Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)
How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most...
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Tag: Werckmeister Harmonies
A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on cinema
September 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been almost a year that I have seen Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), a film I remember was...
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Los Ausentes – Nicolas Pereda (2014)
June 9, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Knowing Nicolas Pereda’s early work, I’d be inclined to say that his medium long film Los Ausentes marks a new era in his filmmaking. The trailer...
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Transatlantique – Félix Dufour-Laperrière (2014)
July 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I love slow films for the very good reason that they stay with you, whether they’re films about happy chaps (which is hardly ever the...
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The invisible princes
March 11, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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When I watched Lav Diaz’s Death in the Land of Encantos again, I had a nice encounter with a prince, the prince of the black dwarfs...
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Day 19 – Liverpool (Alonso)
December 19, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I reviewed Alonso’s Los Muertos earlier this month. Liverpool is my third Alonso film, and I have the feeling that his filmmaking has slightly changed since he...
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Day 17 – The Man from London (Tarr)
December 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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This film has to be in this year’s advent calendar. Bela Tarr’s The Man from London (2007) was the very first slow film I watched....
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Day 9 – Journey on the Plain (Tarr)
December 9, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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It was new to me that Béla Tarr directed a short film called Journey on the Plain in 1995, a year after the release of his...
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