Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes” received finest movie on the seventeenth version of Leffest Lisboa Film Festival, which introduced awards Saturday evening.
Marking Erice’s first function movie since his 1992 docudrama “The Quince Tree Sun” and garnering almost common optimistic critiques – Variety called it “an aching ode to film, time and memory” – following its world premiere at Cannes, “Close Your Eyes” has screened at Toronto, Busan, BFI London and New York.
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During Leffest, in a session moderated by Paulo Branco, 83-year old Erice took half in a dialog with preeminent 64-year old Portuguese helmer, Pedro Costa, whose quick “The Daughters of Fire,” was a Cannes Special Screening and likewise had its Portuguese premiere on the fest.
Erice remarked in the course of the occasion, one fest spotlight, that each he and Costa are working within the shadow of two nice filmmakers – “Don Luis Buñuel” and “Don Manoel de Oliveira” – and he added that whereas he feels that Costa has managed to “find his place and his people, among the humiliated and the offended, projecting the idea of community,” he, against this, has needed to confront a “certain solitude, a certain inner exile.”
Erice beforehand labored with Pedro Costa, on the omnibus movie “Historic Centre,” shot in Portugal throughout 2012 Guimarães European Capital of Culture, that additionally concerned Manoel de Oliveira and Aki Kaurismaki.
Leffest is directed by Portuguese producer Paulo Branco. This 12 months’s jury was presided by director Elia Suleiman, accompanied by Fanny Ardant, Nitin Sawhney, Rachel Kushner, Georgi Gospodinov, Khalik Allah, and Adriana Molder.
The fest’s João Bénard da Costa Jury Grand Prize was awarded to “The Delinquents” by Rodrigo Moreno, “a deliciously bizarre existential heist movie,” said Variety.
The Jury Prize went to “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” by Radu Jude, “a brilliantly bizarre work-culture satire,” according to Variety.
Cédric Kahn’s “The Goldman Case” acquired a particular point out from the Jury – and actor Bianca Delbravo received a Jury Special Award for her efficiency in Mika Gustafson’s “Paradise is Burning”
In the Discoveries competitors, the TAP Revelation Award ex-aequo was awarded to “Pet Shop Days” by Olmo Schnabel and “Grandmother’s Footsteps” by Lola Peploe. The jury was comprised by Leonor Silveira, Selma Uamusse and Pedro Amaral.
The 17th version of the LEFFEST Lisboa Film Festival ran Nov. 10-19 in Lisbon.
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