Hard Knock Life: Troch Returns With Another Exquisite Examination on Anguish
Actress turned director Fien Troch returns with her third feature film, Kid, another beautifully wrought portrait of a family caught in the cross-hairs of a cruel existence, this time related almost entirely from the viewpoint of children. With this latest, perhaps a cap on a trilogy of films all dealing with children experiencing tragic circumstances, Troch definitely solidifies herself as one of the best up and coming Belgian directors, and you can certainly add her name to a very small list of up and coming female auteurs.
Two young brothers, Billy (Maarten Meeusen) and Kid (Bent Simons) share a washed out, somnolent existence with their mother (Gabriela Carrizo). It seems their father disappeared some time ago, leaving their mom in extreme financial difficulty, and more than just with bill collectors. She takes her boys to her sister’s farm,...
Actress turned director Fien Troch returns with her third feature film, Kid, another beautifully wrought portrait of a family caught in the cross-hairs of a cruel existence, this time related almost entirely from the viewpoint of children. With this latest, perhaps a cap on a trilogy of films all dealing with children experiencing tragic circumstances, Troch definitely solidifies herself as one of the best up and coming Belgian directors, and you can certainly add her name to a very small list of up and coming female auteurs.
Two young brothers, Billy (Maarten Meeusen) and Kid (Bent Simons) share a washed out, somnolent existence with their mother (Gabriela Carrizo). It seems their father disappeared some time ago, leaving their mom in extreme financial difficulty, and more than just with bill collectors. She takes her boys to her sister’s farm,...
- 11/2/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Lucrecia Martel's hallucinatory new film "The Headless Woman" could just as well be called "The Hazy Woman." While the film's protagonist, the middle-aged Vero, appears headless, literally, in several images -- with the frame cutting her off at the neck -- she's also shown walking around in a daze, with blurry cinematography providing a visual metaphor for her shell-shocked state. The routines of her existence -- car rides, sitting at home, getting tests at a hospital -- become a fuzzy, alien landscape through which she floats like a drifting astronaut.
That effect, created with a long lens on the camera, can be seen most clearly in a scene a third of the way through, in which the "kid who washes the cars" stands in Vero's entryway. The extreme shallow focus distorts the boy to such a degree that he appears an amorphous phantom in the background -- a possible...
That effect, created with a long lens on the camera, can be seen most clearly in a scene a third of the way through, in which the "kid who washes the cars" stands in Vero's entryway. The extreme shallow focus distorts the boy to such a degree that he appears an amorphous phantom in the background -- a possible...
- 8/21/2009
- by Anthony Kaufman
- ifc.com
A quirky new South American movie about a serial killer obsessed with John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever character has won the big prize at the Turin Film Festival in Italy.
Director Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero was awarded the Best Film prize at the 26th annual event on Saturday.
The picture also scored the Italian festival's Film Critics' Award, and its star Alfredo Castro took home the Best Actor honour.
French actress Emmanuelle Devos won the Best Actress award for her role in Non-Dit (Unspoken), while Sean Baker's drama The Prince of Broadway claimed Jury Prize for Best Film.
Director Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero was awarded the Best Film prize at the 26th annual event on Saturday.
The picture also scored the Italian festival's Film Critics' Award, and its star Alfredo Castro took home the Best Actor honour.
French actress Emmanuelle Devos won the Best Actress award for her role in Non-Dit (Unspoken), while Sean Baker's drama The Prince of Broadway claimed Jury Prize for Best Film.
- 11/30/2008
- WENN
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced a whole load of films, including many world premiers, to be added as part of their lineups. Some of the more interesting looking ones are Lance Daly's Kisses about two Irish kids who run away from home and deal with the dark underside of Dublin. Another film I'm definitely interested in is Scott McGehee and David Siegel's Uncertainty which stars one of my personal favorites, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's about a couple in love who find out she's pregnant and they flip a coin from where it apparently follows both possible storylines, but with the same disastrous consequences. Also screening will be Fabrice du Welz's Vinyan (trailer here) which is about a couple who lost their son in a Tsunami and won't give up looking for him. In the Discovery program, the stop-motion animation $9.99 which is about a man seeking the meaning to life.
- 8/14/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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