triumph courtesy of Fado Filmes Gonzalo and Luis Galvão Teles. silence Goya – according to Jean-Claude-Carrière, a trip to Spain with the late screenwriter to lecture on the master of painting. José Luis López-Linares directs this touching film, full of boring talking heads but always punctuated by a camera that creatively conveys the scale of Goya’s painting and his Spain. A trip that includes cinematic moments that tried to give the artist a cinematic dimension, as well as painting academics and some artists (like Julian Schnabel). Interesting or not, this is also a film about a Career that died in post-production. And, as a cicerone, he is the one who represents the universe of his friend Buñuel and, intelligently, avoids expiration. goya ghosts, he wrote the work for another friend, Milos Forman. ombre Goya, The original title of this co-production of Portugal, Spain and France is proof that Goya could see in the human condition, that is, everything that we mere mortals cannot…
