The Tree
Julie Bertuccelli France, Australia, Germany, Italy, 2010/11 The story of the father of a family passing away in a tragic accident and reincarnating in an immense fig tree spreading its branches far and wide above the household leaves a dual impression. On the one hand, the touching tale of love and loss is a celebration … Read more
Somewhere… something, sometime
Sofia Coppola, USA, 2010 The film opens with a static shot – a car racing in circles on an empty track. Engine roar escalates swiftly, then cuts the air and distances again, then again and again. As we count four rounds, the car stops, a man opens the door, steps out and stands next to … Read more
Rabbit Hole
John Cameron Michell USA, 2010 Married couple struggles to revert to the peaceful life, after their four-year-old son dies in a car accident. Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire, this is a remarkably intelligent story. Striking, but not hyperbolic, the film is an incredibly accurate physiological portrait of the two loving people, trapped in … Read more
The visual maze of HOWL
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman USA, 2010 The motion picture is centred around the trail that followed the release of Allen Ginsberg’s controversial poem “Howl”. With a seemingly simple plot in its core, the film is weaved of four separate storylines, each taking their turn in building a complex picture of the infamous obscenity trial. In … Read more
Interview with actress Yuliya Aug
As the Silent Souls brings the first prize from the Abu Dhabi Film Festival to Russia, the lead actress Yuliya Aug tells about her experience of playing the symbol of womanhood: You have a very unusual role in the film. What was your initial response to the offer to play a dead woman? I never … Read more
Silent Souls
Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russia, 2010 An ethnographic drama, the film is an exploration of the culture and traditions of the merja people – a finno-ugric ethnic minority once living in the North-West of Russia, but nowadays almost completely died out. Nevertheless, the filmmakers avoid making any claims about the films historical credibility, as director Aleksei Fedorchenko … Read more
