To the next film festival in Locarno, the main character will be Douglas Sirk, revered by Rainer Fassbinder and Bernardo Bertolucci, melo master of the 50s and 60s, directed by Rock Hudson, Like leaves in the wind, Magnificent obsession, Mirror of life.films where love-tormented women meet, forbidden relationships and races, blind wives and ladies redeemed as nuns to avoid family life, men forced to hide their discomfort, muttered “homosexuality”, and yet without much success, because, early or later, in some frenetic movie metaphor, the truth seeps out, the neurotic world boils under the neat surface of the 1950s.
Festival director Giona Nazzaro did the right thing by approaching this precious retrospective with Vision Award winning Laurie Anderson, who, in her bottomless music, speaks of equal sorrow that comes from afar. In the elections of Locarno, there are many women’s views, without any intention of classifying, but this year the choice against wool, therefore ideal, is to award The Leopard of Honor Manor 2022 by Kelly Reichardtan independent filmmaker who is left out of the history books but worth discovering because she has given us little masterpieces since her debut with grass riverin ’94, and is able to take on the more masculine genre, the western, invert its tone in modernity, drawing inspiration from the paintings of the groundbreaking epic, and fly in and out of the frame with irony and sympathy, no matter what you tell about pioneer journey in Cutoff Mickwhether at the center of his recent comedy, Cowthere is just a cow transported to the Far West to produce the only milk in the whole territory for the governor’s pancakes, milked and stolen every night by two poor cowboys of rare cunning.
Reichardt’s art is (only apparent) sparse and refined, consisting of short gestures and movements, the daughter of an antagonistic culture, well told in his last film presented at Locarno75, Appearance, played by Michelle Williams, the “sister” of hippie art and philosophy (four films together), is the story of a sculptor who lives alone in an artist community. This is a thin film, like the preparatory drawings of a sculptor, sketches of women, dancers, sometimes too fragile, but capable of turning the world upside down with one whisper. Kelly Reichardt is a good find.
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Source: Elle