With shades of Agnes Varda’s Vagabond, Itonje Soimer Guttormsen’s episodic feature debut stars Birgitte Larsen as a performance artist frustrated by her personal roadblocks.
At IFFR 2021, two Japanese films provide complementary perspectives into the intersection of class and gender At first glance, the two films look quite different, and yet they succeed in drawing out what they see as certain fundamental features of the national temperament. Srikanth Srinivasan February 14, 2021 10:29:50 IST A still from Yukiko Sode s Aristocrats
Like several events over the past year, the 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) was reconceived in light of pandemic-imposed restrictions. In addition to a significant part of the proceedings taking place online, the festival is also split across February and June, with a host of repository screenings (online and off) and a special exhibition at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam offered for audiences in the interceding time.
Jun Li chose to focus on the homeless in Sham Shui Po for his second film. He tells the Post why, among other things, he chose not to delve into the backstories of the film’s characters.
film profile], in the Tiger Competition section of the International FilmFestival Rotterdam. Her black-and-white family drama was shot in Georgia and is based on old tradition which says that when a person dies in a different place than the one where they will be buried, the youngest member of the family needs to pull a thread between the two places. This is the only way to link the body and soul of the deceased.
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Cineuropa: Why was it important to shoot the film in black and white?
Juja Dobrachkous: It was clear from the beginning that I wanted the film to have a documentary style and at the same time to be a parable. It tells about the past and about memories. The black and white stands for that and also emphasises the legendary character of it. The story should moreover have something timeless, since it s not important when exactly it is happening. Georgia is a very colourful country and I had the feeling that this abundant
Movie Review: The Cemil Show Is an Interrogation of an Impossible Aspiration
When you canât distinguish between fantasy and reality, itâs madness; when you donât want to distinguish between them, itâs cinephilia.
A still from The Cemil Show .
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Cemil (Ozan Ãelik), a 32-year-old man, works as a security guard at the InciPark mall, âthe pearl of Istanbulâ. A milquetoast employee, he is insulted by his boss, ignored by his colleagues. Cemil is a nobody. But something shifts in him, when heâs watching old Turkish B movies: He becomes a somebody.
Revering the veteran actor Turgay Göral (Fuat Kökek), Cemil copies his moves. He imitates dialogues, threatens enemies, shoots them with a gun. Like his world, his gun is make-believe, too, shaped from his thumbs, index and middle fingers. Life is drab without a dream; Cemil has one, too: He wants to be an actor. BariÅ Sarhanâs