French Twists

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But in the end, what was oldest was also newest in Cannes '97. Two of the most masterful entries were by an 88-year-old Portuguese director and an Iranian filmmaker nearly banned from attending the ceremonies at which he tied for the top honor. Manoel de Oliveira's Viagem ao Principio do Mundo stars the late Marcello Mastroianni and Jean-Yves Gautier as a director and an actor who explore their family roots while on a movie shoot. Taste of Cherry, by Abbas Kiarostami, is a gorgeous work about a taxi driver who spends a night considering suicide. No women are bashed, no men are brutalized, and no couples get noisily drunk in the often wordless tellings of both stories.

This proves, I can only conclude, that even at Cannes, the meatiest movies don't contain any Pulp at all.

Originally posted May 30, 1997 Published in issue #381 May 30, 1997 Order article reprints

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