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segunda-feira, 28 de maio de 2012

Palma a un Haneke angustioso y tierno

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Haneke levanta su Palma de Oro entre la pareja protagonista de 'Amor'. / E. GAILLARD (REUTERS)
 
Al recibir su segunda Palma de Oro en el Festival de Cannes, Michael Haneke, ese hombre espigado y aparentemente glacial cuyo potente y tortuoso cerebro da terror, se la ha dedicado a su rubia esposa asegurando que lleva soportándole 30 años y recordando la mutua promesa que ambos se hicieron si las circunstancias vitales lo imponen. Y he sentido un escalofrío al asociar esa declaración con lo que ocurre en su película Amor, que ha logrado un reconocimiento bastante incontestable, ante el que nadie con criterio y sensatez se puede escandalizar.
Siempre esperas territorios cenagosos y el protagonismo de psicopatías y del mal en el cine de este director. Por ello, sorprende inicialmente que haya titulado Amor a su última película. Y no lo hace con desdén o con sarcasmo. Pero también sabes que no te hablará de la plenitud y la alegría del amor, sino que forzosamente aparecerá el dolor y las zonas sombrías. Son un matrimonio anciano que además de seguir queriéndose se llevan bastante bien con la vida, disfrutan de la música, de la cotidianidad, de las pequeñas cosas. Hasta que aparece la maldita enfermedad minando hasta extremos degradantes el cerebro y el cuerpo de ella. Y ocurre esa putada tan habitual de que la muerte no sea mutua y rápida en la gente que se ama, que uno tenga que asistir con impotencia y horror a la devastación del otro.
Todo ello ocurre en el espacio claustrofóbico de una casa, describiendo la tragedia de estos dos seres irremediablemente desvalidos, aunque también aparezcan algunos personajes episódicos, como el de una hija cuya relación con el marido, a diferencia de la de sus padres, está naufragando.
Haneke jamás ha escatimado en su cine el realismo aplicado al sufrimiento extremo y ha ofrecido una dureza y una frialdad expositiva que pueden hacer daño al espectador observando la violencia y lo enfermizo. Pero aquí, por primera vez, aunque esté hablando de la destrucción imparable y letal, se permite cierta ternura retratando la llegada de la oscuridad. Y dispone de los excelentes Jean-Louis Trintignant y Emmanuelle Riva, dos iconos del cine francés, para transmitir las sensaciones físicas y mentales que recorren a estos personajes en situación trágica. Te hacen compartir su angustia y su pavor. Es una película que te deja hecho polvo. Y hay que poseer talento para ello. Y respiro aliviado cuando dejo atrás esa atmósfera lúgubre, esa historia que solo puede ir a peor. Pero han pasado varios días y sus imágenes permanecen en la retina, señal inequívoca de su fuerza, de que te ha golpeado y removido.
"Amor es una película que te deja hecho polvo. Y hay que poseer talento para ello"
El Gran Premio del Jurado, concedido a Reality, tampoco es injusto, aunque la acogida que le dieron los medios de comunicación fuera muy tibia. Hay bastantes elementos de la gran comedia italiana de antes en el patético retrato que hace Garrone de un pescadero napolitano que acaba enloqueciendo y perdiéndolo todo por su obsesión de que le seleccionen para concursar en Gran Hermano. Aunque lo que cuenta es muy triste y desgarrado, es una de las escasísimas películas que en algunos momentos te hacen sonreír o reír en una sección oficial con sobredosis de dramas espesos y seriedad vocacional o forzada.
Algo que también consigue Ken Loach en la vivaz, humanista y emotiva The angels’ share, un relato sobre perdedores que buscan una salida y la encuentran, en la que Loach vuelca comprensión y cariño hacia sus personajes y lo contagia al espectador que no sienta aversión profesional hacia los finales felices. Y se agradece mucho la frescura y el humor en medio de tanta pretensión de arte atormentado.
La película danesa The hunt es, junto a la estadounidense Mud, que no ha conseguido ningún premio, las dos que más me han gustado en la sección oficial. The hunt ha logrado al menos el muy justo premio de interpretación para su protagonista Mads Mikkelsen, que otorga estupor, acorralamiento, desesperación y dignidad a un hombre que ve cómo se derrumba todo su mundo por la mentira de una niña, hija de su amigo íntimo, acusándole de pederastia.
El director rumano Cristian Mungiu nos desasosegó perdurablemente a casi todo el público de Cannes cuando exhibió hace cinco años Cuatro meses, tres semanas, dos días, aquella asfixiante historia sobre una estudiante que intenta abortar clandestinamente ayudada por una amiga. Le concedieron la Palma de Oro. El jurado ha vuelto a reconocer su fuerza expresiva premiando el guion y a las dos actrices que protagonizan Beyond the hills, un relato que a mí me ha resultado alargado y plomizo sobre una mujer desequilibrada que recurre a su amiga de la infancia buscando refugio. Esta pertenece a una comunidad religiosa ferozmente ortodoxa que vive en el campo y empeñada en sacarle el diablo del cuerpo a la visitante con exorcismos tan bestias como vanos.
Acabo harto de la morosidad, los espasmos y las reiteraciones con las que está descrito el inacabable horror. Si el palmarés me parece lógico en varios casos y discutible en otros, encuentro un disparate lamentable el galardón como mejor director al mexicano Carlos Reygadas. Nada de lo que describe en Post tenebras lux tiene sentido pero el lenguaje para hacerlo está a la misma altura.
También había rumores, debido al entusiasmo marciano de la crítica francesa hacia ella, de que iban a premiar a la infame tontería Holy Motors, dirigida por Leos Carax, alguien que pretende ser fiel a sus longevos años a la sofisticada etiqueta de enfant terrible. Al menos, el jurado ha mantenido la lucidez ante la presión que recibían para reconocer a Carax. Pero si su idea de un director modélico se concreta en Carlos Reygadas y a este le salen demasiados imitadores, sería un notable motivo de preocupación. Por el bien del cine. Ha sido un Cannes decepcionante, la edición más floja que recuerdo desde hace bastantes años. Y te planteas con inevitable mosqueo que si los que seleccionan lo mejor de la cosecha anual te han ofrecido este material tan leve, lo que queda para el resto de los festivales puede provocar exclusivamente miedo.

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/05/28/actualidad/1338159505_431249.html

sábado, 26 de maio de 2012

óleo sobre tela e um belo poema


Marcantonio, óleo sobre tela, 2003. (Clique para ampliar)


MISSIVA


Juntei quinhentas palavras,
Granítico vocabulário
Para erguer rígida muralha
Entre nós.
Fracasso de engenharia,
Este discurso de alvenaria
Não resiste ao sopro quente
Da tua voz.


Marcantonio
http://diarioextrovertido.blogspot.com/





I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Original Stereo) - Tony Bennett

A Ponte Golden Gate 75 anos







A Golden Gate Bridge (em português: Ponte do Portão de Ouro) é a ponte localizada no estado da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, que liga a cidade de São Francisco a Sausalito, na região metropolitana de São Francisco, sobre o estreito de Golden Gate. A ponte é o principal cartão postal da cidade, uma das mais conhecidas construções dos Estados Unidos, e é considerada uma das Sete maravilhas do Mundo Moderno pela Sociedade Americana de Engenheiros Civis.




Golden Gate Bridge 75

The Golden Gate: A city’s muse

 
So Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of our beloved Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is a city that has become obsessed with this grand structure, which towers above us so solidly it’s hard to even picture the time before its reign. Attempting to replicate its magical powers, artists marvel at its color and shape. Poets have blessed it with countless lines of prose. Musicians have even even reaped its steel groans for symphonic arrangements.
If you’ve never thought of yourself as a bridgeophile, this is the week to become one. Everyone is welcome to join the appreciation — and if you’re not sure where to begin, just follow the footsteps of some of its local admirers.
Aside from a myriad of parties honoring the bridge this weekend here are four things your can do today to help you get your bridge on.
1. Watch this video. The late Chronicle columnist Herb Caen used his gift for language to make event the most cynical appreciate the bridge’s wonder.

When fog pours around the bridge is there anything more beautiful?

"At last the mighty task is done;
Resplendent in the western sun
The Bridge looms mountain high;
Its titan piers grip ocean floor,
Its great steel arms link shore with shore,
Its towers pierce the sky."

Joseph Strauss

Golden Gate Bridge - monument, work of art, star

Electrician Jamie Briggs tends to maintenance duties on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge on May 8, 2012 in Marin, Calf.

What is it about the Golden Gate Bridge, anyway? It's not the longest suspension bridge in the world anymore, or the tallest. It never was the busiest.
But it's a star, the way Bacall and Monroe were stars. The way Scarlett Johansson is a star today, and that lovely woman you met at a party isn't; the way Angela Lansbury is a star and your Aunt Lizzie is just a really nice 75-year-old lady.
The Golden Gate Bridge has everything: good looks, a gorgeous setting, a distinct color, a famous city on one side and steep, rolling hills on the other. It has style and sweeping curves. It appears and disappears in the fog, it has myths and legends and, sometimes, a fatal attraction.
"A necklace of surprising beauty," Chronicle reporter Willis O'Brien called it on the day it opened 75 years ago this month. "A masterpiece," John van der Zee called it in "The Gate," a book that appeared on the bridge's 50th birthday in 1987. "I believe it is America's Parthenon," he said more recently.
"It was pretty spectacular," said Martha Furman, who was 10 years old when she walked across it on opening day, May 27, 1937, and has remembered that walk ever since. She lives in Southern California now but is thinking about the bridge's 75th anniversary. "I might come up and walk across again," she said.
Robert David has worked for the Golden Gate Bridge district for 39 years. He is both a photographer and an architect, and has been everywhere on the bridge - from top to bottom.
The secret of what makes the Golden Gate special, he thinks, is all in the proportions of the bridge and the geometry that holds it up. Its design, he says, draws the eye.
One way to see the bridge's unique character is to compare it with its slightly older neighbor, the Bay Bridge. The Golden Gate's towers are much higher - 746 feet, compared with 526 feet for the Bay Bridge. Its roadway is placed at one-third of the height of the towers; on the Bay Bridge, the road cuts the towers in half.
The result, wrote Donald MacDonald, an architect who worked on both bridges, is "an aesthetically pleasing imbalance and sense of airiness - which the Bay Bridge ... lacked."
David goes further. Compared with the Golden Gate, he says, the Bay Bridge looks like a man wearing his pants too high.
The Golden Gate's towers also are stepped - they grow more slender as they grow taller, making them appear even higher than they really are.
Then there is the color.
Most bridges are painted a workmanlike green, silver or gray. The Golden Gate is vivid International Orange, a version of the original red lead primer applied to the steel when it first arrived from Pennsylvania mills. Consulting architect Irving Morrow, who hiked all over the Marin hills as a boy, wanted a bridge painted to fit the site where hills, water and fog mixed. He wanted "a red, earthy color ... admirable for enhancing the scale."
All of this, MacDonald says, "made the bridge a piece of art. There is nothing like it in the world."
"The bridge is like San Francisco," said Catherine Powell of the Labor Archives at San Francisco State University. "There is a story involved in it."
To begin, there is the strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Just over a mile wide at its narrowest point and more than 300 feet deep, the strait is formidable in itself. The Spanish called it La Boca de Puerto de San Francisco, but when the Americans came in 1846, it got a new name. "I named it Chrysopolae, or Golden Gate," wrote John C. Fremont, adventurer and U.S. Army officer, "for the same reason that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn."
The Golden Horn, an inlet at what is now Istanbul, was the crossroads of the Old World, where East met West. Golden Gate was the perfect name.

An impossible project

It was impossible to build a bridge across the Golden Gate with the technology of the 19th century. But in the 20th century, the American century, bridging the Golden Gate seemed possible.

Joseph Baermann Strauss, a Chicago bridge builder, had constructed the Fourth Street drawbridge across Channel Creek in San Francisco in 1916; it still stands not far from AT&T Park. By the 1920s, Strauss had begun thinking about a bridge across the Gate.
His first design, in 1921, was for a combination cantilever and suspension bridge with towers nearly 800 feet high. It was amazingly ugly, but it was an idea, and Strauss was convinced it could be built.
In "The Gate," van der Zee points out that Strauss was not an engineer. "He was the drawbridge king," van der Zee said recently, "but not an engineer of any kind."
He was, however, a visionary, a promoter, an organizer and a master salesman. Historian Kevin Starr, in his 2010 book "Golden Gate," compares Strauss to P.T. Barnum and the Wizard of Oz.
Strauss made his first talk promoting a Golden Gate bridge at a Sausalito City Council meeting in 1922. Mayor James Madden recalled the event years later. At first it was a tough sell. Strauss, Mayor Madden would say, was "the world's worst speaker."

But Strauss got better and better, and his idea caught on. The 1920s were the flowering of the age of the automobile, and by the end of the decade thousands of cars overwhelmed the Marin ferry systems.
There was plenty of opposition to the bridge: particularly from the Southern Pacific Co., which had a transportation monopoly in the North Bay; from old-line conservatives; even from the Sierra Club, which worried that a bridge would destroy the beauty of the Golden Gate.
But the idea had power behind it. Bridge advocates circulated new drawings. The new design looked very much like the bridge we see now. It was stunning, and the idea of such a bridge fired the imagination. In 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression, people in the new six-county Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District voted by a 3-to-1 margin for a $35 million bond issue, a major sum at the time.

An engineering dream team

Strauss assembled a matchless team to design and build the bridge: consulting engineers Charles Ellis, a professor at the University of Illinois; Leon Moisseiff, a designer and theoretician; and Othmar Ammann, a Swiss-born structural engineer who had built the George Washington Bridge in New York. There was also Charles Derleth, dean of the college of engineering at UC Berkeley; Andrew Lawson, a geologist and seismic expert; and two architects: John Elberson and Irving Morrow.
Strauss held the title of chief engineer, but others were responsible for the design. Ellis, in particular, did all the mathematical calculations that made the bridge possible. "The look, the heart of the bridge is his design," van der Zee said. "It all comes from him."
But Strauss would fire Ellis before his work on the bridge was complete. So Strauss got the lion's share of the credit and a statue at the San Francisco end. Ellis' name does not appear on the bridge. Clifford Paine took over as his No. 2 man.
Construction began in January 1933 and the bridge opened in May 1937, four years and four months later. There were 1,200,000 rivets, 80,000 miles of spliced wire, 254 steel suspender ropes connecting the cables with the deck, and a single, slightly arching span - 4,200 feet between the towers.
It was dangerous and exacting work - 11 men were killed building the Golden Gate Bridge, 10 in a single accident in February 1937.
The men who built it knew it best: "The bridge was outstanding and far above anything else," said Charles Kring, superintendent of cable spinning. "Everybody who worked on that bridge thought it was special," said Evan "Slim" Lambert. "I thought it was an honor to be able to work on something like that," said John Urban, an ironworker, " 'cause it's gonna be there a long time."
The bridge opened May 27, 1937, and 200,000 walked across. "The old town went nuts ..." Willis O'Brien wrote in The Chronicle. "It stood on its head. It walked on its hands. It threw its hat in the air."
Strauss offered a poem: "At last, the mighty task is done," it began.
Not long afterward, the Golden Gate Bridge became a symbol - and not always a symbol of success. The first known suicide came in August 1937, not three months after the bridge opened. At least 1,500 others have followed.
It also became the symbol of San Francisco, the way the old Ferry Building had been before it. Then a symbol of the West. And then of the country itself, almost like the Statue of Liberty.
During World War II, more than 1.5 million men and women sailed beneath the Golden Gate on warships and troopships. More soldiers, sailors and Marines followed in the Korean War, the Cold War and Vietnam. For many service members , the Golden Gate Bridge was the last sight of home. Some never saw it again.
Dick Fontaine was a soldier, returning on a troopship after a long voyage from Korea. It was just at twilight and as the ship passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, the soldiers began to cheer, from the bow of the ship to the stern. They threw their caps in the water, and Fontaine remembers seeing hundreds of hats, floating in the ship's wake.
Why did they do that? It was simple, he said.
"When that ship went under the bridge, the long, lousy trip was over, and Korea was over, the Army was over, all that stuff was over. We were home."

Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. His column, Native Son, appears Sundays. cnolte@sfchronicle.com
This article appeared on page E - 21 of the San Francisco Chronicle


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/19/BAPT1OBTTQ.DTL&ao=2#ixzz1vzF5C1yr

Golden Gate Bridge anniversary celebration begins


 
Joining in the festivities for the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th anniversary are Mayor Ed Lee (left), Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Tammy Nelson of "Beach Blanket Babylon," bridge district President Janet Reilly, and committee members Lisa and Douglas Goldman.

Everyone likes to make a good impression on her birthday, and the Golden Gate Bridge is no different.
The orange span was on glorious display Friday morning as the sun shone down on it and hundreds of people - many draped in the color du jour - gathered to exalt the bridge on its 75th birthday. The ceremony kicked off a weekend of celebrations that will culminate in a festival and fireworks display Sunday night.
In addition to professing their love and awe for the iconic bridge, many of the dignitaries who addressed the crowd on Friday noted the incredible foresight of those who built and supported the unprecedented public works project - particularly impressive because it happened during the Great Depression.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee declared Friday Golden Gate Bridge Anniversary Day in the city and said the span continues to symbolize the innovation and prosperity that are the hallmarks of the region.
Marvin Scott, a National Parks Service employee, sang an a capella version of "America the Beautiful," and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi drew a parallel between the patriotic song and the span.

'Beyond the years'

"I love that song, especially the second verse - 'O beautiful, for patriot dream/ That sees beyond the years.' That's exactly what the people who envisioned this bridge did. They saw beyond the years," Pelosi said. "I want to celebrate what this bridge has given us, what it means to the city, the state and the nation. ... We are possessive of it in this area, but it is a national treasure that is recognized around the world."
While the visionaries who engineered the bridge have long since died, some of their descendents were on hand Friday. Lorna Strauss Bantz, the great-niece of chief bridge engineer Joseph Strauss, and Lucinda and Chris Cone, the granddaughters of resident engineer Russell G. Cone, said they all grew up in families where the Golden Gate loomed large.
"My grandfather arrived here on Valentine's Day - they all knew how difficult this would be," said Lucinda Cone, who lives in Sacramento. "He loved his men. He was a guy's guy, an Irishman who liked to drink and smoke. ... He used to give out sauerkraut juice to the men who arrived with hangovers. They were all hard-drinking guys."
But Cone was "very safety oriented," she said. He insisted that the bridge workers wear leather hard hats and, with Strauss, required that a safety net be hung under the bridge during construction. That net, of course, didn't save the 10 men who plummeted to their deaths in 1937 when a platform gave way. But it did save 10 other lives, according to the Bridge District.
"My grandfather also survived the bends when he dove down to inspect the foundations," Cone said.
Gov. Jerry Brown, who made a brief appearance, noted a family connection with the bridge. His sister, Cynthia, was 3 years old when the Golden Gate Bridge was completed and walked across with their father the first day it was open. She was in the front row Friday while her brother spoke.

Dash of politics

Unable to leave politics entirely aside, the Democratic governor took the opportunity to press for some modern public works projects, including the state's fledgling high-speed rail system.
"When this bridge was built, there was higher unemployment than there is today, and a lot of people were much poorer than they are today," Brown said. "When they couldn't afford it, they built a great monument of courage, and that's what this is. ... If we are never bold, we will never get things done."
The bridge, Brown said, is a connection not just between Marin and San Francisco counties, but between "our past and future."
"It's Golden Gate Bridge Day not just in San Francisco, but in California," he said, and presented a state proclamation.

Anniversary events

For more information on the Sunday festival and the dozens of other anniversary events, visit goldengatebridge75.org.
Highlights of the weekend's festivities:
-- 75th anniversary tours:
Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Meet at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
More info: www.nps.gov/safr
-- Golden Gate Festival
Sunday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
Fireworks at 9 p.m. (Bridge closed to traffic from 9 to 10 p.m.)
Admission is free.
Main activities at Fort Point, Crissy Field, the Presidio and Marina Green.
Additional anniversary activities at Fort Mason Center, Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco Maritime Historical National Park, Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39.
No event parking. People are advised to take public transit, walk or bike.
Marisa Lagos is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: mlagos@sfchronicle.com
This article appeared on page C - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/25/BAFJ1ONPNU.DTL#ixzz1vzBkYPsv

sexta-feira, 25 de maio de 2012

segredos



 “O meu amor tem um jeito manso que é só seu/ Que rouba os meus sentidos, viola os meus ouvidos/ Com tantos segredos lindos e indecentes/ Depois brinca comigo, ri do meu umbigo/ E me crava os dentes”. Aaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Chico Buarque

Watch What Happens (Reprise 1969) - Frank Sinatra


Let someone start believing in you,
Let him hold out his hand
Let him touch you and watch what happens
One someone who can look in your eyes,
And see into your heart,
Let him find you and watch what happens

Cold, no I won't believe your heart is cold
Maybe just afraid to be broken again

(Full Orch. Bridge)

Let someone with a deep love to give
Give that deep love to you,
And what magic you'll see..

Let someone one with a deep love to give
Give that deep love to you.
And what magic you'll see,
Let someone give his heart,
Someone who cares like me

Someone who cares like me...

agora ela é feliz novamente...

Ela

Agora ela decidiu não se importar com nada, decidiu parar de sofrer, decidiu tomar banho de chuva e não se importar em gripar no dia seguinte. Viver sem medo do futuro, seja ele bom ou ruim, mergulhar de cabeça!
A partir daquele dia, ela não chorou mais de tristeza, não reclamou da falta de tempo, não falou da sua estafa, sorriu com mais facilidade. Suas bebedeiras não são mais em momentos de infelicidade, só bebe pra festejar e quando a tristeza bate, procura algo que lhe dê prazer para fazer e se distrair. Ela anda com um brilho novo nos olhos, ela vê a vida com um olhar otimista, ela acredita numa melhora, afinal, ela está fazendo por onde melhorar. Sim, ela não precisa de ninguém pra melhorar, somente dela mesma.
E não foi que as coisas começaram a melhorar? Ou será que ela começou a ver o excesso de trabalho, estudos e compromissos como algo bom? Um novo emprego em sua área, seu esforço começou a ser reconhecido! Problemas, ela ainda tem um monte, mas quem disse
que são motivo de infelicidade? Ela trabalha, se esforça, corre atrás e consegue passar pelos problemas ilesa.
Ela aprendeu a se assumir, se amar e, a partir daquele dia, ela nunca mais desejou ser outra pessoa. Era completa, estando sozinha ou acompanhada ela se completa por si só. Ela sabe que enquanto ela não se amar por ser exatamente como é, ela nunca saberá amar outra pessoa ou ser amada por outra pessoa. Ela se viu preparada pra viver por si e apenas para si.
Ela finalmente entendeu que ela poderia conversar com amig@s, chorar com a psicologa, tomar remédios ou até mesmo se esconder da depressão dentro de um quarto trancado, se isolando do mundo, mas nada disso a curaria. A cura pra depressão estava dentro dela, estava em suas atitudes e em sua forma de ver e viver sua vida! Agora ela tá curada, agora ela é feliz novamente.