Flagellation of lust.

Violence on the screen, sex-thoughts on the Croisette: The Cannes Film Festival began on a high level, but towards the end of the competition went to air. The films have been longer - but not better. For the prices there are a handful of favorites.

 

A container that summarizes several liters of water, no cups, but a bucket. A building which has several floors, is not a cottage but a house. If an image, which over two and a half hours on the screen moves, even a movie? Is it more than that? Or even less? This question could be this year towards the end of the festival stating that the works in competition has been getting longer.

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Quentin Tarantino took almost 160 minutes for "Inglourious Basterds", Xavier Giannoli 150 for "À l'origine" Michael Haneke 144 for "The white band, Gaspar Noé, finally defeated 165 for" Enter the Void ". François Truffaut once said, a director who entertain his audience, whether as a lover, which is more concerned about the pleasure of his partner than to take care of his own. In this sense, we, the audience loved the calm directors: Length does not count.

But the pressure to find a movie on this festival to present is so great that more and more directors, only to deliver work in progress. One can, of course, for a form of democratization hold. Finally, the Festivali as to test audience, which has influenced the final product. After the screening of "Inglourious Basterds" about outbid the critics with virtually cut proposals that have never tummelten so many self-cutter on the Croisette.

However, it is not the task of criticism, the work of artists to make. Anyone who visited a car exhibition, also expects there to drive models to get presents. When the engine of a car stutters, it would be very strange from the manufacturer, if the trade that would clamp, in the solution of the problem to help. No, we really expect in Cannes more than films that hardly come by the office, often do not get the curve and countless figures such as fuel consumption for their stories.

At the beginning of the festival, we wrote: "Never the directors moved their characters so close to the soul." At the end we must say: Completely true, but rarely before they penetrated deeper into the meat.
Since drilled Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars von Trier's horror film "Antichrist" of her husband Willem Dafoe embodied a hole in the leg, pushed Brad Pitt as one of Diane Krueger played Nazi diva in "Inglourious Basterds" exactly at the same point the finger pleasurably in a Wundkanal.

That the man of the people is meat grinder, showed the Philippine Brillante Mendoza, in technical circles of Phillies-shine, "referred to in his new book" Kinatay ". It killed a woman, to Peter Hacke processed and sold in kilograms. As blood is delicious, made the South Koreans Park Chan-wook in "Thirst" clear: Because sucking vampires in a comatose hospital patients over the needles lifeblood from the veins, as if they were soft drinks with straws nuckeln.

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While the desire to celebrate meat was the lust scourged as never before. For the smallest excitation suggests the vampire in "Thirst" on his penis, out fear, the control over itself to lose. In "Antichrist" haut Gainsbourg as an extra edge and the band turned her husband's wife with a piece of wood so hard to erect the sex part, that it ejakuliert blood. Outside of competition, like in the movie market, there was suffering all sorts of brush to see: In the Australian film "The Horseman" A man tries to enlighten his daughter's death by their tormentors with an air pump and hook it to Gemächt.

So what can be seen makes no joy, certainly not in the sexualized atmosphere of Cannes. Because the density of beautiful women who like to show what they have, during the festival anywhere in the world, bigger than here, it seems that the Croisette in the male perception soon only of secondary sexual characteristics to exist. In other words: You think the whole day to sex. Because women also think about other things and there are some annoying constraints (film screenings, press conferences, etc.) that prevails in the ever-crowded Croisette soon driving a huge traffic jam.

The shoot will take place in the dissipation cinema: the hero must do what is denied us, that is pure erotic escapism. In the films, which run in Cannes, there are so many sex scenes than to make it here on the streets will not be rioting. And now this: genital attacks everywhere you looked. When Lars von Trier cuts even the heroine - the original, with a pair of scissors, in close-up! In the cinema hall was a dangerously charged atmosphere unausgelebter desires, but there were just in the directors Marco Bellochio (with "Vincere") and Gaspar Noé and saved the festival with numerous, extensive Rammelstein scenes.

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2009 was a mediocre vintage Cannes, which began strongly, but towards the end severely receded. One of the best films, also known as the favorites for the Palme d'Or shall include Jane Campion love drama "Bright Star" and Jacques Audiard prison film "Un prophets." Even Michael Haneke Portrait of a repressive German town before the First World War is highly traded. Katie Jarvis, the road away from the main actress undertook the Teeangerdramas "Fish Tank", could be awarded as an actress. Maybe Christoph Waltz in the role of a Nazi Offziers in "Inglourious Basterds" as best male lead actor opportunities. A special prize should in any case to go Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Order of the Wounded sacrificially representation in the services of a depressive author filmmaker.