#2009 Cannes Film Festival

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, Terry Gilliam)

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Mother, Bong Joon-ho, 2009

INTENSE.

It makes me literally agonising with her character.

The soundtracks are fascinating and winsome.

The last song in the credits is fabulous.

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Ran Danker and Zohar Strauss

62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2009. 📸 LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images

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Prima del film "Non guardare indietro"

Festival di Cannes 2009

Sophie Marceau Monica Bellucci Red

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Raïna interview at VoyageLA page.

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Dr. Raïna Manuel-Paris has a multicultural background, born of a French father and a Dominican mother. She was raised in France and England until her early 20’s then moved to the US. Fairy tales and Legends were her refuges. They helped her understand the difficulties of her childhood. By the age of twelve, she had read most of the myths and legends of the world. From Ireland and Russia to Arabia. She holds a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with emphasis in Depth Psychology from PGI.

She also holds a Masters Degree in Film from Columbia U. She taught Magic and Ritual and Myth and Symbol for 15 years at the Art Institute in Santa Monica, where she also offered guided meditations and somatic energy work. Her own spiritual seeking and evolution has taken her from Bali to the sacred shores of Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre… She is also adjunct faculty at PGI where she taught a course in Archetypal Patterns in Cinema. She assisted Dr. Lionel Corbett during his Psyche and the Sacred workshop with its ritual aspect. She has also taught at the Relativity School in Downtown LA. She is a published author of non-fiction and scholarly articles: Trauma War and Spiritual Transformation, Journal of Jungian Thought, 2017; The Mother- to-be Dream Book. Warner Books, 2002.) She is also a poet and published one book of poetry with Raven Books as well as several poems in various publications. Her documentary the Bridges of My Father was selected for the short film corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

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Currently, Raïna splits her time between Los Angeles and Ojai, CA. She works with individuals in a process she calls “The Cradle and the Crown,” assisting men and women in coming to alignment body mind and soul, developing deep aliveness as well as careful listening to the whisperings of their soul’s desire. She also uses the Tarot and other oracle tools to help her clients. She is a speaker /lecturer at the Joseph Campbell roundtable on the Tarot: the 22 universal patterns of transformation and on Love: Primal Agent of Change as well as the Myth Salon in LA. She has given numerous lectures at the Philosophical Research Society and taught workshops based on the Cradle and The Crown process. She practices Natural Horsemanship, with her horse Quincy, and also spends time exploring the Ojai valley with her husky mix, Numen. She also plays the ancient frame drum and sings. She is working to complete a novel with archetypal motifs. She also wrote a play with writing partner Susan Kacvinsky: “Seeking Sophia” which had a staged reading in Los Angeles in 2014.

Her work with students, including many veterans, always emphasizes the ways in which one reconnects the Soul of the World, Anima Mundi, with Corpus Mundi, the body of the world, and how to hold the tension between the inner world and the outer world in a way that engages curiosity and compassion. She worked on an online course “Awakening the Magician Within” as well as on her lecture “What Women Want”. Probably the one thing that has been at the core of her life is the understanding that we are all spiritual beings, whether we know it or not, magical beings with a desire for healing and love. And that archetypal stories, and the ancient mysteries of nature, provide a helpful direction towards an authentic relationship with the Self. Having a life with ritual and contemplation is very helpful as well. Soul, she believes, needs Mystery more than Meaning in order to feel the joy of its divinity.

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Has it been a smooth road? A life is not a smooth ride, ever, if you want to actually live. What I learned as a child was so filled with confusion and misunderstanding, judgment, and rage, I became fear-based and so mixed up inside I had to learn to untangle all the different strands of my life and identify them, like the four impossible tasks given to Psyche, There has been many losses and deep grief along the way as well as health challenges. But always the deepest learning comes from all those challenges as well as the wisdom of the body, Re-learning to listen to the instincts and the intuition, trusting the inner guidance which has always been there but that took time to relearn to trust. I had to learn how to live from a place of inner authority as opposed to outer expectations. The mystical tools, like the Tarot, and the wisdom teachings of the ages, have always been beautiful signposts along the way.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know? I am not someone who likes to teach or talk about something for the sake of talking. I need to come from love in whatever I do. Specially because I was so fear-based, And I also need to know what I am talking about, what I am trying to convey, not only intellectually but in the body and in the heart. I am a scholar, a guide and a poet. And I do not ever talk about a subject however scholarly without implicating myself on a personal level. It’s not something I decided to do, it’s just how I am. I am always trying to live a life that is absolutely personal and authentic to me and at the same time, share my experience with others in the hopes that it might be helpful or useful.

So I go into the places of the In-Between, of liminality. It is the place of dreams, of imagination, and it is also the world of Nature, where the truth lives, at the threshold between this world and the archetypal world, I work with the tarot from an archetypal viewpoint because it is an ancient wisdom tool and I believe it helps give perspective to this crazy road trip called life, which often seems to spiral back to the same places we have experienced before. I also teach a seminar about the Cradle and the Crown process which helps people connect with the power and passion of childhood joy as well as the wisdom of inner authority. Once the weeds of false beliefs get rooted out, I find there is a beautiful way to live in tune with the Self and the world around us.

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Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least? I love that the city is surrounded by Nature, so close by, from parks and mountains to ocean.

It is a challenging place with just as many opportunities to heal and transform, as there are opportunities to lose oneself.

Raïna Paris interview at VoyageLA on-line magazine published the 20th May 2020. The name of the person who wrote this article or conducted this interview is not listed.

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Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdu, Francis Ford Coppola and Vincent Gallo attend the Tetro premiere at the Palais Stafanie during the 62nd International Film Festival on May 14, 2009 in Cannes, France.

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Festival di Cannes, première del film di Pedro Almodóvar "Los abrazos rotos", 19 maggio 2009

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Antichrist: The Most Honest Film About Mental Ilness, Grief and "Nature" of Women

3.05.24 - Blog Post #10

Antichrist, the film Lars von Trier made when he was diagnosed with severe depression and dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky, was booed at the Cannes Film Festival and Trier was declared a misogynist. When I think about how the film, which is about a couple whose children have died and who go to a country house to grieve, managed to become one of the most unpopular films by Trier, who always portrays female characters in his films, I realize that the film is completely misunderstood. In 2009, before the current social media lynching culture was born, Trier was right to make this risky film, because today, cinephiles fed on films like Barbie or Poor Things under the guise of "feminist film" would probably crucify Trier. So why is this film so disturbing and offensive to feminists?

Antichrist, the evil brother of Solaris and Andrei Rublev, has a seemingly simple story. The movie was promoted as a horror movie before its release, and it already contains a lot of horror elements. The audience who went to the cinema, expecting a horror movie, must have been slapped left and right and realized that the film was more than a horror movie: just as Rublev was more than a historical drama or Solaris more than a science fiction film. Based on the horror movie cliché of going to a cabin in a deserted forest, the film opens with perhaps the best and most ambitious sequence in the history of cinema: Unnamed He and She, father and mother, are making love when their young son Nick, who managed to get out of his crib, falls through an open window. She is hospitalized after the death of his son and tries to recover with medication. Her husband is a psychologist. The man, who thinks that psychiatrists put his wife to drugs and argues that the grieving process should be overcome in a natural way without medication, takes her out of the hospital despite her objections. After leaving the hospital, the woman suffers from anxiety attacks, and she self-harms and feels fear and terror of unexplained origin. Realizing that she fears a forest called Eden, her husband forces her to go to Eden and face her fears.

Their son, Nick - Still from Antichrist, dir. Lars von Trier, 2009

As he tries to persuade her to leave the hospital, she says to him, “Yes, you are very smart, you must be smarter than a doctor, of course you know best.” She lashes out in a spiteful voice. In the movie, he completely suspends his own grieving process and takes on the role of her savior, completely disregarding her own wishes and feelings. The therapy he wants to do is all about the confrontation of fear and uncovering her subconscious, very Freudian. The treatment and attitude that the man confidently tries to apply, which will end in disaster, is a phenomenon that women in the medical world have had to face for years. The woman, who is in a state of mind that Freud would call hysterical, is going through an atypical grieving process. Before her hospitalization, the woman we see at her son's funeral is quite expressionless, then she faints and and is hospitalized. At home, she has anxiety attacks and harms herself. Although these are behaviors that can be seen in the grieving process, they are not common. The arrogant man, unwilling to accept that the woman needs medical help and that this is beyond him, rejects modern medicine and asks her to flush her antidepressants down the toilet. Although he is portrayed as the kind, self-sacrificing and thoughtful husband who tries to help her, he actually represents the masculine order that does not listen to women struggling with mental illness and difficulties, considering them “hysterical” and “abnormal”. The audience, who does not see these points, thinks that the man is portrayed as “good” and “smart” and declares Trier a misogynist. In fact, the situation is quite the opposite.

The evil things the man does under the name of helping the woman are countless. Taking the woman to a completely different environment when she was already at the beginning of the grieving process, tearing her away from her routine and taking away her medication support, the man then takes her to a deserted forest where she will only be alone with her own subconscious and pain. The fact that she faints at the funeral shows that she is unable to face anything, that her brain has shut down. If our brain is trying to make us forget something and focus on other things, it means that we are not in a position to handle the situation. Throwing a person into the lap of something they are not ready for does nothing but teach them harmful coping mechanisms, or drive them mad. This is where the arrogant and overconfident husband misses the point. Not every prescription fits every situation. Before they go to the forest, as they travel on the train, he asks her to close her eyes and imagine she is in the forest. We see the woman crossing a bridge in Eden. This bridge actually represents the transition from consciousness to the subconscious: Whatever binds her to reality is now left behind, Eden, nature, will now control her.

She crosses the bridge - Still from Antichrist dir. Lars von Trier, 2009

The most important point emphasized by feminists attacking the film is Trier's allegory of Woman-Nature-Evil-Devil. The woman, who is equated with nature, is shown as the enemy of reason, that is, of man and civilization, but this is not the focus. When they go to Eden, for example, the man keeps seeing "abnormalities" in nature: The shells sticking to his hands, the fox eating itself, the deer carrying the dead body of its half-born fawn remind us that everything we consider abnormal comes from nature. The fact that nature is described as horrible and cruel in the movie is actually the result of Trier's state of mind at the time, not because he wanted to vilify women. Suffering from severe depression, unable to control his own body, having panic attacks and depressive episodes, Trier wrote the script for Antichrist while taking heavy doses of Prozac. Because he was in major depression, everything seemed bad and meaningless, and Trier reflected his painful state of mind in the movie. In the film, Trier actually shows the helplessness of human beings in the face of mental illness and grief, because there is still no explanation for most cases of depression and mental illnesses other than childhood traumas - the more the rational side of the human being tries to find a reason for the situation, the more unmanageable the situation becomes. Some depressions really do come out of the blue and leave you helpless, and so does anxiety. In the movie, both men and women are helpless, nature is bad, harsh, and human beings, as a reflection of nature, suffer pain that they cannot help. I think the fact that this is analyzed through the woman in the movie is not an insult to the woman, it shows that her situation is even more difficult than men. The woman in the film was probably suffering from postpartum depression for years and unfortunately nobody realized it, not even her husband, the big-nosed psychologist.

Still from Antichrist dir. Lars von Trier, 2009

The movie parallels many of the teachings in the book Antichrist, from which it takes its title. In a chapter he adds at the end of the book, Nietzsche says: “Any transgression against nature is a sin. The most sinful man is the priest: he teaches transgression against nature. What is to be shown to the priest is not the reasons, but the asylum.” In the movie, the man is a priest, rejects modern medicine, separates the woman from her own nature, shames and punishes her for his instincts. He puts the woman at war with her own mind, with her own nature. Most mental illnesses are the result of fighting with one's own nature, which is in fact an animalistic. The people most oppressed and alienated from their nature by religion and social conventions are of course women, especially modern women. There is a flashback in the movie: The woman who wrote a thesis about women who were burned at the stake in the Middle Ages goes to Eden to complete her thesis, taking her young son with her. For some reason, her husband doesn't take care of the baby. The woman, who is supposed to be working, studying and being a great mother, slowly loses her mind and this loneliness goes unnoticed. The woman is afraid of being punished and at the same time carries a great guilt: In nature there are lions that eat their own cubs, cats that tear up yheir weak kittens, birds that throw chicks out of their nests - things that are unthinkable for humans. No matter what a woman does, she cannot exist: Even if she goes against her nature, even if she follows it, she is always doomed to feel guilty and incomplete. The fact that Trier reflects this in the movie doesn't mean that he shows women as hysterical maniacs, he just boldly shows those terrible impulses that no one wants to talk about.

The film not only offers different interpretations of mental illness, postpartum depression and atypical grief, but also focuses on religion-it is a great criticism of religion which is used to restrain society. We also see man's fight with his own nature, also the helplessness of human beings in the face of nature. The conflict between the logical side of us and the things that we cannot control: Our instincts, sexual desires, mental illnesses and aggression. Just like Solaris, Antichrist has a special place in my heart because, by disguising itself as another genre, it actually depicts the process of mourning and the guilt over a death and the most importantly, man's constant struggle with his own psyche. Also when it comes to the feminist backlash, contrary to the blinkered folks at Cannes, I see this movie as a criticism of men who put women in this grotesque state and then try to destroy or restrain them by burning them, destroying them, drugging them.

Because of the feminist backlash, I had to read the movie in terms of gender. May God protect Trier who gave us this masterpiece, from angry cinephile feminists. I hope in one day, we will become a society which is not this angry about the different depictions of the human condition in cinema.

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Up (2009, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

19/05/2024

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PETER MULLAN IS RED JACOB MACKENZIE

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker, he was born in Peterhead, a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UK. He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. He decided to dedicate himself to acting and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television.

His feature film work over the last several decades stretches across every genre, including roles in Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Miss Julie (1999), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), The Red Riding Trilogy (2009), War Horse (2011) The Vanishing, the Harry Potter film series (2010–11) and The Vanishing (2018).

Although his part in Braveheart was a small recurring role as one of the Scottish army foot soldiers, Mullan was to go on to enjoy a breakthrough shortly after Gibson’s classic film hit cinemas.

He followed Braveheart with his part as the drug dealer Mother Superior in Trainspotting, then found himself being fêted by Martin Scorsese when he won the best actor award at Cannes for Ken Loach’s film, ‘My Name Is Joe’ (1998), filmed in Argyll and Glasgow.

Trainspotting 1996 ‧ Crime/Thriller

Mullan has a vast body of work but is probably best known for his portrayal of Joe in the 1988 Ken Loach film ‘My Name is Joe’. For this work, he won the highly prized Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mullan in My Name is Joe, directed by Ken Loach. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library

A few years later, in 2011, the Sundance Film Festival awarded Mullan a World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances for his role as Joseph in Paddy Considine’s Thriller/Drama ‧ ‘Tyrannosaur’ (2011) with Olivia Colman.

Since then, Mullan has gone on to work with directors like Steven Spielberg (War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ) alongside Jeremy Irvine and with Alfonso Cuarón popped up as a totalitarian crank in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, goading the dispossessed into parading their “refugee face”. On Mullan suggestion, Cuarón swapped his character’s weapon of choice for something less obvious, but more threatening, and has become one of the most respected modern film and TV actors.

War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ‧ Film of the Year 2012

He has also made his name as a director, with acclaimed movies such as Neds, Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters.

His other film credits include ‘Hercules’ 2014 ‧ Action/Fantasy alongside Dwayne Johnson as General Sitalces, Commander of the Thracian army. Lord Cotys's second-in-command right-hand man portrayed by the late John Hurt.

Sunset Song, 2015 ‧ Romance/Drama Terence Davies’s adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’s novel, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge into global catastrophe as the First World War devastates her village.

Starring Peter Mullan, as Chris’s abusive dad. was filmed at various locations across Scotland in Aberdeenshire, including Fettercairn and the Glenmuick, Glen Tanar, Invercauld and Ballogie estates. Sunset Song is certainly a masterpiece of Scottish/ British literature and was voted Scotland's favourite book.

Scots Quair is actually three books, Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite, that tell the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman in the North East of Scotland, moving from the hard, rural life of her adolescence to adulthood and marriage. A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

Tommy's Honour 2016 ‧ Sport/Romance is based on the powerfully moving true story (and novel of the same name by Kevin Cook) of the challenging relationship between “Old” Tom and “Young” Tommy Morris, the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf.

Tommy's Honour 2016

Peter Mullan stared as Tom with Jack Lowden playing his son. The film was filmed in the Edinburgh city region including Peebles and Musselburgh golf course.

He also played Yaxley in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, parts 1 and 2. In TV, he’s played characters in ‘Westworld’, ‘Top Of The Lake’ and Netflix’s ‘Ozark’ as Jacob Snell. [Netflix]

In 2020 He was great in #Ozark portraying local crime lord Jacob Snell, The crime boss of Osage Beach until he died in season two of the Netflix hit.

Ozark 2017 ‧ Drama ‧ 4 seasons

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV Series 2022– ) - Peter Mullan played Durin III king of the dwarves and builder of the great halls of Moria.

Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. In the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth.

On the big and small screen, from sci-fi to action and comedy, there are plenty of Scots actors who have made a huge impact on the world of acting. Just take a look at the right place where you will find them in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Posted 5th April 2024

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62nd Cannes Film Festival Hat

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Another American filmmaker who stands a great chance at cracking this line-up is Brady Corbet. We’ll he was feted with his debut feature and returned as a jury person on the Lido, his third feature, The Brutalist would make for great comp choice. Shot last Spring in Hungary and featuring the likes of Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde, Isaach De Bankolé, Raffey Cassidy and good luck charm Stacy Martin, this chronicles three decades in the life of László Tóth (Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust. After the end of World War II, he emigrated to the United States with his wife, Erzsébet, to experience the “American dream”. László initially endures poverty and indignity, but he soon lands a contract with a mysterious and wealthy client Harrison Lee Van Buren that will change the course of his life. This was shot on film and sees Corbet re-team with Lol Crawley for a third time out….

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Feted on the Lido and well up into Oscar season with Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos lite the Croisette on fire when he won the Un Certain Regard section with Dogtooth in 2009 and in his two time sin competition her won the Jury Prize for The Lobster (2015) and Best Screenplay for The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). The Searchlight folks have dated Kind of Kindness for a June 21st release so it’s almost unfathomable that this won’t receive a prestigious showcase. Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable with segments following a man without choice who tries to take control of his life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems to be a different person; and a woman who is determined to find a specific someone destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. This stars muse Emma Stone along with Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer….

hmm i thought it’d go to Venice tbh. the Cannes lineup will be out next week so we’ll find out soon enough

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Penélope Cruz

Actrice espagnole, lauréate de l'Oscar 2009 de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle dans Vicky Cristina Barcelona ; connu principalement des films de Pedro Almodovar.

Elle est née le 28 avril 1974 à Madrid dans la famille d'un petit commerçant et d'un coiffeur. Depuis son enfance, elle aimait la danse et le jazz, pendant neuf ans, elle a étudié le ballet classique au Conservatoire national espagnol. Pendant quatre ans, elle étudie l'art théâtral à l'école de Christina Rota (New York). À l'âge de 15 ans, elle a commencé à jouer dans des émissions de télévision et des vidéoclips, et en 1991, elle a fait ses débuts en tant qu'actrice dans le film "The Greek Labyrinth".

En 1992, le film "Era of Beauty" avec la participation de Cruz est sorti, récompensé par des prix nationaux et nommé meilleur film étranger par l'American Film Academy. Mais la popularité n'est venue à l'actrice qu'en 1997, après les films "Living Flesh" et "Open Your Eyes".

En 1999, le Festival de Cannes s'est ouvert avec le film "All About My Mother" avec Cruz, après quoi elle a commencé à jouer avec des acteurs célèbres tels que Matt Damon ("Unbroken Hearts"), Johnny Depp ("Cocaine"), Nicolas Cage ("Captain Corelli's Choice"), Salma Hayek ("Bandits"), Tom Cruise ("Vanilla Sky") et d'autres.

En 2007, elle a commencé à sortir avec l'acteur Javier Bardem. Début juillet 2010, elle l'épouse lors d'une cérémonie privée aux Bahamas. Le 22 janvier 2011, à Los Angeles, Cruz a donné naissance à un fils, Léo Encinas, et le 22 juillet 2013, à Madrid, à une fille, Luna Encinas.