What can be the influence or place of the sacred in present days? The film tries to answer this question by exploring lies: a fake and still plausible prayer and a false re-creation of city life. From this mystification emerges an hypnosis, a relationship
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Nikolaus Geyrhalter has proved to be one of the most talented documentary filmmakers in Austrian production. In Danube Hospital, his camera travels through the many departments, corridors, rooms and cellars of one of the largest hospitals in Europe, where the movements and work routines that compose a harmonious whole of accuracy and precision are orchestrated. In this amazing visit, we feel like privileged spectators, opening doors to which patients normally have no access. A film that shows us how health, sickness, life and death are cared for by a complex institution in a country with a high level of development. (C. C.)
Within Walls describes us the details of the daily routines of a couple. The gestures and actions of the two, a silent dance mechanized by habit, are witnessed by the house that welcomes them and also gives them life, light, space, and the time which records them. (R. F.)
Sometimes we find ourselves walking, talking or simply looking at things. That is what the protagonists of this film do. However, inside this mystery of life, we don’t know who they are or what they do. Teddy Williams builds yet again a dense and fantasmatic universe where breezes rhyme with vacancies and to the verb to be has its full double meaning. (M. V.)
The myth of the wild child is revisited in this animation, through a sober work of color and movement. Where does the man and the animal begin? The moral superiority isn’t always in school playgrounds where children can be confused with wolves. And taking home creatures of the woods may or may not be the right solution. (P. C.)
In the midst of the Californian desert lies Bagdad, a train center for soldiers, before they leave for real Iraq. In this documentary by Emanuel Licha what scares us the most is that we play at wars, as if they were Hollywood movies. Accurate and astute,
Guided by the singular and attentive regard of the director, we share a brief moment of the life of these two people who work amongst coal in the mountains. The delicate photography shows us a place and characters full of details, contrasts and rhymes whe
A young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from grace artisan. The two men share a house and its permanent silence. No effort from the son is ever enough to please his bitter, disabled father, but neither is escape possible when there is such strong dependency. (M. Moz)
It is said that men are inattentive, looking out for themselves and little or nothing else. A bourgeois society is the mirror of a greater reality. The ones on a leash are the ones who see, those not authorized to speak, bark. But when misfortune happens don’t expect miracles. Parente is a filmmaker of a new Brazilian generation looking at middle class in a sharp and accurate way. (M. V.)
What do we remember when we think about our last teenage summers? Friends, parents, and often grandparents, and their unconditional love. A Piece of Summer is a present moment which has already become a future memory for a grandson and his days with his
An hilarious comedy. Prepared for a long trip between Europe and Asia, a cyclist sees his bike being destroyed by a clumsy character. His generosity will delay him more than he expected. Still a student at La Fémis, Cailley directs solidly his actors thro
As the hours go by, the fear of what might happen to two teenagers left alone on a road lost in the middle of nowhere grows. The new voices of Recife blow winds of change in the panorama of Brazilian film, as is confirmed in They’ll Come Back. Cris and her older brother were abandoned on the roadside and expect a solution. When her brother gets tired and decides to go looking for help, Cris is on her own and night is coming. In anticipation of several possible outcomes, all of them distressing, the judgments gather. A script that revolves on expectations, the standards and certainties of the spectator ‚ and that only delivers the story as its reception promises to be effective ‚ along with an unblemished photography. (M. M.)
What happens when a filmmaker delivers seven cameras to seven children so they can film their maids for a week? Is the proximity space the same with all family members? What is the place of each member in a family structure? When are the boundaries of friendship outpaced and the roles mingled? Of all the possible answers, Gabriel Mascaro’s film brings some of the less common. The innocence with which the daily routines are filmed leads to a staging of intimacy and a result far less naive than its beginning, with genuinely funny moments. Housemaids is a mirror of Brazil, the walls between classes made of Leblon cement and Rocinha bricks. Images shot by children in five different cities were delivered raw to the director for a final editing. (M. M.)
A man and a boy arrive at a motel where they are received by a woman of good intentions. A terrible revelation is pronounced in the swimming pool. But not everything is true and even what we see can be deceitful. A film on the act of distinguishing the tr
Stella spends her days at home, telling herself stories. We see her loudly discussing theories or singing in front of a mirror. It seems a one division house, and the window shows a distant Manhattan. Exalting boredom, there appears a French hero who need
The woman of Caxinas is a model of modern Portuguese women. This statement contradicts the traditional image of a fishwife bereaved in northern Portugal. But that’s what we discovered during the research for this film. And that’s what enchanted us. The romantic and vital force of these women, able to love and fight for life ‚ theirs and their husbands’ ‚ made me dedicate them a film. And this film is about two women who have two very different ways to respond to the trust given to and asked of them. Because beyond the portrayal of the women of Caxinas, this is a film about a friendship that is born between two very different women: master Sónia and actress Anabela. Sonia is the master chosen to star in the film, Anabela is the actress who infiltrates in her universe to discover a character of Caxinas. (João Canijo)
Fire dances. Smoke dances hypnotically. Fire dances with the dancing smoke.
Veronika Samartseva made a real intimate film. A journey to the interior world of a girl which makes us all traveling inside ourselves. A delicate animation which explodes in color from time to time, inhabited by an unexpected visitor, but also liberator.