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Film round-up with Maria Duarte
Reviews of Official Competition, Black Mail, Mr Malcolm's List and Beast
Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in Official Competition
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Official Competition (15)
Directed by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat
★★★★
ARGENTINE duo Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat team up again, this time to take aim at the pretentious world of cinema and art in this surreal, biting satire about a millionaire who hires a renowned eccentric filmmaker to make the greatest film ever as his legacy.
Penelope Cruz portrays the exacting director Lola Cuevas, who considers herself an artist, who deliberately casts famous film star Felix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) and intellectual Thespian Ivan Torres (Oscar Martinez) as brothers in this film within a film to see sparks fly.
Rivero, who loves the trappings of fame, is arrogant and feels turning up on set is enough as his charisma and talent will do the trick, while Torres believes in hard work, preparation, a fair wage and travels in economy.
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