CINEMA 2020
Annual Guide
Panhellenic Union Film Critics
The annual Cinema guide for 2020 has been released!
From the editorial:
The Moral Dimension of Cinema
We were about to forget it... Georges Sadoul spoke about it, it was put into practice by Eric Romer and many others of a previous, theoretically obsolete generation. Both of them, somewhat given over to the unsolicited theory, seemed to have lost their cinematic footholds between glittering constructions and internet wits.
Fortunately, the over ninety-year-old Marco Bellocchio managed to "see the poets" and with the tenacity of a teenager he set out to remind - in the most critical period of the seventh art - the reason why a shot can be a whole world. Could it be that the traitor is his beloved countryman, who with his Godfather transformed a dragon of criminals into philosophers, who utter long-winded sayings of the type "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" or again "I made him a proposition which could not refuse'? He must have held for years the belief that Coppola's timeless masterpiece, thanks to the chiaroscuro of the lighting, brought his shots to the limits of Caravaggio and Tintoretto, but stayed on this side of their moral dimension. The Godfather with his thoughtful style became a role model, engendering a desire to imitate in every market adventurer, as he represented the ruler of cheapness. We had also seen them in Jarmus' Ghost Dog, Scorsese had also sketched them in his Good Guys - with a dose of caress -, but now...
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