Can two brothers who have received the same education be so different? Louis is a good student who accesses Sorbonne. FUS is increasingly withdrawn and more violent. Little by little, he approaches extreme right groups without his father, an honest rail worker played by Vincent Lindon (winner of the Volpi Cup to the best actor at the Venice Festival), he can do anything to avoid it.
Thus starts The quiet son directed by the sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, who tonight won the best film at the BCN Film Fest. Based on the novel What’s lack of night by Laurent Petitmangin, The quiet son It is a disturbing tape that leaves the spectator without respite in its portrait of the contradictions that occur when the extreme right is infiltrated within the family and destroys it.
It is also one of the many good films that have been projected during the last ten days in this contest, which consolidates Barcelona as a large capital of cinema. Great stars like Richard Gere, producer of the documentary about the Dalai Lama Lama have passed through the BCN Film Fest Wisdom and happiness ; Barbie Ferreira, protagonist of the endearing A Like of Bob Trevino or the Great Ralph Fiennes, which took the honor prize and present his new work, The return.
Premiatory and quality cinema that the audience has managed to appreciate in a ninth edition of record. And it is that a total of 24,000 spectators went these days to Cinemas Verdi, where the contest is celebrated, compared to last 20,000 (and that despite the blackout on Monday).
The festival, led by Conxita Casanovas, which tries to combine cinema and literature coinciding with the celebration of Sant Jordi, said goodbye tonight with a gala in which the closing film was projected, The irresponsible a comedy by Laura Mañá. The director and her three protagonists, Laia Marull, àgata Roca and Betsy Túrnez participated in the event.
Alexandry Lamy and Grégory Gadebois win the interpretation awards for ‘The first school’
A very feminine record was also read. The German Alissa Jung won the award for the best direction for her prima opera Paternal leave a complex story of paternalophilial relationship starring Italian actor Luca Marinelli and debutant Juli recordenhenrich.
In her, Jung, who is also an actress, tells Leo’s story, a German quinceañera who has grown up without a father, and when he discovers his identity he does not think twice and travel to the north willing to ask him a lot of questions. Paolo (Marinelli), who has a little daughter and is in crisis with her current partner, will be exceeded by the arrival to her life of that teenager she abandoned when she was a baby because at 21 she was not prepared to play such demanding role.
Little by little, both will begin to recognize what they have in common to give a small but significant step towards acceptance. “I wanted to focus on the relationship between father and daughter because curiously it has not been made in so many films and I think it is a very important relationship in our life. There is often a lot of love, but it is also frequent that you are injured between them,” Jung told this newspaper.
Another debutant who went with a prize, this time to the best script, is the Norway Lilja Ingolfsdottir, than in Adorable It portrays the difficulty of being a mother and having a working life at the same time. A story that arose from a personal experience.
Alexandry Lamy and Grégory Gadebois took recognition as best actress and actor, respectively, for their work in The first school by Eric Besnard, who addresses the difficulties of a teacher who tries to teach children in the French countryside at the end of the 19th century. Lamy embodies Louise Violet, a Paris teacher sent to a place where everyday life is linked to stations, land and crops and where she must convince children’s parents to go to her school. Although the education system was already mandatory, free and secular, the teacher will find many reluctance on the part of the families.
Better assembly for ‘Köln 75’ that narrates the organization of the Keith Jarrett concert in Colonia
For its part, Köln 75 the film directed by gone flow on how the adolescent Vera Brandes organized the legendary concert of the American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Colonia in 1975, won the best assembly for Anja Siemens and the ACCEC critics award.
Composer and singer Marc Parrot received the Peralada Castell Festival Award for Best Music for The van by Eloy Calvo, based on the graphic novel by Martín Tognola and Ramon Pardina. And Sara Hernández, from the House of Cinema, won the new talents award for the best short film for Spiral who portrays the day -to -day life of a single mother with precarious night work struggles to keep her children.
