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Japan’s Takeshi Kitano brings ‘cruel art’ to Venice Film Festival

AFP, Venice
Japan's Takeshi Kitano on Thursday completed his trilogy on the creative process as he unveiled his "Achilles and theTortoise" at theVenice film festival.
Driving headlong towards a validation of an for art's sake, the newfilm traces a man's lifelong quest to win recognition as a painter.
"This is a story about cruel art," Kitano said. The obsession begins when the artist, Machisu, is a small boy, the precocious son of a wealthy collector, who spends nearly every waking hour drawing or painting.
Real life intrudes with crushing tragedies, but he perseveres, encouraged by a doting wife who eggs him on in ever more reckless artistic adventures, even nearly drowninghim to sharpen his senses.
"It's not necessary for an artist to die," Kitano told a news conference. "Nor should he sacrifice his family life."
Instead, Machisu's story could be seen as "a side effect" of art, said Kitano, himself an artist who gives away his paintings. "Art becomes a drug for artists, but I'm not sure itapplies to all artists."
The trilogy began with "Takeshis'" in 2005, a surreal autobiographical look at the conflict between the filmmaker and his persona as an entertainer, and "Kantoku Banzai!" (2007), a comic exploration of his creative conflict as an artist.
Also Thursday, German director Christian Petzold offered an intimate drama, "Jerichow," set in an economically depressed part of east Germany.
A love triangle darkened by violence, desperation and betrayal, the plot builds on the characters' lonely personal journeys.
"Christian never tries to relate grand themes. He's always on a small scale, observing individuals struggling with their lives," said Benno Fuermarin, who plays Thomas, a returning soldier who was dishonourably discharged from the arpiy.
Thomas falls in love with Laura, the pretty exconvict wife ofTurkish businessman Ali, also haunted by his past.
But all is clouded by the present, and much revolves around money. "That part of Germany, about an hour from Berlin, is not doing well," Fuermann told reporters. "People are struggling to give life meaning, to make life graspable."
The 65th Venice film festival kicked off on Wednesday with "Burn After Reading," the final instalment of another hat trick, what Hollywood megastar George Clooney likes to call his "idiot trilogy" under the direction of the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
Also starring Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand (Joel Coen's wife), the film's world premiere was shown out of competition.
Of the 52 films selected, 21 will be competing for the Golden Lion top prize, to be awarded on September 6.
Both Kitano's "Achilles and the Tortoise" and . Miyazaki's animated feature "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" are tipped as favourites for the top prize.
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This year's festival is to be dedicated to Egyptian filmmakerYoussef Chahine, who died on July 27 aged 82.
A career Golden Lion has been reserved for Italian director Ermanno Olmi, 77, whose 1978 neo-realist epic "L'Albero degli Zoccoli’ (The Tree of Wooden Clogs) won the Golden Palm at Cannes and many other awards.