newsletter #7
Kaunas international Film Festival 2012
In The Bedroom All good things must come to an end! So they say. Our presence here at Kaunas International Film Festival 2012 was an eye opener. Among many other things, we´ve discovered a vibrant film community in Lithuania full of potential and energy. But before our troops put “down their weapons” here is our final newsletter, where we´ve reviewed the Austrian thriller Spain; a dysfunctional French family on the run in Beast Paradise, and we met one of Polands most exciting new filmmakers, Tomasz Wasilewski.
Spain
Interview by Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania)
Yevgeny Pashkevich new film, Latvia´s 2012 Oscar entry, talks about his first feature after a 23 years break, telling us three stories from different periods, connected by character of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam. READ MORE
Beast Paradise
Review by Ugne. Gudz(inskaite. (Lithuania) Review by Sami Pöyry (Finland)
/Spain/joins a long line of films where the seemingly separate destinies of its characters are tied together in the hope that some profound statements might wait at the end of the process. Luckily the number of characters is kept to a minimum this time since even now the structure almost suffocates the drama. READ MORE
Estelle Larrivaz’s first feature “/Beast Paradise/” (“/ Le Paradis des bêtes/”) combines family drama with thriller elements. Dominique (Stefano Cassetti), an emotionally unstable man, beats his own wife, Cathy (Géraldine Pailhas), and decides to leaves his own pet shop in France to flee to Switzerland with his children Clarisse (Valentine Klingberg) and Ferdinand (Léon Brachet). While Cathy, after recovering in hospital, tries to find a trace of her family, Dominique multiplies his attempts to settle a new life in skiing resort, telling the children his own interpretation of the story. READ MORE