CICLO DE CINE INTERNACIONAL

The Teatro Rosalío Solano is showing a series of films that won the Palme d'or in Cannes.  Admission is free.  The judges favor very long films (2 hours or more), or films that seem very long (Gus Van Sant's Elephant).  They also seem to like confusing and/or murky themes and symbolism.  The films are shown in chronological order.


So far we've seen:

WWII in the USSR:  the cranes (looked like geese to us) come back, many of the soldiers don't.

She tries to be good, but she only wreaks havoc.

Duarte's Keeper of Promises (cross-bearing peasant vs the Church)

Altman's M.A.S.H. (very sexist for modern taste)

See a pig slaughtered and butchered from starting squeal to chops.

Man kills wife and replaces her with an eel.  Not "erotic" by my standards.

and Angelopoulos's Eternity and a Day.  The movie seemed longer than that except for the scenes with this young Albanian:

We don't mind the length of the films too much because it's been very hot here (90s) and the theater is air-conditioned.  There are four screenings daily and we attend the 4:00 showing because that's the hottest time of the day.

We skipped a couple,  Elephant and Man of Iron, not just because we had seen them before, but mostly because we had better things to do over the weekend.  We're going to see The Wind That Shakes the Barley today.  No murky theme there.  We've seen it before, but it's not the weekend.  And it's still hot.  And it's in English.