Viennale 2013 Review: OCTOBER NOVEMBER, An Intense Family Drama A Tad Overboiled |
| Viennale 2013 Review: OCTOBER NOVEMBER, An Intense Family Drama A Tad Overboiled Posted: 02 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Götz Spielmann is a very intelligent director and he always seems to know exactly what he wants. In October November he creates an intense drama that sometimes gains emotional ground due to Spielmann's control and sometimes looses because it is just too controlled.It is a family drama encircling the life of two sisters and their dying father. Spielmann puts a lot into the mix: One of the sisters, Sonja, played by Nora von Waldstätten, is an actress and has lost her connection to home. She returns from an isolated life in the big city when her father gets ill.The second woman Verena, played by Ursula Strauss, has an affair with the doctor, who is played in a cheesy, almost embarrassing way by Sebastian Koch.The problem... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PDT Asia Society's film series "Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s," screening November 2-22, illuminates one of the lesser known film movements of the 60s and 70s, during which filmmakers in Iran, similarly to other contemporary movements in France, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and Brazil, were creating works with boldly individual styles that confronted the sociopolitical realities of their time. In Iran, these films, which were influenced by other world cinemas, navigated governmental censorship to offer alternatives to Hollywood movies and shallow domestic popular movies. Despite their immense influence on later filmmakers, these films remain little known and rarely screened. This series, in conjunction with Asia Society's "Iran Modern" exhibition of pre-1979 revolution Iranian art, sheds valuable light on this important period of cinema history. Below are particular highlights of... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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