The first full-length John Salaviza, Mountain , shown at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, earned critical newspaper Libération “the image of the day “. In an article entitled so, Clement Ghys begins by saying that Mountain has “the most beautiful plan” had been able to see from the beginning of the show. It refers to the sequence of a minute in boîte where David, the 14 year old, dancing eyes closed, oblivious to what’s around you.
“Less than a narrative, Mountain is an abstraction, as if the camera assume the act of a presence,” writes Ghys. He adds, “Salaviza movie this siege, build their plans obstructing them successively adding several elements that come disturbing: cabinets, windows, street furniture, shadows … all aid claustrophobia that is imposed on the young.”
The critic of the French daily draws a parallel between the first feature film by Portuguese director and one of the first François Truffaut film, The Four Hundred Blows (1959). And he adds that the protagonist of Mountain has “the savagery of a hero of Pasolini”, applying the David destination in the context of a time of “economic and moral crisis” that leaves layers of society “to abandonment “.
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