Time Of Moulting Photo: Courtesy of Fantasia
One of the strongest films at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and also one of the most unusual, Time Of Moulting is an exploration of one girl’s journey as she grows up in a cramped flat in Seventies and eighties Germany, largely ignored by the people around her. It’s framed by a series of 57 static camera shots, giving viewers the impression of flicking back through an old photo album which brings memories to life as actors Zelda Espanschied and Miriam Schiweck portray the girl, Stephanie, at different stages in her life. It’s a film that feels incredibly complete, part of a universe that extends far beyond the screen. Braving an interview not in her native language, director Sabrina Mertens told me that it emerged from a mixture of different ideas.
“I started with the idea to make a classical horror movie,...
One of the strongest films at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and also one of the most unusual, Time Of Moulting is an exploration of one girl’s journey as she grows up in a cramped flat in Seventies and eighties Germany, largely ignored by the people around her. It’s framed by a series of 57 static camera shots, giving viewers the impression of flicking back through an old photo album which brings memories to life as actors Zelda Espanschied and Miriam Schiweck portray the girl, Stephanie, at different stages in her life. It’s a film that feels incredibly complete, part of a universe that extends far beyond the screen. Braving an interview not in her native language, director Sabrina Mertens told me that it emerged from a mixture of different ideas.
“I started with the idea to make a classical horror movie,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sometimes, looking back at a troubled childhood, all one has is photographs from which to try to make sense of it all. In this very formal yet powerfully constructed drama, Sabrina Mertens envisages a life through 57 photographs given life, static camera shots into an existence that might otherwise have passed by unseen. Split into two parts, it first follows its heroine, Stephanie, through a larval stage in which she explores the world around her, gorging on whatever ideas she can find; then catches up ten years later as, emerging from puberty, she begins to unfurl the wings she has built from them, to reveal her adult self.
Part of Fantasia 2020, the film is perhaps notable for what it doesn't do, its narrative choices subtle and restrained, its interest not so much in what Stephanie does as in who she is. Shocking us with displays of violence is unnecessary...
Part of Fantasia 2020, the film is perhaps notable for what it doesn't do, its narrative choices subtle and restrained, its interest not so much in what Stephanie does as in who she is. Shocking us with displays of violence is unnecessary...
- 9/6/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Young Stephanie (Zelda Espenschied) is utterly alone. It doesn’t matter that she lives with her parents (Freya Kreutzkam’s Mom and Bernd Wolf’s Reinhardt) because their physical presence pales in comparison to their emotional absence. And nothing will ever change. It can’t. Stephanie’s mother is too far lost in the past to think about the girl’s childhood when memories of her parents keep her forever longing for the childhood she herself wasn’t afforded. Stephanie’s father is conversely too busy living in the present to worry about anyone else as more than obstacles with which to combat on a personal road towards contentment. They both know it’s not a perfect home to raise a child in, but it’s all they can muster. They embrace stagnancy in lieu of happiness.
That doesn’t mean Stephanie wants out, though. Writer/director Sabrina Mertens understands...
That doesn’t mean Stephanie wants out, though. Writer/director Sabrina Mertens understands...
- 8/25/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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Fantasia’s upcoming virtual edition, which will run August 20 – September 2, will kick off with the first showing of Neil Marshall’s horror The Reckoning. Set in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague, Charlotte Kirk leads the cast of the movie about the witch hunts that followed the crisis.
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
- 6/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’ to close the festival, which runs January 22 to February 2.
João Nuno Pinto’s Mosquito is to open the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has unveiled its full line-up of competition titles.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Mosquito follows a 17-year-old Portuguese recruit who gets lost in the African wilderness in 1917 and marks the second feature from Portuguese director Pinto following 2010’s América. It will also compete in Iffr’s Big Screen Competition.
The festival will close with Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood, starring Tom Hanks as Us icon Fred Rogers.
João Nuno Pinto’s Mosquito is to open the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has unveiled its full line-up of competition titles.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Mosquito follows a 17-year-old Portuguese recruit who gets lost in the African wilderness in 1917 and marks the second feature from Portuguese director Pinto following 2010’s América. It will also compete in Iffr’s Big Screen Competition.
The festival will close with Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood, starring Tom Hanks as Us icon Fred Rogers.
- 12/18/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
My Mexican BretzelThe titles for the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 22 – February 2, 2020. We will update the program as new films are revealed.
Tiger COMPETITIONEl año del descubrimiento (Luis López Carrasco)Beasts Clawing at Straws (Kim Yonghoon)The Cloud in Her Room (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)Desterro (Maria Clara Escobar)Drama Girl (Vincent Boy Kars)La fortaleza (Jorge Thielen Armand)Kala azar (Janis Rafa)Nasir (Arun Karthick)Piedra sola (Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf)Si yo fuera el invierno mismo (Jazmín López)
Bright Future COMPETITIONBabai (Artem Aisagaliev)Chaco (Diego Mondaca)Los fantasmas (Sebastián Lojo)Fellwechselzeit (Sabrina Mertens)For the Time Being (Salka Tiziana)I Blame Society (Gillian Wallace Horvat)Moving On (Yoon Dan-bi)My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Giménez Lorang)Ofrenda (Juan María Mónaco Cagni)Panquiaco (Ana Elena Tejera)A Rifle and a Bag (Isabella Rinaldi / Cristina Hanes / Arya Rothe)Sebastian jumps über Geländer (Ceylan-Alejandro...
Tiger COMPETITIONEl año del descubrimiento (Luis López Carrasco)Beasts Clawing at Straws (Kim Yonghoon)The Cloud in Her Room (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)Desterro (Maria Clara Escobar)Drama Girl (Vincent Boy Kars)La fortaleza (Jorge Thielen Armand)Kala azar (Janis Rafa)Nasir (Arun Karthick)Piedra sola (Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf)Si yo fuera el invierno mismo (Jazmín López)
Bright Future COMPETITIONBabai (Artem Aisagaliev)Chaco (Diego Mondaca)Los fantasmas (Sebastián Lojo)Fellwechselzeit (Sabrina Mertens)For the Time Being (Salka Tiziana)I Blame Society (Gillian Wallace Horvat)Moving On (Yoon Dan-bi)My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Giménez Lorang)Ofrenda (Juan María Mónaco Cagni)Panquiaco (Ana Elena Tejera)A Rifle and a Bag (Isabella Rinaldi / Cristina Hanes / Arya Rothe)Sebastian jumps über Geländer (Ceylan-Alejandro...
- 12/18/2019
- MUBI
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