Families in stress test.

Well, it embarked. But otherwise is not yet much to be felt at the festival in Cannes. In the films, however, a crisis is quite beautiful: New Works by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold show families in a state of emergency.

 

It would be so beautiful The young Americans Bennie Tetrocino (Alden Ehrenreich) travels to Buenos Aires to meet his long lost brother again. Finally, after a long search, he found it and is first of its kind Argentine wife Miranda (Maribel Verdú) in an apartment of the writer verkrachten added. However, Angelo's brother (Vincent Gallo), who in his new identity called Tetro, met him with open indignation and not enthusiastic that just healed the wounds of his old life to start again.

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Scene from "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold: Good old English-style social drama

And yet one thinks involuntarily to only ahnenden vanities in extensive creative Coppola clan, when the father of the two brothers, a world-renowned conductor, in a flashback to aspiring authors Angelo says: "There is only room for a genius in this family ". As do all the longings, fractures and misunderstandings on the family relationship strain, if gigantic egos collide.

A propos Ego: Coppola himself, in Cannes 30 years ago with "Apocalypse Now" won the Palme d'Or and since the big family is one of the festival, was a little offended when you "Tetro" in the competition wanted to show out of competition. So he initially threatened to order his film not on the Croisette to show. That alone caused plenty of discontent in Festival-chief Thierry Fremaux - then even more foamed than Coppola, "Tetro" parallel to the film series "Quinzaine de Réalisateurs" was adopted on Thursday with the prestigious factory opened.

Has changed the whole Tweaking worth? Board game-like, some ludicrous to driftend linked Coppola in "Tetro" great tragedy with Greek tragedy - and waits at the end with a film that has both form and aesthetic surprise. Since forgives you between then and now that story and forwards like a few twists, the arg predictable.

Is the predictable - in this case unsatisfactory - end in the new film of the New Zealand director Jane Campion in 1993 with "The Piano" won the Palme d'Or. Their historical drama "Bright Star" tells the story of the nearly three-year affair between the English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the young seamstress Fanny Brawn (Abbie Cornish), and Keats' death at the age of 25 years died from tuberculosis.

Now, a film about the great, tragic love of the greatest poet of the English literature course, even something Schwelgendes have. Think man. Campion, however, also wrote the Drehuch, tells her in the early 19th Century playing history not just as a gradually emerging, and then flare up violently

Love Story, but as always, sets much value on nuances and social observations.

Transcending power of poetry

Because ultimately the tragedy of unfulfilled love between Keats and Fanny lies in the conventions of the Victorian period, allowing the indigent poet prohibit Fannie hands to stop, so the two times their affair can meet only in secret.

Slowly and concentrated Campion describes the transformation of Fannie patents on the self-conscious fashion designer, whose creations like a colorful bird of paradise among the acts covered in tones of the dresses held other women in the rural vicinity of London. When she Keats to a society to know, like they did not the poet, and too little productive, and to suspect faulenzerisch it appears the writing industry. As Keats says to her that he hoped an even better poet to be, she replied saucy: Hope is all well and good, but often do not lead to results.

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It is the irony in this austere and beautiful colors, faded pictures telling story that Fannie at the end when they return to the seriously ill from the Keats Sommerfrische in Italy waits on nothing more than just the hope is back. They - and the transcending power of poetry - ultimately overcomes everything, says Campion film, social constraints, such as family conflicts. How comforting and how sad at the same time.

Whether the Fraternization hoping to late Bennie in "Tetro" or on the redemption of their great love waiting Fannie in "Bright Star", it is the unfulfilled desires and longings, the film festival this initial shape. In Lou Yes gay drama "Spring Fever" seekers even exceed the sexual taboos in order to bring human warmth. And the priestly vampire in Park Chan-wook hilarious horror parody "Bakjwi" ( "Thirst"), also in competition to see, is lonely, because he is the only blood-sucker is, but has qualms about his lover also to make undead. When he finally does it, controls the crude but imaginative story of "Oldboy" director on a long ill-fated end.

Indelicate British Slang

And that is also familiar with the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, which three years ago in Cannes with her debut "Red Road" for attention and now with "Fish Tank" in the competitive returns. In a dreary suburb somewhere in Essex plays her story of 15-year-old Mia (phantastisch: amateur actress Katie Jarvis), which desperately tries to desert from their homes with small, annoying sister and single mother to escape.

From family cohesion can no longer be a question. Even with the rare niceties are fiercest in the indelicate vulgar British slang pariert. Only when her mother a new friend home brings, it seems to give hope: Connor (Michael Fassbender) takes care of almost lovingly about the two daughters Mia and advises on its still awkward hip-hop dance attempts to professionalize.

Prompt the minors with the handsome guy sex on the sofa and stretches so that not only their own mom still youthful-looking friend, but triggers a chain of events that - according to good old English-style social drama - everything is coming down the creek. One British critic wrote about "Fish Tank": "You know that the Cannes Festival has begun, if the first person to a living room carpet urinates.

That was meant as praise, and r

so he really has, because the festival films are just the fact that the camera is not escapist illusions, but on the harsh reality set. The incidentally held on Friday also at the sun Croisette collection: It was raining the morning genaus so pathetic and permanently as in a beautifully hopeless Film Festival.