Jekaterina Oertel

Jekaterina Oertel

Artículos

PANORAMA: DAU. NORA MOTHER DE ILYA KHRZHANOVSKIY Y JEKATERINA OERTEL

Por Mónica Delgado

A diferencia de las dos entregas anteriores del proyecto, en DAU. Nora Mother, casi toda la tensión se concentra dentro de los ambientes de la casa del líder del centro de investigación, Lev Landau, a quien todos conocen como Dau. Y esta “tensión” dramática se sostiene en dos personajes femeninos: en Nora (Radmila Shegoleva), la joven esposa de Dau (Theodor Currentzis), y su madre (Lydia Shchegoleva), quienes tienen un duelo emocional en torno a los roles de las mujeres como progenitoras, hijas y esposas.

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Berlinale

BERLINALE 2020: DAU.NATASHA BY ILYA KHRZHANOVSKIY AND JEKATERINA OERTEL

By Mónica Delgado

Due to its extensive and polemic process of production, Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Jekaterina Oertel’s DAU. Natasha is a work whose value resides in how to detect the frontiers of fiction, to hunt those moments where the true catharsis of the real comes to float. At least, in my case, it was an uncomfortable exercise, since the non-professional actors and actresses let us see in several situations the way they assaulted with agency some scenes in a free way, in their own way, but submitted nevertheless to certain specific rules for the shooting. The filmmaker’s yoke, contained and destroyed, inside the fictional limits, to achieve moments of sudden commotion. 

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