An instance of radical lo-fi homespun cinema: actress Isild Le Besco's short feature directorial debut, Demi-tarif. It stars four children, two young girls (Cindy David, Lila Salet), a boy (Kolia Litscher)...and Le Besco's camera. The three actors, each character from a different father, are stranded in Paris without their mother, and the only supervision they have is by the filmmaker's handheld, consumer Dv camera (shot by the director's brother). The camera naturally becomes a spiritual and physical collaborator and cohort in the children's free-wheeling bohemian existence. They steal food and clown and play—not at being a real family, but at playing at being a family (or an enclave or a utopia).
The tender magnificence of this small video is that Le Besco and her collaborators—as there can be no doubt the children in their camera-aware parading are co-authors of the film—are not filming a fantasy film,...
The tender magnificence of this small video is that Le Besco and her collaborators—as there can be no doubt the children in their camera-aware parading are co-authors of the film—are not filming a fantasy film,...
- 3/21/2011
- MUBI
Somehow the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center seems like the last place you'd expect to see the Rutger Hauer thriller "Hobo With a Shotgun" blasting through, but it's a fitting way to introduce this year's Film Comment Selects series, which begins tonight in New York with both guns a blazin' and runs through March 4th.
As Nick Pinkerton noted in the Village Voice this week, there's "a downright dedication to evil" with this year's selections, which include the enjoyably excruciating Korean revenge thriller "I Saw the Devil" and the soon-to-play-sxsw return of "Saw" director James Wan's "Insidious." And yet there's so much goodwill on display since many of the films gracing the Film Society of Lincoln Center's screens are without American distribution and may prove to be hard to see in the future.
One of these gems that as of yet won't be appearing Stateside anytime soon is Thomas Vinterberg's "Submarino,...
As Nick Pinkerton noted in the Village Voice this week, there's "a downright dedication to evil" with this year's selections, which include the enjoyably excruciating Korean revenge thriller "I Saw the Devil" and the soon-to-play-sxsw return of "Saw" director James Wan's "Insidious." And yet there's so much goodwill on display since many of the films gracing the Film Society of Lincoln Center's screens are without American distribution and may prove to be hard to see in the future.
One of these gems that as of yet won't be appearing Stateside anytime soon is Thomas Vinterberg's "Submarino,...
- 2/19/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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