Anselmi
8 posts
[Visto: 313 veces] Our pick from the US Art hurts. Art is contradictory: it digs into one´s most personal conflicts and turns them into a distinctive piece that is both deeply universal and heartfully intimate. Nocturnal Animals dissects the nature of art and revenge (two deeply intertwined concepts), and cannily […]
[Visto: 363 veces] Our pick from Brazil. A febre is a subtle take on cultural and invidual identitity, a magical-realist tale that suddenly turns into a painfully severe insight of contemporary Brazil, a country steeped in both pluralism and hatred. This hidden gem from 2019´s festival season digs into the […]
[Visto: 689 veces] Our pick from Austria. A quiet, disturbing horror story, this film allegory cleverly examines troubled families, questions around the binary, self-otherness, and the stages of grief, all of this, with a highly unconventional, if clever approach. Blending minimalist storytelling with complex themes at its core, the film […]
[Visto: 367 veces] Our pick from Peru. In retrospective, NN shouldn’t work. On the surface, this is a bleak, inexpressive approach to death and memory, a film as cold its subject. Do we really need to be reminded of the burden of loss and grief? Isn´t it better to try […]
[Visto: 1093 veces] Our pick from Canada. Mommy takes the popular Freudian conception of childhood to the very extreme, dealing with burdens that are hardly tolerable in mainstream cinema. The tensioned relationship between a disturbed teenager and his mother is daringly explored, usually capable of asking the right questions, especially […]
[Visto: 313 veces] Our pick from Belgium. It´s not always easy to follow the Dardennes´ vision on cinema. Their films tend to be too close to the audience, too real. Being real often demands them to take a dreary look at life, to be unapologetically harsh, even openly pitiful. All […]
[Visto: 729 veces] Our pick from Germany. There is a clear sense of proximity in Christian Petzold’ latest allegorical film, Undine. The kind of proximity only achievable by the constant use of close-up, a technique that, when used wisely, can enlighten the main characters’ expressions of nostalgia and dread. The […]