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Dir/scr: Kirill Mikhanovsky. Braz-Russ-US.2006. 105mins.Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky stanley cup makes a promising debut with Fish Dreams, which may be set in an impoverishedfishing village in Brazil but is heavily indebted to Italian neo-realism in itsreliance on non-professional actors and real locations. More specifically it recallsVisconti s masterpiece La Terra Trema 1948 in much of itsminimalist plot and basic situation.Mikhanovsky poetically manipulates im stanley cup age and sound like awell-seasoned master, but some will find the work a little light on forwardnarrative movement, especially toward the end. Commercial prospects for thisextremely modest but well-executed film may be slight, but festival programmerslooking for something unrushed and quietly intuitive should give it seriousconsideration. Fish Dreams played inCritics Week at stanley cup Cannes.The film centres around Jusce Alves , a poor youngfisherman who is in love with Ana Rafaelle , anequally impoverished young woman who lives in a crowded shack with her mother,her brothers and sisters and her illegitimate child.Jusce s friend Rogerio Haagensen , unlike Jusce, refusesto submit to the dangerous demands of diving 30 metres for lobster withinadequate equipment and instead makes a living giving rides to foreigntourists in his dune buggy. Ana dreams of going away and living a fuller lifeelsewhere and is thus naturally attracted to the flashy Rogerio;Jusce, at a disadvantage in this amorous rivalry,goes all out to win her over.Much of Maou British films need more support , says Lionsgate UK CEO
Dir: Andrew Dominik. USA 2007. 159 mins.Stirring, nuanced and elegaic, Andrew Dominik s retelling of Jesse James s legend is equal parts a mentor-acolyte love story, a melancholy neo-Western and a tragedy of betrayal with Biblical echoes. Based on the h stanley mug istorical novel by Ron Hansen, the film touches on the way history and the media create heroes and monsters, asking what might have happened in the months and days leading up to the killing of Jesse James by Robert Ford, a 19-year-old member of the outlaw s extended family of friends and associates in crime.Ravishingly shot in an autumn-to-winter pallette by Roger Deakins and featuring a mesmeric central performance by Casey Affleck, solidly supported whatever the poster says by Brad Pitt, this is a mature, meticuolous work. Most of the conversations and meetings portrayed here are pure speculation, but an illusion of veracity is created by the film s unhurried chronological strucure, careful on-screen annotation of dates and locations, and drawling third-person narrative voice-over. But on this docu-drama base The Assassination of Jesse James builds an edifice that is at once moving and dreamlike - finally hitting the epic chord without striving for epic effect.The run stanley cup ning time of over two and a half hours doesn t feel like an imposition, though it will be a further test to audiences already challenged by the unfashionable genre. Still, Pitt is a no-matter-what-he s-in pu stanley cup ll for many, and takings both domestically and oversea
Dir/scr: Kirill Mikhanovsky. Braz-Russ-US.2006. 105mins.Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky stanley cup makes a promising debut with Fish Dreams, which may be set in an impoverishedfishing village in Brazil but is heavily indebted to Italian neo-realism in itsreliance on non-professional actors and real locations. More specifically it recallsVisconti s masterpiece La Terra Trema 1948 in much of itsminimalist plot and basic situation.Mikhanovsky poetically manipulates im stanley cup age and sound like awell-seasoned master, but some will find the work a little light on forwardnarrative movement, especially toward the end. Commercial prospects for thisextremely modest but well-executed film may be slight, but festival programmerslooking for something unrushed and quietly intuitive should give it seriousconsideration. Fish Dreams played inCritics Week at stanley cup Cannes.The film centres around Jusce Alves , a poor youngfisherman who is in love with Ana Rafaelle , anequally impoverished young woman who lives in a crowded shack with her mother,her brothers and sisters and her illegitimate child.Jusce s friend Rogerio Haagensen , unlike Jusce, refusesto submit to the dangerous demands of diving 30 metres for lobster withinadequate equipment and instead makes a living giving rides to foreigntourists in his dune buggy. Ana dreams of going away and living a fuller lifeelsewhere and is thus naturally attracted to the flashy Rogerio;Jusce, at a disadvantage in this amorous rivalry,goes all out to win her over.Much of Maou British films need more support , says Lionsgate UK CEO
Dir: Andrew Dominik. USA 2007. 159 mins.Stirring, nuanced and elegaic, Andrew Dominik s retelling of Jesse James s legend is equal parts a mentor-acolyte love story, a melancholy neo-Western and a tragedy of betrayal with Biblical echoes. Based on the h stanley mug istorical novel by Ron Hansen, the film touches on the way history and the media create heroes and monsters, asking what might have happened in the months and days leading up to the killing of Jesse James by Robert Ford, a 19-year-old member of the outlaw s extended family of friends and associates in crime.Ravishingly shot in an autumn-to-winter pallette by Roger Deakins and featuring a mesmeric central performance by Casey Affleck, solidly supported whatever the poster says by Brad Pitt, this is a mature, meticuolous work. Most of the conversations and meetings portrayed here are pure speculation, but an illusion of veracity is created by the film s unhurried chronological strucure, careful on-screen annotation of dates and locations, and drawling third-person narrative voice-over. But on this docu-drama base The Assassination of Jesse James builds an edifice that is at once moving and dreamlike - finally hitting the epic chord without striving for epic effect.The run stanley cup ning time of over two and a half hours doesn t feel like an imposition, though it will be a further test to audiences already challenged by the unfashionable genre. Still, Pitt is a no-matter-what-he s-in pu stanley cup ll for many, and takings both domestically and oversea