newsletter #6
Nisimazine
Karlovy Vary 2012
Our Karlovy Vary Newsletter Series comes to an end with this issue (though an e-�book is coming...). We complete our survey of Eastern European cinema with a review of People Out There, a story of ordinary misery and hopelessness from Latvia and an interview with the GLUHFWRU RI D VXEWO\ LPSUHVVLYH ÀOP Dear Betrayed Friends. And an end seems to have come to western civilization too, at OHDVW MXGJLQJ IURP (NWRUDV /\JL]RVȍV Boy (DWLQJ WKH %LUGȏV )RRG...
People Out There
Image by Josef Rabara
Interview: Dear Betrayed Friends
review by Mirona Nicola (Romania)
Luckily for both the director and the audience at KVIFF, “Dear betrayed friendsâ€? made it back to the East of the West competition. Hungarian director SĂĄra Cserhalmi talks about her powerful feature directorial debut. MORE
Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
review by Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy)
review by Giovanni Vimercati (Itlay)
Latvian suburban drama People Out There can be taken as a good specimen to measure the state of health of Eastern European cinema, and is in accordance with this KV festival’s section GHYRWHG WR ÀUVW DQG VHFRQG IHDWXUH ÀOPV IURP the former socialist block. MORE
(NWRUDV /\JL]RV¡ ÀOP YHHUV DZD\ IURP WKH RXWZDUG ZHLUGQHVV RI KLV FRPSDWULRWV¡ ÀOPV Dogtooth, L, Alpis, Attenberg) to penetrate the disturbed inti-� macy of a young Greek man stripped of any social life and thus reduced to his most basic bio(il)logi-� cal functions. MORE