The three films that dominate the conversation at the festival – TÁR, Women Talking and Bardo – show us that cancellation culture will be a big theme this Oscar season.
When the Oscar buzz is brought up at the fall festivals, we know not only which films will be cut, but also the themes they produce. This time last year, ‘Dog Power’ and ‘Belfast’ launched a dueling tale of troubled youth. Be prepared for it this year. Cancellation culture is coming to Oscar season.
The undisputed winner of the Venice-Telluride Dash is ‘TÁR’, who arrived in the Rocky Mountains from Lido on a wave of enthusiastic acclaim. For Telluride audiences, Todfield’s first film in 15 years is a riveting cinematic journey into the downfall of a brilliant but troubled conductor whose career plummets after a string of scandals. Confirmed. Centered on Cate Blanchett’s impassioned performance as acclaimed composer Lydia Tarr, the film spans nearly three hours and explores personal and professional behavior, the separation between art and artist, and her social snuff. I’m going to repeat.
Field directs his immersive script as a tense psychological thriller and perceptive character study (think “Black Swan” by Frederick Wiseman), never shying away from the most sensitive issues. A Telluride Award winner and soon-to-be Best Actress frontrunner, Blanchett gave her BIPOC students at Juilliard an extensive speech in which her character confronts Gustav about her displeasure with Mahler’s private life. to hold.
No one says “cancel culture,” but Field has built an angry response to a polarizing climate that can ruin a career overnight. The challenge of discussing the film’s most powerful themes was still too raw for them. It seems that the impetus for Showing off her own elegant performance as the earnest wife of her protagonist, Nina Hoss might have a chance to sneak into her busy Best Supporting Actress field.
That field could be crowded with the cast of another movie, Women Talking, brought into the timely debate. Writer-director Sarah Polley, who also received tributes at the festival, adapted a novel by Miriam Tows in which a group of Mennonite women (although their religion was not specified) gathered and all took drugs. Discuss response after being raped. men in their community. (Horrible, and also true.)
Paulie has been candid about her own experiences with abuse and trauma. She recently wrote a book of essays, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory. This included her confrontation with director Terry Gilliam, who had her on the set of “Baron Her Adventures in Munchhausen”. Her “Women Talking” script delves further into the issue of forgiveness and varying degrees of transgression. These nuanced arguments that put Paulie at the top of the Best Adapted Screenplay race are sure to spark a lot of conversation about how movies aim to address our polarizing times.
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“I have a lot of very mixed emotions on both sides of that,” Pauley told IndieWire in an interview after her tribute. I think.”
The men in her films are irredeemable, but she doesn’t believe in extreme cancellation culture. “I think it’s really easy to rage about cancellation culture without realizing that some people are still working and doing well and just had a bad moment on Twitter,” she said. “There’s this thing called accountability. There’s fruitful conversations about what it means when people make mistakes. I’d love to see more complex conversations about that.”
She also wasn’t keen on rejecting canceled artists’ work. “I don’t know if they’re willing to throw away the only good thing they gave the world. Because this is what we got from them. They sure do a lot of bad things.” and left the world, so let’s take the good.
and “Baldo, a Handful”, Alejandro G. Inarritu’s first film since “The Revenant,” which seemed to overcome mixed reactions in Venice after many of Telluride’s prominent guests expressed their appreciation. There is a “true false chronicle”. The filmmaker’s personal view of the acclaimed documentary’s plight upon his return to his native Mexico has led to some debate as to whether he deserves a privileged position. It contains. In one of the film’s many gripping sequences that veer into dreamlike absurdity, he explores the paradox of living a “boogie” lifestyle while trying to chronicle the experience of the lower classes in a live TV show. facing about
That scene, and others, have been registered as a response to the idea that public figures are easily summoned these days. “It’s become a very difficult situation for all filmmakers to navigate the vulnerable space where they can be lynched by anyone at any time without any real basis,” Iñárritu told IndieWire. is likely to be nominated for Best International Feature if Mexico chooses ‘Baldo’, but with him campaigning in other major categories, such dangerous questions are coming up again. may come.
These conversations tend to boggle talent in interviews and steer them toward diplomatic answers, but given the nature of Oscar season and the film itself, this Oscar season theme makes it hard to play the avoidance game. .
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