Small arrangements with the dead ( Petits Arrangements avec les morts), Pascale Ferran France, 1994 was screened at the Cinematheque on Oct. 25, 1997 within the series "Panorama of the new French film"
A beach in summer. A man builds a sand castle and is watched by three people: his brother, sister and a child. All were marked by the death of someone close. Award winner for Best Debut Film at Cannes 1994. Notable
first feature film of director Pascale Ferran, these "little arrangements with the dead" with emotion and humor describe the different ways of being traversed by the grief of a loved one in an intelligent story that evokes childhood as a metaphor film and that, despite the grief suffered, is a celebration of life.
"Plane after plane, Pascale Ferran has been able to observe a crescendo at sunset that gradually darkens the film " Didier Peron
Con motivo de cumplirse hoy 24 de junio del 2010, 75 aniversario de la desaparicion fisica del cantante CARLOS GARDEL,ponemos una carta que ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, he wrote in 1978. Buenos Aires, 1978,
Dear Charlie: Charlie calling Perhaps you remember the kid 13 years living in New York, was Argentina and played the accordion. Canillita also worked with you in The day I want. I put Charlie when you asked me at home how Carlitos said in English, Do you remember when you took a wooden doll that my dad had carved ? This morning I have devoted two photos, one for Vicente Piazzolla and one for "the cute kid and great bandoneon player future." From 1934 to today, 1978, spent 44 years and not really missed.
Remember when I wore your films at Paramount Studios in Long Island? February 1934, the worst snowstorm of the year, two meters high and 10 below zero, I'm your translator pibas compliments to you wanted to know. never forget the two bikes that grabbed Tito Lusiardo and broke trying to keep warm. afternoons I used to walk you buy clothes at department stores New York. traveled Sacks, Macys, and finally bought Florsheini your blissful shirts with vertical stripes and horizontal. Dozens of them patent leather shoes, borsalinos, etc., as if you twine left over. I showed my city ( was proud to know both, well ... eleven years that I lived there), especially my neighborhood, Greenwich Village, where you had to know the best Italian cantinas, and you, buzzard with problems you care; excluding the times you came home to sample the ravioli of the Nonin Asunta and a final quince fritters. do you like to eat well!
never forget the night you offered a roast shooting ended of the day I want. was an honor of Argentines and Uruguayans who lived in New York . Alberto remember Castilian should I play the piano and bandoneon, course to accompany to you singing. I was crazy lucky that the piano was so bad I had to play myself and you sang themes of the film. What a night, Charlie! There was my baptism with the tango.
First tango in my life and accompanying Gardel! I'll never forget. Shortly after you left with Lepera and your guitar to Hollywood. Do you remember you told me two telegrams for me to join you with my bandoneon? It was the spring of 35 and I met 14 years. The old I gave permission and the union either. Charlie, I was saved! Instead of playing the bandoneon would be playing the harp.
begins a new era in my life. Back in Mar del Plata on 36. I grab the crush of music and study madly bellows. My bandoneon and I are going to Buenos Aires and debut with Aníbal Troilo. Do you know who was Troilus? He was you playing the bandoneon. It's like saying your successor.
We were in 1939 and for 4 years you were God. Your films and records rose desperately. Giles now discover that you sang well. you remember that moment when preferred to listen to other singers. Your theater was empty. Your trip to Europe was prescient and your presentations are increasingly important. After the United States, your films, Hollywood, Central and Medellin, the end of the route. You know one thing ... to I do not like the airplane, except that it took you catramina. But ... after your absence start new characters appear in Buenos Aires. Charlie ... he ruined the lives of singers, those who used to say: Thank goodness, it Gardel was laburo and more for us and another answered: Guarda, boys who are the discs. Building now appears a new social class: the widows of Gardel, characters who bought or had your records. Automatically
became radio announcers and "critical", plus all said they were friends of yours and never had ever seen. These people have formed their clan throughout Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela and many countries, almost 45 years living thanks to you. But there ends the matter. After 1936 are born Gardelian Gardelion, Gardelitos or Gardeluchos. They are oddballs using your smile, your very pilchas , your own way of walking and talking , but they can not do is sing like you . Charlie, I know you'll dying of laughter, no wonder. I can tell you most wanted to be singers Gardel, Gardel was all. Here we have run the ball your discs tested at night, so sings better every day. Story
a nice, Charlie. Some teachers edge of the Teatro Colón do listen to your albums song model, and I am sure that you will always be watching up from there and think that I would have liked to sing the great tangos of 40: also I had written for you and you have made arrangements and would play the accordion. Killing , Charlie. The only thing that I would not used in the orchestra is the harp. There will a collection of all colors You who know the angels, why do not you ask them to change the system and mess a bandoneon in the orchestra? Look
which are the fat Pichuco, Maffia, Laurenz . I'm excited too and I prefer to wait to be me who organize that orchestra. I will work, or as we say today, "I have a recital." I will think about the kid Piazzolla when you told him: "now brings the music and give Arrabal amargo everything." It was the spring of 35 and was born duet Gardel-Piazzolla. am a lucky guy. Someday we'll meet in the top floor. Waiting, but ... do not die ever. ASTOR PIAZZOLLA .
Like Gemini where, with an elegant technique in this brutal Rabies, spoke of incest, now provides another extreme proposal , visceral, shown without any qualms, as the sequence of pork, such as naturalization of violence that is breathed from the cradle in the field, something that can not run away, which grows , and that is shown in all its truth, away from the idealization of rural and those who dwell in it, which usually appear as characters always noble and committed. Survivors, as named by John Berger, underclass in any political system. Albertina Carri
gives us moments of fascination and repulsion other, forming a well-oiled as sharp as a mixture in which shows both the beauty of the countryside, the ugliness of the human soul and the innocence of children (the latter shown with the support of a very successful animated creepy.)
Because rabies infected dogs, violence also spread, we all are having on others, on the most vulnerable. About animal sex, pictures of girls (Almost abstract and do not interrupt the rhythm of the film), the relationship with animals, all is violent and crude.
could spend the entire filmography of Albertina Carri, made only three films in the upcoming exhibition "Women and Cinema" to verify that it is all done without compromise, is bold, provocative discussions source , somewhat pretentious and futile. Perhaps too interested in frightening the bourgeoisie and being uncomfortable at any price.
Profile José Val del Omar (Granada, 1904 - Madrid, 1982) can not be assigned to a particular item of business too, but had its greatest prop in the film. Belonged to a generation that believed in it as an art in its own right rather than a new opium for the masses. But if it is linked to the film medium as a creator of Doom, meager force, at least, as the footage is preserved today. An eccentric within English cinema, Val del Omar spent much of his time exploring technological issues concerning both the movies and the challenges in his time (the talkies, in relief, color, widescreen ...), as in other fields including electroacoustic radio, television and educational applications of the media. Some of his inventions sought practical solutions, while others penetrated into the notion of total show with a visionary flair unusual, even more if one considers that many of the ideas in this area and made public between 1928 and 1944.
addition, Val del Omar always kept abreast of the latest media technologies and came to glimpse the possibilities that opened with cybernetics, laser, digital video and the concept of mixed media. This exhibition, the most comprehensive to date dedicated to the artist, offers an exploration of his poetics through the various languages \u200b\u200bof those who served, from photography, film, collages and sound recordings to the design and implementation of devices and optical devices, recording and projection. This was divided into a course that plays to his life through the following chapters: the period of the Educational Mission, the laboratory PLAT (Picto stands for Audio Light Touch, a concept designating the practice to which he aspired), poetry art and Elemental Triptych of Spain (the trilogy in which he collected his films paradigmatic). The exhibition is completed with "The crypt lit" (Palacio de Carlos V) monograph which gathers the images that inspired Granada and the Alhambra.
May 13, 2010 / July 4, 2010 Centro José Guerrero C / Trades 8. Crypt Granada Palacio de Carlos V Monumental Complex of the Alhambra and the Generalife C / Real de la Alhambra s / n. Granada
September 14, 2010 / 28 February 2011. National Museum de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid