牛头怪 Acclaimed Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicols Pereda returns to the Festival with Minotaur,牛头怪 a pendant to his 2009 feature Juntos. Shot in the Mexico City apartment of Pereda’s signature actor Gabino Rodrguez,红桃视频kht21vip网址 Minotaur is an incandescent chamber piece that observes three thirtysomethings (Rodrguez, Luisa Pardo and Francisco Barreiro) as they sleep, dream, read, and receive visitors (including the housekeeper who takes care of them) in their communal space. A lovely and lethargic spell is cast as an ambiguous, Marienbad-like love triangle emerges among the trio, conveyed through literature (books function as telepathic transmitters and definers of relationships), choreography, and the acute physical presence of the three leads. Extending Pereda’s recurring interests in class, social structure and family relations in Mexican society in its wraithlike fantasy of a leisure class that is quite literally sustained in its narcoleptic existence by the ministrations of the domestic help, Minotaur evokes the films of Tsai Ming-liang in its distended naturalism, ritualistic solitude, and creation of a cloistered world suffused with longing. The surreal aura of Minotaur seeps beyond the confines of the trio’s apartment into a strange "night without distance" in Lois Patio’s hallucinatory portrait of border smuggling in the Gers Mountains between Portugal and Galicia. Casting real townsfolk, some of whom were smugglers in their youth, Patio places their stiffly Straubian presences within cross-processed, multilayered tableaux of rocks, river, and trees — an ever-indeterminate place that has imbibed and borne witness to innumerable, desperate acts of survival. Conjuring an instant in the memory of a landscape filled with ghosts, Night without distance extracts spellbinding fantasy from the real.“起来吧,你还算好运,要是公主心情不好,我看你这条小命早就没了。”那丫环有点担忧地对我说,我记得她,她小名真儿,是跟我同一天被卖入这殿里当下人的。“兵乒”,“乓乓”,卧室里的高挡装饰,灯饰被打得支离破碎,满地狼籍。时槿兰似不解气,又发狠的抓着时初的头对着旁边的护栏猛地撞了几下,满目恨意地咬牙说道“你这个灾星!要不是因为你,惜时他不会出车祸,至今还昏迷不醒!!你说你哪儿来的脸,还好意思在这世上活着?!”说,姐姐是真心跟你相交,怎么会计较你是不是有礼物给我呢?而且,刚才妹妹说的话,让我受益匪浅,这只簪子,就当做是姐姐的一份谢礼吧。”
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