Kornel Mundruczo’s Delta.Mundruczo started as a kind of protégé of Bela Tarr and this is his first film in the Cannes competition – a tragic, brother-and-sister love story, beautifully and poetically shot in the Danube Delta. A very troubled production, the lead actor died when the shooting was almost finished, and since he was in every scene, the film had to be shot again from scratch. A classic structure, lots of the Hungarian peasant faces we know from Bela Tarr’s films, a lyrical touch.
Also, much awaited, the new film by Lucretia Martel (The Holy Girl), The Headless Woman.No one does what Martel does so well – a kind of oblique narrative, with lots of characters coming in and out, bits and pieces of dialogue, the stuff of everyday life – picking up pots, children, lovers, husbands, and in the middle of it the main protagonist who is convinced she hit something (a dog, someone?) while driving.
The Clint Eastwood film, first called The Changeling, now The Exchange – a period drama set in 1920s Los Angeles, based on the kidnapping of a 9-year old boy from a single mother (Angelina Jolie) and her struggle to get the corrupt LAPD to investigate. A melodramatic script with Angelina Jolie pouting her lips at every opportunity – the narrative careens all over the place, and if nothing else, the film reveals the limitations of Jolie’s acting range.- Facets Multi-Media Executive Director Milos Stehlik, reporting from the 2008 Festival de Cannes.
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