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The Proposition (La Propuesta) Cineclub John Hillcoat, 2005 Els dijous del Westerns contemporanis | 26 d’abril 2018 | Sessions: 20.00 i 22.30 h The proposition (La propuesta) Cineclub John Hillcoat, 2005 Sinopsi Austràlia, a finals del segle XIX, el capità Stanley ha capturat dos joves de la banda dels germans Burns. El tracte que Stanley li ofereix al germà mitjà col·loca a aquest enfront d´un dramàtic dilema moral: si decideix salvar el seu germà petit, llavors morirà el seu germà gran. era que volviera a hacerlo para Fitxa artística Un western que privilegia el desierto rojo australino The Proposition. Pero esta vez Guy Pearce. ....... Charlie Burns Hillcoat subió la apuesta y le Ray Winstone ....... Captain Stanley El songwriter de la voz caver- preguntó por qué no escribía John Hurt ........... Jellon Lamb nosa escribió para el director el guión, ya que estaba. Fue Emily Watson. ...... Martha Stanley John Hillcoat un western gra- estrenada en el mundo entero Danny Huston ....... Arthur Burns ve y solemne. hacia finales del 2005 y uná- nimemente elogiada por la “No queríamos que sonara a crítica. western estadounidense lleva- do a Australia”, dijo más de The Proposition tiene lugar una vez Nick Cave en referen- hacia finales del siglo XIX, en cia a The Proposition, la pelí- una zona desértica australiana cula cuyo guión escribió un Fitxa tècnica conocida como Queensland. par de años atrás. Tres lustros Como Silverado, la película Director . ..... John Hillcoat después de publicar su prime- empieza en medio de un tiro- Guió . ......... Nick Cave ra y hasta ahora única novela, teo. Desde el interior de un Productor ..... Australia-UK Film Council el songwriter de la voz caver- granero, unos fuera de la ley Música. ....... Nick Cave, Warren Ellis nosa recibió de su amigo y tiran, con todo lo que tienen, Fotografia . Benoît Delhomme compatriota, el cineasta aus- contra las fuerzas policiales Durada . .... 104 minuts traliano John Hillcoat, una País ............ Austràlia que los cercaron. Uno de ellos oferta que no pudo o no quiso muere y a los otros dos los rechazar. Cave ya había com- atrapan. El capitán Stanley, de puesto la música para algunas las fuerzas británicas de ocu- películas de Hillcoat y la idea pación (Ray Wins tone, espe- cialista en “pesados” a quien Filmada con altísimas tempe- oficialidad británica con los Scorsese acaba de usar en Los raturas en medio del desierto, aborígenes desperdigados por infiltrados), le hace al bandido The proposition es una pelícu- el desierto para tener una foto Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce, la polvorienta, llena de tipos fija de la relación que conquis- protagonista de Memento) sucios y transpirados, que pa- tadores y conquistados mantu- una propuesta digna de Faus- recerían no tener fuerza ni pa- vieron allá en Oceanía. to: si quiere que liberen a su ra sacudirse las moscas que se hermano menor deberá entre- les posan encima. Hay una so- Tan grave y solemne como una gar al mayor, al que buscan la mujer, la esposa del capitán canción de Nick Cave, tan lle- por una masacre en la que una Stanley (la misma Emily Wat- na de citas literarias como mujer embarazada resultó vio- son de Contra viento y marea y ellas, el exceso retórico es el lada. Allá va Charlie, rumbo al Embriagado de amor), cuya peor enemigo de The Proposi- desierto, en un viaje que pare- prolijidad de buena familia tion. Sobre todo, cuando apa- cería una versión fraterna del inglesa revela que no ha ido a rece un cazador de cabezas que el capitán Willard em- parar precisamente al lugar inusitadamente culto (un John prendió en Apocalypse Now! más indicado. Por más que Hurt que tal vez sea el equiva- Como Willard, Charlie Burns alrededor el desierto parezca lente del fotógrafo de Dennis deberá internarse en lo salva- extenderse hasta más allá del Hopper en la película de Cop- je, la tierra de esos aborígenes infinito, el de The Proposition pola). Y cuando, sobre el final de piel oscura que todo cinéfi- es un ambiente carcelario. Co- de la película, el outlaw del lo conoce al dedillo, desde que mo si hubiera quedado signa- siempre pomposo Danny Hus- los vio por primera vez en La do para siempre por esa condi- ton se pone a reflexionar en última ola (David Gulpillil, el ción de colonia penal que la voz alta, frente a atardeceres más reconocible de ellos, hace lejanísima Australia tuvo en dorados, sobre la relación en- aquí de rastreador). Como Wi- sus orígenes para el conquista- tre hombre y naturaleza. Ya llard, Charlie terminará en- dor inglés. Como también su- vendrá un último estallido de contrando frente a sí a un poe- cedía en Apocalypse Now!, los violencia brutal para volver a ta guerrero que se volvió loco mandantes del protagonista poner las cosas en su lugar. El (el últimamente muy requeri- parecen tanto o más crueles y lugar de cierto continente sal- do Danny Huston, hijo de despiadados que la presa a vaje llamado western. O lo que John). Como Willard, una vez capturar. Así lo demuestra la aquí es sinónimo: Australia. consumada su misión, Charlie larga, interminable sesión de Extret de: ya no volverá a saber si es un sangrientos latigazos conduci- Horacio Bernades héroe o un traidor, un justicie- da por el superior del capitán www.página 12.com ro o un desalmado. Stanley. Basta confrontar la 21 de juliol de 2007 cines IMPERIAL Cineclub Sabadell .
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