Cannes ‘07: Go Abel, Go
May 24th, 2007 by Andre Soares
Xan Brooks in The Guardian:
(After reading the paragraph below, all I could think was, Bresson, le pauvre…)
"Abel Ferrara makes movies marinated in Catholic guilt, soaked in blood and frequently undulating with semi-naked women. These have sometimes been likened to the work of Martin Scorsese, although Scorsese never went so far as to have Harvey Keitel masturbate in front of a group of schoolgirls, as Ferrara had him do in Bad Lieutenant. Alternatively, several critics have found parallels with the films of the French master Robert Bresson, despite the fact that Bresson, so far as I know, never actually featured a scene in which a pole dancer French-kisses her Doberman Pinscher, as is the case in Go Go Tales. Love him or loathe him, Ferrara is a bit of a one-off."
The Cannes screening of Ferrara’s Go Go Tales at Brooks’ The Guardian blog:
"So far as I could tell, nobody walked out of the [Joel and Ethan] Coen brothers’ film No Country For Old Men, which must qualify it as an unqualified hit. In stark contrast, about a third of the audience abandoned last night’s screening of the new Abel Ferrara drama Go Go Tales. The exodus started at around the half-hour mark and petered out about 20 minutes before the end."
More from Brooks’ The Guardian blog — "Cannes is full of film-makers without borders":
"Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart is referred to as the lone British feature in the selection, even though it is backed by an American company, stars two Hollywood actors (Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman) and is based on a book by a Parisian of Afro-Cuban descent (Mariane Pearl). By contrast, the Joy Division biopic Control boasts a Mancunian setting and a crop of British players but barely merits a mention because the director (Anton Corbijn) is Dutch."
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