18. IFF Watch Docs – Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Maing’s goal was to draw public attention to the problem of the quota system of policy the New York’s police force.
Maing’s goal was to draw public attention to the problem of the quota system of policy the New York’s police force.
Best F(r)iends is a story – attention, attention – “based on facts.” Apparently, the script idea came from Wiseau’s and Sestero’s old journey together, when Tommy suspected his companion of plotting to take his life.
To realize how difficult it is to record solid material in a small space, it may be enough for one to imagine using a crowded elevator (or – remaining in the climate of the Cutterhead – in the subway bursting with people). There is not enough space to catch your breath, let alone fit your camera.
A female love melodrama was set in a masculine, gay world, and in the background the intrigue of a masked murderer killing subsequent actors was placed.
In the background of the exhibition of the characters (violent suicide, church burning, artificial cluster of radical ideologies and knifing), there will be a place for context. Perhaps the purpose of presenting flourishing in the 1980s.
Screenplay based on Kyoko Okazaki’s manga of the same title, tells us about a group of teenagers burdened with puberty problems. The action takes place in the 90s, i.e. at the first more critical moment for the Land of the Rising Sun.
Following the path of his colleagues, Yeo Siew Hua will take up the subject of loneliness, social alienation, impossibility of communication (which, for example, we know perfectly well from Tsai Ming-liang’s cinema), as well as the effects of expansion – in this case also territorial – of wild capitalism (Zhangke Jia could smile).
The film by the Vietnamese artist is an aesthetic, romantic dream about the relationship of two men: debt collector, Dung, working for a local loan shark and actor of the traditional cai-luong opera, Linh-Phung.
Killing is a film created with little budget, but despite modesty, it maintains high diligence and accuracy – the duels are realistic (apparently the director spent several months practicing sword fighting to perform as well as a martial arts master), and in the work of the camera you can feel the modernistic significance of meanings.
The death of Mao Zedong and covering his idealized portrait with a black veil, means not only the symbolic end of an era in Chinese history, but also the moment when mild youthful problems are superseded by forced by political and social change and war (Chinese-Vietnam War) adulthood.