72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Nagisa Ôshima
Japan - France 
119 min.
A visitor to a geisha house meets one of them who arouses a strong love passion in him. They will exhaustively live the love game with such an intensity that it will lead the protagonists to a ceremony of search for the other in its entirety, until almost total elimination. Of passion and death. Eros towards Thanatos, from the search for sex, until totally losing personal identity.
Jacques Bral
France 
110 min.
Having broken with his past, Leo, a jazz musician, goes to live with an old writer friend, Bony. The two meet a lonely and marginal young woman named Cora, who struggles in a closed and violent universe. They are immediately attracted to her. Between Cora and Leo, intense love relationships are going to be established, at the same time tender and violent. This film presents, in the manner of the chronicles, a description of this "mad love" and composes the portraits of these three characters.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba 
68 min.
A writer is commissioned to write a script about sexism. The director tells Oscar that the film should serve to make those who see it aware of his sexism. Oscar goes to the port of Havana to elaborate among the workers the basis of the argument. Lina is a surprisingly empowered and politically sensitive worker. The writer, who is married, falls in love with her, creating a strong personal conflict for her. While the work is being developed, Oscar discovers some realities that are interesting to him and wants to include them in the script. However, the director disagrees. He starts from a preconceived scheme and wants cinema to get closer to reality. He will not carry out his project. And it will be seen that Oscar, despite the fact that he is aware of what sexismis, will be "up to a certain point." The theme of the film is therefore a conglomerate of the different points of view between men and women, intellectuals and workers, bureaucrats and trade unionists.
Jean-Luc Godard
France 
11 min. Short film
Jean-Luc Godard receives a commission to shoot a short film about the Swiss city, and he treats the work with artistic rigor on the imagination, doing what could become a mere documentary, be it an X-ray of the city. Color planes, greys, blues, gray inhabitants, abstractions of water and sky planes. And all this is dedicated with the emotion of a filmmaker to a great film buff: Freddy Buache.
Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Spain 
93 min.
Their Golden Years paints a picture, half mosaic and half x-ray, simply bleak. Without giving in to melodrama, without lamenting, avoiding the pamphlet. Emilio Martínez Lázaro keeps track of the discouragement of many young people who have to grow old in a reality and a country that they don't like, but which is their thing. They are people who never do what they want, but do things to pass the time. Others are passive and sit and wait without much conviction. They are intelligible and explainable characters from their behavior. Nothing seems to really excite them, and when they run - and they rarely do - they are either late or useless.
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