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BERLINALE 2022: AVEC AMOUR ET ACHARNEMENT BY CLAIRE DENIS

By Monica Delgado

All the elements of Avec amour et acharnement belong to the previous universe of Claire Denis. In this adaptation of a novel by the French writer Christine Angot, made in tandem with Denis herself in the script, unusual meanings about love appear, as well as forms of genre cinema, fetish actors, and a dramatic imprint around the rupture of the idyll. Presented in the official competition of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, this new feature film by Denis is a stupendous work about the figure of the intruder, and about suspicion, a necessary input to narrate a love story seen a thousand times, but here under the influence creative and innovative of Denis.

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2022.02.14
Berlinale

BERLINALE 2022: FLUX GOURMET, BY PETER STRICKLAND

By Monica Delgado

Peter Strickland’s fifth feature film is a satire on the world of artists in residence. Following the style of The Duke of Burgundy (2014), his episode in The Field Guide To Evil (2018) or In Fabric (2018), in Flux Gourmet (2022) exposes a fabled setting, with delicate, glamorous characters, but who they never cease to be bizarre or grandiloquent, to tell a story about impact performances.

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2022.02.14
Berlinale

BERLINALE 2022: RIMINI, BY ULRICH SEIDL

By Monica Delgado

With more than twenty films, between documentaries and fiction, the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl arrived at the 72nd edition of the Berlinale. Rimini’s premiere is part of the official competition, and although it takes the name of a city that is not indifferent to any movie buff (the birthplace of Federico Fellini), it is a portrait of an autumn character, crossed by a context political and social, as is often the case in much of this filmmaker’s cinema.

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2022.02.14
Berlinale

BERLINALE 2022: VIENS JE T’EMMÈNE (NOBODY’S HERO) BY ALAIN GUIRAUDIE

By Monica Delgado

The 72nd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival began in person against all odds. And a good symptom of the program’s commitment were the films selected for the initial date, such as the world premiere of the recent work by French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, the comedy Nobody’s Hero (Viens je t’emmène).

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2022.02.11
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2022: SEVEN DAYS EVERY WEEK OR FILM AS A FREE VERSE

By Milan Cyron
Translated from Czech by Tomáš Hudák.

In the 1960s, works of the Czechoslovak New Wave were regularly awarded in Cannes, Venice, Bergamo, Sorrento, Locarno, Mannheim, or Oberhausen while film critics praised directors such as Miloš Forman, Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, or Hynek Bocan. However, these Czech filmmakers somewhat overshadowed their Slovak companions, including arguably the most famous one, Juraj Jakubisko, whose second feature, Deserters and Pilgrims (1968), was awarded at the Venice Film Festival.

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2022.02.08
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2022: EKOBIO BY ELKIN CALDERÓN GUEVARA AND DIEGO PIÑEROS GARCÍA

By Monica Delgado

Within the Short & Mid-length: Artists’ Moving Image section of the recent Rotterdam International Film Festival, you can see EKOBIO, a Colombian short film by the artists’ collective formed by Elkin Calderón Guevara and Diego Piñeros García, which is the result of a multimedia project which is based on the texts of the Afro writer and researcher Manuel Zapata Olivella, who died in 2004.

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2022.02.02
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2022: AMMODO TIGER SHORT COMPETITION PT. 1

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

The Ammodo Tiger Competition, a run of mid-length and short film program at IFFR, has focused its view in a particular experience of exploring new narratives in smaller formats. The experimental field in Rotterdam has been well represented with past winners such as Fox Maxy’s Maat Means Land (2020), Daïchi Saito’s Engram of Returning (2015), Observando el Cielo by Jeanne Liotta (2007)  or Dorian Jespers’ Sun Dog (2019), among many others. While we explore this first part of Ammodo’s competition, we began to find certain hidden surprises and other returning favorites.

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2022.01.31
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2022: SPLENDID ISOLATION BY URSZULA ANTONIAK

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Urszula Antoniak switched her narrative methods in the mid 2010’s. After portraying deeply emotional and intimate narrative films like Nothing Personal (2009) and Code Blue (2011), she turned to a minimalistic style, vignette-driven method of portraying an emotional pathos between her characters, specially in Nude Area (2014), where her cinema was stripped bare of most of her usual elements to focus on particular emotional explorations with the image. And while the results of this switch were mixed, Antoniak seems to have found a middle ground with the recent Splendid Isolation (2021), premiered in IFFR 2022. 

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2022.01.27
Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM 2022: EAMI BY PAZ ENCINA

By Monica Delgado

After the October 2021’s of documentary Veladores, Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina quickly returns to the screens with a political fiction about the destruction of a community. Made possible with a series of international funds, EAMI (2022), which competes for the Tiger award, is an elegy on the disintegration of the native Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, who reside between the Paraguayan and Bolivian Chaco, and how Mennonite landowners intervene on their lands.

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2022.01.27

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