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Festival showings and prizes

posted 14 years ago by ExpFil
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Ruiz's films had been getting less love from the major festivals of late but, since it was first unveiled to a select crowd of critics and celebs at Cannes 2010, Mysteries of Lisbon has been shown at Toronto, San Sebastián, Vancouver, Pusan, New York, Vienna, São Paulo, London, Estoril, Turin and, now moving into 2011, at Rotterdam, Adelaide, Prague, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, Munich, New Zealand, Cambridge and Inverness.

[–] Chapaev36 14 years ago

I'll try to make it to Toronto to see this, but much will depend on whether the tix are easy to obtain.

I'll start calling early on the first day of individual ticket sales. It's really the only one I want to see.

I'm glad Raul survived his cancer battle, because it would be that much more difficult watching this knowing that it would be his last ever work.

[–] ExpFil 14 years ago

I know what you mean. In his latest interview, RR says when he thought he was dying and this was to be his last film, the work took on an additional pathos and solemnity never intended in the screenplay.

Hope you make it to Toronto. I've fingers crossed the film will get UK distribution - I'd love to see this baby on the big screen!

[–] ExpFil 14 years ago

Sprawling, fantastical narrative of 19th-century secrets and crimes - an epic entertainment from visionary master Raul Ruiz.

Raúl Ruiz - cinema's grand master of the surreal and otherworldly - usually makes concise, bewitchingly fragmentary films. So when he stretches out - as he does flamboyantly here - you can be sure you're in for something out of the ordinary. Based on a novel by 19th-century writer Camilo Castelo Branco (also a favourite of Manoel de Oliveira), this picaresque epic begins with the enigma of a young man's parentage and branches out - through a labyrinthine construction of tales within tales - to become a secret history of the 19th-century society high and low, in the vein of Dumas, Dickens and Hugo. Moving between Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil, its narrative involves jealous countesses, reformed libertines and mysterious priests, in a tapestry of coincidences, revelations and secret identities. With sumptuous production values and a populous cast including Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud and Catarina Wallenstein (Oliveira's Blonde-Haired Girl), this is Ruiz's answer to that hallucinogenic classic The Saragossa Manuscript, as well as his most ambitious work since the Proust adaptation Time Regained - and quite possibly his magnum opus.

Jonathan Romney

[taken from http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/591]

[–] Chapaev36 14 years ago

Just saw it - it was awesome.

[–] ExpFil 14 years ago

Lucky, lucky. Will you be posting a review on here?

Also great to read that RR was well enough to travel to the San Sebastian Festival the other day.

Just found his press conference here: http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pelicula.php?ano=2010&codig o=580060

[–] Chapaev36 14 years ago

Glad to see that he's better. I wish he'd come to Toronto. :(

I might write a review. This one would actually require care though. :)

[–] ExpFil 14 years ago

"The 58th San Sebastian Film Festival wrapped last night with the usual set of controversial awards, mostly greeted at the press conference with childish whistling and hissing (never a dignified experience), although a woman with a big hat did seem especially cheered by a directing award for Chilean director Raul Ruiz. (Confession time: I have never seen a Ruiz movie, even though I've been aware of him for over 20 years and have often wondered about his 1979 film Hypothesis Of The Stolen Painting. However, I was not about to start with The Mysteries Of Lisbon, a fractured ensemble piece centred on an orphan in a boarding school and moving from Portugal to France, Italy and Brazil – in an impressive, even by festival standards, four and a half hours. By the time I arrived at San Sebastian, it was no longer screening with English subtitles, so my Ruiz christening will have to wait.)"

- Damon Wise @ http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p937

[–] ExpFil 14 years ago

Mysteries wins again. And for what it's worth, Ruiz was also awarded a "Prêmio Humanidade".

http://en.mostra.org/journal/39

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

I know for some people it means nothing, but I'd be very happy to see it nominated for an Oscar. If it keeps winning prizes maybe it can build a momentum and fall under the Academy's radar.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Disappointed to read that the European Film Awards ignored Mysteries:
http://incontention.com/2010/11/06/the-ghost-writer-leads-european-fil m-award-noms/

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

What I find disturbing is The Secret In Their Eyes...

The Secret In Their Eyes? The Argentine movie? The clearly Hollywood-inspired Argentine movie without any quality? That syrupy, oversentimental, manipulative movie?

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Campanella is the kind of safe filmmaker who wins Oscars. Ruiz is anti-mainstream.

[–] anabelat 13 years ago

Was Mistérios de Lisboa illegible? I'm not sure, because it was released very recently.

But I am honestly surprised El secreto de Sus Ojos was nominated. I can't see anything european about it. That film is argentinian.
Also, Soul Kitchen was fine and entertaining, but I didn't think it was good enough.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Well, at least Mysteries has been nommed for France's Louis Delluc Prize.
http://www.screendaily.com/news/europe/carlos-of-gods-and-men-among-pr ix-louis-delluc-shortlist/5020886.article

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

Always trust the snotty French to recognise great art

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

You may be right. In the January 2011 issue of Sight & Sound (p.27), Michel Ciment puts Mysteries in his Top 5 of 2010 and calls it a "masterpiece" which "would have made Visconti jealous".

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

You know, just a few months ago I watched Ludwig, and I wondered, why don't we see super-long period dramas full of luxurious costumes and visually stunning sets in theatres anymore? And then this movie came out!

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

I just noticed that a couple of UK critics who put Mysteries in their Top Five of 2010 had nice things to say too.

Ian Christie:
Ruiz returns triumphantly to the baroque dream world he creates better than anyone.

Nick James:
Sumptuously conceived, seemingly in the opulent style of late Visconti but actually with terrific economy, this flashback-based slippery narrative of progeniture and changing fortunes in 19th-century Europe combines the pleasures of Dickens and symbolist poetry.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Mysteries beat Polanski, Assayas, Beauvois and Tavernier to the prestigious prize!

[–] anabelat 13 years ago

I'm really glad. These are great news :)

[–] paulojsperalta 13 years ago

Mistérios de Lisboa has just won three awards:

Best Film (Paulo Branco producer and Raul Ruíz director)
Best Actor (Adriano Luz)
Best Actress (Maria João Bastos)

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

A clean sweep!!

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

Read that today in the newspaper. I'm happy for Ruiz, but it breaks my heart to see my two favourite movies of the year in competition. Why can't they both win awards

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Which was your other favourite, Eumenides_0?

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

I haven't seen many movies from 2010 actually. The only other that I'd put in these two's league is Scorsese's Shutter Island.

The Social Network was enjoyable, I loved the dialogue. I've still got Winter's Bone, True Grit and Black Swan to watch. I have high expectations for those.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

I meant: which of the other Louis Delluc prize nominees did you like as much as Mysteries?

[–] Eumenides_0 13 years ago

Oh, sorry

I meant Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

I love Polanski too (especially his pre-1980 stuff). Maybe the jury felt that Mysteries needs the exposure more than Ghost Writer? (For example, the former has only 138 votes on IMDb while the latter has over 30,000!)

[–] paulojsperalta 13 years ago

And Mistérios de Lisboa also won the Autores Award for Best Screenplay (Carlos Saboga) from the Portuguese Authors Society (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores) last January.
The film was also nominated for Best Fil, Best Actor (Adriano Luz) and Best Actress (Maria João Bastos).

[–] ExpFil 13 years ago

Cool. I see it's also been nommed at the Portuguese Golden Globes (winners to be announced on 29 May 2011).
http://aeiou.caras.pt/nomeados-cinema-xvi-gala-dos-globos-de-ouro=f373 60

[–] paulojsperalta 13 years ago

Yes. The film got five nominations at the Portuguese Golden Globes.

Film
Actor, Adriano Luz
Actor, Ricardo Pereira
Actress, Maria João Bastos
Actress, Joana de Verona (also for Como Desenhar um Círculo Perfeito, from Marco Martins).

[–] okrim37 13 years ago

it won Best Film, Best Actor (Adriano Luz) and Best Actress (Maria João Bastos, very deservedly so!)