Locarno: where the soul has wings
“Gerda” by Natalya Kudryashova is a clash of a delicate, innocent soul with wild everyday life in which one has to fight for survival.
“Gerda” by Natalya Kudryashova is a clash of a delicate, innocent soul with wild everyday life in which one has to fight for survival.
If we were to imagine a slow cinema-style sitcom, it would be “The Girl and the Spider”.
Lipman mixes various orders by breaking the fourth wall, giving dolls a status equal to those of puppeteers, reviving them not only physically…
Like Louise by the Shore (2016), the new work of the French animator, Jean-François Laguionie (this time cooperating with Xavier Picard), La Voyage du Prince, is an extremely reflective film. Again the main character is an older person – or rather a monkey – and again the picture largely consists of comments, observations and memories.
Guests from the east come to Portugal, wanting to serve the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution, which first shook the foundations of the fascist dictatorship of Marcel Caetan, to effectively overthrow it later. We have 1975, a full year after the Revolution, which began to bring harvest.
Wilcox is a puff piece for today’s hermit for whom the mystical experience is the conscious abandonment of the capitalist world of people and gods in favor of the world of the beast, which is increasingly threatened by human greed.
The autothematic thread (the act of filming) smoothly passes into the documentary, creators collaborating with the local community, and the story of the beginnings of homo sapiens mixes with the experience of modern tourism – both local (the girl following the trail of her parents’ love) and postcolonial (the couple tourists from the United States who can only get along in their own language).