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- London Film Festival: Goodbye to Language, My Old Lady, Serena
- London Film Festival: The Cub
- The Rio Festival: The Prizes
| London Film Festival: Goodbye to Language, My Old Lady, Serena Posted: Goodbye To LanguageTrying to describe Jean-Luc Godard's 3D feature Goodbye To Language is a difficult task. As you'd expect of the director, it's not a film that's kind to viewers, presenting a 70 minute-long barrage of confrontational style. In the end, it's difficult to interpret just what kind of narrative, if any, has been witnessed. Still, that’s probably the whole point. As the title suggests, language becomes almost mocked in a film that strives for incoherence. Stories overlap with conversations that don’t make sense and the audio stuns the viewer with a blast of noise after irregular breaks of silence. The film's content - usually created with some clarity in order to communicate with the audience - becomes ridiculed in a mosaic that includes philosophy, historical reconstruction and low-brow humour. Inconsistent English subtitles for the film also deliberately add to the muddled tone, although those with a decent grasp of French m... |
| Posted: As a bit of a horror film fanatic, Cub (aka Welp) was one of the films I was most looking forward to seeing at LFF. Thankfully, the debut film from Belgian director Jonas Govaerts is everything I wanted it to be – a loving, gruesome homage to the dark heart of cinema.At the centre of the film is Sam (Maurice Luijten), a temperamental outcast in a group of scouts led by Kris (Titus De Voogdt) and his slightly power-mad right-hand man Peter (Stef Aerts). The vulnerable youngster is terrified by the leaders’ stories of a mysterious boy, named Kai, who stalks the forest at night in werewolf form. Unfortunately for Sam and the rest of the troupe, the boy (Gill Eeckelaert) proves to be more real than anybody expected.The beauty of Cub is that it is a film made with real reverence and respect for horror cinema. It combines the influence of classic slashers from the '70s and '80s with the timeless creature-feature subgenre. The summer camp setting recalls F... |
| Posted: Festival do Rio 2014, the biggest film festival in South America, came to an official end on October 8 with a gala awards ceremony at the fest’s docklands HQ in downtown Rio. And for once, Empire picked the winner. Director Lirio Ferreira’s film Sangue Azul (Blue Blood) picked up three Redentors (a golden figurine formed from film stock that mirrors the city’s iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer), including the top prize of Best Feature in the Premiere Brazil section, a showcase for new works by homegrown filmmakers. The film, an earthy character-driven meditation on love and art set in the colourful world of a travelling circus, also netted Best Director for Ferreira and Best Supporting Actor for Rômulo Braga.Announcing the Premiere Brazil awards, Jury president Karim Ainouz commented: “The films awarded were chosen because they all have a strong personality and flirt between strong social commentary and poetic fables about the worl... |
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