牛头怪 Acclaimed Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicols Pereda returns to the Festival with Minotaur,守寡多年的妇岳给了我 a pendant to his 2009 feature Juntos. Shot in the Mexico City apartment of Pereda’s signature actor Gabino Rodrguez,牛头怪 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.回忆突然汹涌,六岁那年,我第一次跟爷爷赶尸,途中碰见了不干净的东西,爷爷的符咒丝毫不起作用,情急之下竟然一把抓起了我的手,用力地咬破我的手指。“没错,不过昨天我见院里的侍卫暂时控制住了宋慧娴,便让他们将宋慧娴关进后院废弃的柴房中了。但若是被宋镇安发现他的宝贝女儿不见了,怕也是不可。”那……那不是一直在高间门口守着的那个保姆吗?估计是知道高间出事了着急赶回去呢。这是出卖邻居换来的,你让我怎么跟邻居们交待?拿了八十万拆迁款心里是高兴,可一想到没脸面对那些老邻居,夏建国就犯难。
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