Cannes Film Festival, 2008: “Liverpool” (Alonso, Argentina)
Cannes Film Festival, 2008: “Liverpool” (Alonso, Argentina) Daniel Kasman Above: Farrel (Juan Fernandez) disembarks to visit his family in the mountains. “Anywhere but here” is the common phrase, but Liverpool’s variation seems to be “anywhere but anywhere.” Lisandro Alonso’s follow-up to Los Muertos is another mostly unspoken journey, but that film’s flirtations with myth and regression—traveling from prison to jungle—makes Liverpool’s revelation as a journey of banality all the more surpr