MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 10-09-24 - 10/09/2024
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00:00The Golden Lion for Best Film goes to The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar.
00:30The winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film goes to a Cartier special edition watch for the 81st International Film Festival.
00:42Welcome to Cinema Donc.
00:52In this cultural chronicle is the sacred of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
00:57During the 81st edition of the Mostra de Venice, born in Spain in black and white of the dictatorship,
01:03Pedro Almodóvar has been told in high color films the liberation of a society and has imposed himself as the incarnation of Spanish cinema.
01:11Paradoxically, it is with his first feature film in English, The Room Next Door, that he wins for the first time in a major festival,
01:20even if he had received a Golden Lion of Honor in 2019.
01:24I invite you to listen to Pedro Almodóvar.
01:27I would like to share this prize with my whole team, but especially with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton,
01:34for their talent, their confidence and their generosity to me.
01:39This prize belongs to them.
01:41The film is about two women and these two women are Julianne and Tilda.
01:46As a director, one of the privileges is that we are the first witnesses when a miracle happens in front of the camera.
01:54And Tilda and Julianne have both done miracles during these many days of shooting.
02:01I will never have enough words to thank them.
02:05Julianne, Tilda, this distinction is for you.
02:13Long film in twilight tone, The Room Next Door tells the story of Ingrid Julianne Moore,
02:19novelist anxious about the end of existence, and Martha Tilda Swinton,
02:24her friend of youth, former war reporter used to challenge death,
02:29living alone in her beautiful apartment in New York, and who, affected by cancer, decides to end her life.
02:35This time in The Room Next Door, not Penelope Cruz, the muse of Almodóvar with hot accents and Spanish decor.
02:43The story begins in New York and continues in an American country house to address the sometimes icy theme of euthanasia.
02:51Believe it, the 17 minutes of standing ovation that followed the screening of the film,
02:56if Pedro Almodóvar seems far from his habits, success always seems to be around the corner.
03:02I suggest you listen to Tilda Swinton.
03:08Personally, I am not and I have never been afraid of death.
03:13I know that we are simply stopping.
03:16I think that the journey to the acceptance of death can be long for some,
03:21for some reasons and because of some experiences of my life.
03:25It happened quite early, but I know it happens.
03:28I feel it coming. I see it coming.
03:31And I support my friends during their transition, so to speak,
03:36but we have talked a lot about life and not at all about death.
03:41And one of the important things is that this film portrays someone who has made her choice
03:47and who has decided to take her life and her death into her hands and do whatever she wants.
03:54And make it how she wants it to be.
03:57At 74 years old, Pedro Almodóvar, author of masterpieces such as Tout sur ma mère and Parle avec elle,
04:04the Oscar winner, had never been awarded the supreme prize at the festival.
04:08And if finally the jury was chaired by Isabelle Huppert, another great face of European author cinema,
04:14who offers this distinction to L'Espagnol, filmmaker of women and feelings par excellence.
04:19It's my first film in English, but the spirit is Spanish, he commented.
04:23While his name will have long been synonymous with transgression,
04:27humor, daring, melodrama, flamboyance and heroine.
04:31Out of the ordinary, his works are more and more tormented by the physical decline and the fear of death.
04:37Let's listen to Pedro Almodóvar.
04:43What you should know is that Venice, the Mostra de Venice,
04:47and this festival is the first festival I participated in at the very beginning of my career,
04:53and it was in 1983.
04:55And my feature film was titled Dans les ténèbres, in Spanish, Entre tinieblas.
05:02And thanks to this first participation in 1983, I had just existed on the international level.
05:10That's why I feel very connected to this festival.
05:14I came back here many times, and for me, it's very gratifying.
05:29And music to finish, and the new clip by the Senegalese singer Absinthe,
05:34in collaboration with Amira Abed, entitled Mi Alfini Ma.
05:40This love song, interpreted in Poulard, is distinguished by its moving lyrics,
05:45its captivating melody and its dynamic rhythms, a real musical success,
05:49which will not fail to seduce amateurs of beautiful melodies.
05:53Of course, I suggest you listen to this excerpt.
06:10Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.
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