Laurent Cantet, who won the Palm d’Or at Cannes for one of his lesser films The Class (2008), is one of the best political filmmakers in the world today although his political cinema is of a different kind than that of past masters like Francesco Rosi, Gilo Pontecorvo and Constantin Costa-Gavras. Distinguishing Cantet from the others is his disinclination to ‘probe’ underneath the surface and provide an overriding analysis. His films do not try to see the whole picture – examine an event from different viewpoints – as Costa-Gavras does in Z (1969) – but tries to stick to one viewpoint. If his films lack an analytical side, their ambiguity perhaps also brings them closer to art.
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
- 2/10/2011
- by MK Raghvendra
- DearCinema.com
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