TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: NY CON EL CINE INDEPENDIENTE, ¿O NO?

El Festival de cine de Tribeca fue fundado en 2002 en respuesta a los ataques del 11-S y la consecuente pérdida de vitalidad del barrio de TriBeCa y con el fin de festejar que Nueva York es un importante centro fílmico que contribuye a recuperar la zona de Lower Manhattan. La productora Jane Rosenthal y el actor Robert De Niro son los creadores de este festival.

Robert De Niro y Jane Rosenthal

Películas independientes, cortometrajes y todo tipo de documentales se dan cita en este evento cinematográfico, que cada vez más, está adquiriendo renombre a nivel mundial. No sólo se proyectan películas, sino que cuentan con mesas de debate y salones musicales para artistas consagrados y para los menos conocidos.

'Take this Waltz', '2 Days in Nueva York', 'Chicken With Plumes',  'Lola Versus'

Chicken With Plums (Poulet Aux Prunes), directed and written by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. (France, Germany, Belgium) – U.S. Premiere, Narrative. Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) is the most celebrated violin player in 1950s Tehran, but his heart is broken. His true love is long lost, his marriage is passionless, and now his most precious instrument has met its demise. Convinced life without music is intolerable, he resigns to bed and loses himself in reveries from his youth. The Oscar®-nominated directors of Persepolis make magic again with a stylish fairy tale full of humor, whimsy, and melancholy. In French with subtitles. A Sony Pictures Classics release. 

Lola Versus, directed by Daryl Wein, written by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. Greta Gerwig stars as Lola, a New Yorker who gets dumped by her fiancé mere weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Hamish Linklater) and Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones), Lola embarks on a series of unexpected encounters in an attempt to find her place in the world as a single woman approaching 30. Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) infuses this story of the post-breakup spiral with humor and authenticity. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release.

2 Days in New York, directed and written by Julie Delpy. (France) – New York Premiere, Narrative. This deliriously witty follow-up to 2 Days in Paris finds Marion (writer/director Julie Delpy) living a comfortable life in New York with her latest hipster boyfriend, Mingus (Chris Rock, brilliantly playing it straight), and their two young kids from prior relationships. A riotous comedy of cultural errors ensues when Marion’s totally unhinged, gleefully unfiltered family arrives from Paris to meet Mingus for the first time. In English, French with subtitles. A Magnolia Pictures release.

Take This Waltz, directed and written by Sarah Polley. (Canada) – U.S. Premiere, Narrative. Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) are happily married. Their life is thrown out of order when Margot falls for another man and is forced to choose between the comfort of the familiar and the excitement of the unknown. Writer-director Sarah Polley’s follow-up to her acclaimed film Away From Here is a quirky, uncommonly heartfelt look at the evolving nature of love and the difficulty of sustaining a relationship over time. A Magnolia Pictures release.

A pesar de su objetivo de ayudar e impulsar el cine independiente neoyorquino y los directores noveles, muchos critican a este festival por pecar de ser simplemente una plataforma de lanzamiento para las grandes productoras de Hollywood.

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