Family ties and a future to be discovered - Envol - Marina's review
(Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival)
The Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello is a real source of pride as regards contemporary Italian cinema. After the successes of Lost and beautiful (2015) e Martin Eden (2019) here he arrives at the Croisette with his latest effort: Flight, opening film of the Fortnight of the 75Th Cannes Film Festival.
The story staged, therefore, is that of the young Juliette (personified by Juliette Jouan), which, orphaned of a swaddled mother, he lives in a small town in the north of France with his father Raphaël (Raphael Thiery), a taciturn man, as well as an extraordinarily talented carpenter, veteran from the First World War. Still a child, Juliette meets a sorceress in the woods who predicts that one day some "scarlet sails" will arrive in her village to take her away.. This bizarre prophecy will never come true?
Flight is the story of a tender relationship between father and daughter, but also the portrait of ancient popular beliefs, which in turn opens an important discourse on diversity and marginalization. Juliette, as a child, she is bullied by her peers because of a gesture made by her father years ago in order to take revenge on a man who, in its time, he raped his wife. When the years go by, however, the town seems to have forgotten what happened and Juliette, now a young woman who makes toys for a living, demonstrates an extraordinary talent for music. His world seems almost a reality unto itself. A reality that never seems to be scratched by what happens outside and that, despite adversity, succeeds (quasi) always to maintain one's own balance.
Pietro Marcello is attentive to every little detail, manages to create strongly evocative atmospheres, where the calm of a sunny day in early summer can only be scratched by flames that illuminate a seemingly peaceful night. Saturated colors and a deliberately rough photograph, rough, able to give three-dimensionality to everything filmed do the rest. Tragedies and moments of happy meditation, reality, but also a veil of magic make the present Flight a real gem of this 75° edition of the Cannes Film Festival and once again confirm the extraordinary talent of Pietro Marcello. Once again, the director and documentary maker from Naples hit the mark perfectly.
marina fears