JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
FRIDAY 21ST FEBRUARY<br />
THE GOLDEN DREAM<br />
LA JAULA DE ORO<br />
Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez was a<br />
camera assistant on Ken Loach’s Carla’s Song,<br />
Land and Freedom and Bread and Roses, and there<br />
is something very Loachian in this tough, absorbing,<br />
suspenseful drama about three Guatemalan kids<br />
trying illegally to cross the Mexican border into<br />
the US.<br />
‘demonstrates a great sense of humanity’<br />
Screen International<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.30pm / 102 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Diego Quemada-Diez 2013 Mexico/Spain<br />
Cast: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez<br />
Winner, Best International Film & Audience Award,<br />
Mar del Plata Film Festival<br />
Winner, Golden Alexander, Best Director & Audience Award,<br />
Thessaloniki International Film Festival<br />
Quemada-Diez has found three excellent nonprofessional<br />
actors for his lead roles. Brandon López<br />
and Karen Martínez play Juan and Sara, two kids<br />
who are desperate to get out of Guatemala, along<br />
with a young Indian boy they meet, Chauk (Rodolfo<br />
Domínguez). With some US dollar bills sewn secretly<br />
into their jeans, they plan on hopping boxcars and<br />
riding the rails up through Mexico and then over the<br />
border into California, this last part requiring them<br />
to work their passage by volunteering as drug mules<br />
for the gangs running heroin through secret crossing<br />
points. At every stage, these vulnerable teenagers<br />
face danger and almost certain death from predatory<br />
criminals to whom their young lives are worth less<br />
than zero. It is a very substantial movie, with great<br />
compassion and urgency.<br />
Peter Bradshaw<br />
The Guardian<br />
A STREET IN PALERMO<br />
VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA<br />
Don’t mess with Sicilian women. That’s perhaps a<br />
reductive summary of the cinematic debut of Italian<br />
theatre director Emma Dante, which revolves entirely<br />
around a stand-off between two cars in a narrow lane<br />
in the jerry-built outskirts of Palermo.<br />
Two women, Rosa (Emma Dante) and Clara (Alba<br />
Rohrwacher), bicker as they drive through Palermo<br />
backstreets; we soon realise they are lovers on the<br />
verge of a break-up. A proletarian family return from<br />
a fractious day at the beach, driven by Samira, the<br />
resented mother-in-law of a sweaty, crass, bolshy<br />
family patriarch. Finally, the two cars grind to a halt<br />
facing each other, with neither driver prepared to<br />
reverse. It’s a stand-off that begins in the realm of<br />
the possible but soon drifts into more dreamlike,<br />
allegorical territory.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.30pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Emma Dante 2013 Italy/Switzerland/France<br />
Writers: Emma Dante, Giorgio Vasta<br />
Cast: Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta<br />
Winner, Best Actress, Venice Film Festival<br />
In Italy, the expression ‘Far West’ is used to mean a<br />
place or situation where no rules apply, and A Street<br />
in Palermo depicts a Sicilian Far West which is also<br />
a Far West of the soul: a place forsaken by God and<br />
man, where obstinacy is the only virtue left.<br />
Lee Marshall<br />
Screen International<br />
With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture Dublin<br />
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