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"Una oscura y poética meditación sobre Inglaterra bajo Thatcher"

En 'The Last of England', los recuerdos, los pensamientos y las fantasías de Derek Jarman son montados en un collage de estilos (crónica cuasi-documental, películas y vídeo), para ventilar su furia hacia la Inglaterra de Thatcher. El uso de imágenes de sueño, superposiciones y de diferentes tonalidades de color expresa el añoro nostálgico del pasado de Jarman. Esta película ha sido comparada con el poético documental de Humphrey Jennings “Escuche a Gran Bretaña” (1941), que da himno a los tiempos de guerra británica.

'The Last of England' es el segundo film estilo inglés diario de Jarman. En Jubilee (1978) presentó una Inglaterra de los 70 transformado por una rebelión punk. 'The Last of England' ofrece una visión apocalíptica de la futura nación como un estado homofóbico, represivo y totalitario. La enfermedad de la nación se refleja en los sombríos paisajes de East London – utilizado contemporáneamente por Stanley Kubrick en 'Full Metal Jacket' (US/UK, 1987) para representar los horrores de la Guerra de Vietnam. La declinación de dicha Inglaterra se manifiesta en las alteraciones físicas y mentales de sus habitantes: un hombre desnudo comiendo y vomitando un coliflor, la primavera inyectándose con heroína…

"…sexo sobre la Unión Jack (bandera británica) y la primavera masturbándose las convenciones sociales…"

Una mano temblorosa del camarógrafo evoca la ansiedad y la paranoia, y la omnipresente melancolía expresada en los extractos de los poemas de T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men y Howl de Allen Ginsberg, entonado monótonamente por el narrador Nigel Terry. La sensación del desplazamiento y la confusión es transmitida por una edición rápida y con ángulos inusuales de cámara. Una inquietante yuxtaposición de imágenes y sonidos nos recuerda a Dante's Inferno: un baile macabra de fogata es entrecortada con imágenes dramáticas. Esas imágenes son contrapunteadas por las sonatas de violín de Bach y música disco de los 80. Los cráneos, el fuego y las cenizas encarnan la muerte y la destrucción, mientras que las escenas de sexo en la bandera británica y la primavera masturbándose en las convenciones sociales nos sugiere un país en estado de caos y sórdida decadencia.

"A través de las lágrimas del arco iris ella ve un resplandor más brillante"

Esta representación es más poética que realista, la que Jarman mismo consideró como la pérdida de la cultura tradicional inglesa de los 80. Es nombrado en honor a una pintura de un artista Pre-Rafaelista, Ford Madox Brown. Al igual que otros de la misma tendencia, Brown escribió un soneto para exaltar su pintura: señala cómo la pareja fue obligado a escuchar "Low ribaldry from sots, and share tough cheer / With rudely-nurtur'd men, ... [nevertheless] "She grips his listless hand and clasps her child, / Through rainbow tears she sees a sunnier gleam, / She cannot see a void where he will be". En su poética e hipnótica pintura nos permite contemplar más aún las conexiones con imágenes de la película de Jarman.

"baila en la playa, llorando su vestido de novia aparte . ."

La impresionante secuencia final muestra una novia llorando por su marido ejecutado. Ella baila en una playa, llora con su vestido de novia, envuelta en las fuerzas creativas y destructivas del agua y del fuego, que prevalecen en la película. En el última toma, ella sale de la enfermiza tierra en barco - una escena de la pintura de Ford Madox Brown. Profundamente influido por las pinturas de Goya, la grotesca alegoría de la Italia de Mussolini de Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italia/Francia, 1975). The Last of England llora por la pérdida de la juventud y la esperanza que conduce a una sociedad más enferma y cruel. La película desvanece con una nueva apertura, como si estuviera exhortándonos a ser más conscientes, a ser más fuertes, y nos alientan a entrar valientemente en la oscuridad del mar, aún teniendo solamente una bengala de iluminación. Esa es la esencia desafiante de la humanidad de Jarman. Pese a los constantes rechazos de la corriente principal, Jarman estuvo aquí, en el tope de sus facultades creadoras.

Jarman escribió un libro para acompañar la película, que trata más explícitamente la relación que tuvo con su padre, quien fue en sus tiempos un piloto bombero Lancaster en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Jarman usó el impacto de la desesperación de su padre, la depresión y la violencia para su propia visión artística. La depresión que su padre sufrió es atribuido al alto número de fatalidades experimentados por su tripulación y las atrocidades de los bombardeos civiles. La película es también un medio para explorar su visión en la disolución del tradicional vida inglesa previa a la guerra. (Véase su anterior película 'Jubilee' para contextualizar con el movimiento punk de 1977). El libro y, en menor medida de la película están muy relacionada con la cámara de Roland Barthes Lucida, Susan Sontag y Jeanette Winterson, y en menor grado las maneras de ver de John Berger, que utiliza como un vehículo para el diálogo sobre el arte contemporáneo. Derel Jarman recibió el premio Teddy Award de 1988 en Berlín por “Last of England”.

Información del Film: 'The Last of England'

Web: Elenco, Biografías y Detalles Adicionales en IMDb
Director: Derek Jarman
Escritor: Derek Jarman
Género: Drama
Premios: 3 wins
Duración: 87 min
Lenguaje Hablado: Inglés

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. . " to reach audiences
through their hearts,
their minds, and their
genitals.
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Almodovar has stated he wants to reach audiences through "their hearts, their minds, and their genitals." In 'Law of Desire', he more than fulfills this challenge,

Released in 1987, The Law of Desire primarily revolves around gay theatrical director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) and his dangerous affair with obsessed stalker Antonio Benitez (Antonio Banderas). As the film opens, the 40-year-old director pines for young Juan Bermudez, but he realizes that his twenty-something bi-sexual partner can never fully reciprocate his love. Juan decides to sort things out and relocates to an isolated lighthouse. When Juan's first letter home doesn't satisfy, Pablo composes a more romantic letter that expresses melancholy longing and sends this back to Juan with instructions for him to sign and mail this back to him. This fake typewritten love memo provides a pivotal plot device.

Despite being lovesick for Juan, Pablo continues his sexually promiscuous lifestyle, and Antonio soon attaches himself to the filmmaker--far too clingy for Pablo's taste. This time the younger man lusts voraciously for the filmmaker, and is willing to do whatever he can to be with his man (reminiscent of Glenn Close's psychotic obsession in Fatal Attraction). When Antonio comes across Juan's sad, yearning love note, all Hell breaks loose. Neither Pablo's nor Juan's life will ever be the same as a result of this tragic three-way unrequited love triangle.

A subplot involves Pablo's transsexual sister Tina (Carmen Maura), who has a humorous moment with a lascivious priest that fondly remembers her pure voice when "she" served as an alter boy. Additional surprises are revealed, though these won't shock Almodovar devotees. A vivacious actress who is taking care of her ex-lover's daughter, Tina prepares for her brother's next play, The Human Voice (that forms the basis of Almodovar's next film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown).

The Law of Desire contains plenty of Almodovar touches and is brightened considerably by the acting talents of Maura and Banderas, it's no puzzle to see why Almodovar employed these two in multiple films. American audiences more familiar with Banderas' low key supporting role to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia can revel in wide-eyed amazement over his full raging homoerotic lust in this 1987 film. Banderas' intensity transforms what could have been bizarre off the wall melodrama into a provocative psychological study about the potential devastating cost of wanton love. Law of Desire is among the most powerful of Almodovar's early works.

Almodovar clearly demonstrates that weighty subject matter need not be presented in a meditative manner. Light-hearted touches often deliver more effectively--just like life. In the finale Almodóvar cuts to the massed policeman and interested onlookers (including Tina) arrayed on the street below. All look up towards the window as Almodóvar undertakes a hugely elegant tracking shot that reveals the crowd to be as immaculately and artificially arranged as the cast of some Broadway musical (opera might be more to the point). Then, in an unexpected, brilliant move—he cuts to show the front of the building, as the assembled cast (including Tina) rushes to climb the scaffolding, Keystone Cops-style. Freeze-frame on the madness, and Fin. Viva Pedro, indeed.

FILM INFORMATION:
'The Law of Desire'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar (screenplay) & Pedro Almodóvar (story)
Cast, Crew & Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Awards: 9 Wins & 3 Nominations
Runtime: 102 min
Spoken Language: Spanish
Subtitled in: English

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Although proudly a gay work, who could not be moved by Maurice's heartfelt question to Alec – which bridges class, education, and on a human level even sexual orientation – "Did you ever dream you could have a friend, someone to last your whole life?"

When Maurice and Alec finally come together, after all their tribulations (caused by both society and themselves), we feel as an audience that they have truly earned the right to love. Their connection is even more moving because of the enormous forces stacked against them, in the form of social oppression so severe that not only does it not want them to join together, it wants to keep each of them "in the closet" – unaware of their own intrinsic nature. When Maurice and Alec triumph over such pervasive adversity, we have seen and felt all that they were up against: class differences, the law, religion, and a society too frightened and cynical to confront its own prejudices.

The ending of Maurice works because we see the stark contrast to Maurice and Alec's happiness in the perfunctory marriage of Clive and Anne. Clive's is the road Maurice almost forced himself to take (through hypnosis, no less), with his fears of social reprisal. We know that Clive may well go on to financial and even political success; and Anne seems like a nice woman, even if she is a bit chirpy and unreflective. But Maurice and Alec have at last achieved something special together.

And there is now a wonderful, almost telepathic – and profoundly romantic – connection between the two men. Maurice intuitively knew where to meet Alec (the boat house) even though he never got Alec's note: just imagine how differently things might have turned out for, say, Romeo and Juliet if those "star-cross'd lovers" had been as attuned to each other as these two men.This resolution is also so powerful because they each make a supreme sacrifice, take major leaps of (romantic) faith: Maurice actually does "chuck it all" for love, and so does Alec, forgoing a fresh start in Argentina to be with the man he loves. And the narrative is also left open in a satisfying yet provocative way. (Happily, Forster discarded his original epilogue, described in his Terminal Note to the manuscript as "Kitty encountering two woodcutters some years later;" he then goes on to say that this scene "gave universal dissatisfaction. Epilogues are for Tolstoy.")

On the one hand, the ending shows us the fulfillment of Maurice's painful yet essential journey of growth towards self-understanding, self-acceptance, and the sharing of love and passion with another. The spirit, the flesh, and even the mind, have at last come together. But Maurice's final moments are also wonderfully, vitally open: Maurice and Alec take their first steps together into a larger world (although unlike Forster, writing in 1913, we know that World War I looms just one year away). Another of Maurice's pleasures is that it that allows, almost demands, that each of us imagine our own "sequel." For the romantically-disinclined, several reasons can be whipped up for the dissolution of their bond. But for those of us with faith in Maurice and Alec's union, we can speculate, Did they fight in the War? Were they together, or separated – perhaps by reasons of class? Was their love found out; and if so how did they escape from the inevitable stockade? And if we believe that they both survived the War, where did they go afterward? Did they remain in England, or try the Continent; or did they emigrate to a distant land to begin a new, more open life, say in the Australian outback or the U.S.'s "wild west" or somewhere remote South America? What do you think happened to them? The questions are as tantalizing as they are provocative; each person who comes to Maurice will, of course, imagine their own continuation.

What's in a name? As we see at various points, how you address someone in this stratified society matters enormously: Scudder is how you call a servant, Mr. Scudder is a respectable fellow, and Alec is what you whisper to the man who you love. Maurice's surname – Hall – how perfectly it fits his character. A hall can be many different things: a narrow passageway, or an expansive room, even a magnificent home. With Maurice, we saw this extraordinarily ordinary young man progressively embody each of those three meanings, as he lead himself from the straight and narrow, into a place of openness and possibility, together with the man he loves and with whom, we hope, he creates a lasting home.

It is no wonder that such a heartfelt, resonant tale continues to appeal to people, who can be moved by this universal celebration of self-discovery, integrity and love. ~ J. Clark

Information: 'Maurice'

The traditional bildungsroman, or novel of education, ends with a marriage. E.M. Forster's Maurice(1914), the second of his novels to be adapted by Merchant Ivory, takes on a subject that no major novel in the genre had ever addressed: the problem of coming of age as a homosexual in a restrictive society. First published in 1971, after Forster's death, and long neglected by critics, it is only recently (and largely since the release of the film adaptation) that critics have come to set Maurice in its unique place among "Reader, I married him" narratives.Starring James Wilby (Maurice) and Hugh Grant (Clive) as two Cambridge undergraduates who fall in love, the film is set amidst the hypocritical homoerotic subculture of the English university in Forster's time. In an environment in which any reference to " the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" is omitted, and any overture toward a physical relationship between men might be punishable by law, Maurice and Clive struggle to come to terms with their own feelings toward each other and toward a repressive society.

Maurice was shot on location largely in the halls and quadrangles of King's College, Cambridge (including stunning interiors in the college's world famous Gothic chapel), where Forster was educated and later returned as a Fellow. The other interiors were primarily shot at Wilbury Park, an early Palladian house in Wilshire. Called Pendersleigh in the film, this setting is where Maurice visits his friend Clive; here he later meets the under-gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), who climbs in his window one night in order to "share" with Maurice, as the genteel Edwardians put it. Wilbury Park was a warm-up for Ivory for the grand country house scenes in The Remains of the Day, shot six years later.

Wilby, under Ivory's direction, infuses the title character with a quiet sensitivity and an underlying sense of desperation to create a character who, as Forster wrote, has "an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him." Grant plays Clive with a blend of dead-on English public school arrogance and intimate vulnerability that attracts, and then nearly destroys, Maurice.

Mark Tandy is the confident Cantabridgian Lord Risley, whose later conviction as a criminal "of the Oscar Wilde sort" changes the course of the film. Denholm Elliot, Simon Callow, and Ben Kingsley turn in strong performances as alternately well meaning and judgmental men who try and guide Maurice into a conventional married life.

The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 1987, where Ivory was awarded a Silver Lion as Best Director, sharing the prize with Ermanno Olmi. James Wilby and Hugh Grant were jointly awarded Best Actor, and Richard Robbins received the prize for his music -- a subtle and richly atmospheric score that is one the most memorable features of Maurice. ~ Merchant Ivory Productions

Film Information: 'Maurice'

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Director: James Ivory
Writers: E.M. Forster (novel), Kit Hesketh-Harvey (writer)
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Genre: Drama / Romance
Awards: Nominated for Oscar & 4 wins
Runtime: 140 min
Spoken LanguageEnglish
Subtitled in: None

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