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Another high class drama that is as fine in it's own way as is After The Wedding.
A German/Turkish production that shows - among many - the prodigious talent of Hanna Schygulla.
Not only film; life. A genuine fulfillment to watch.
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Two magnificent films, each atmospheric and haunting in it's way though I did find 'Auf der anderen Seite' has taken me even further into the interior of something that I want to call humanity than 'After The Wedding' but that word just doesn't begin to express how I feel about these films.
lately I've felt witness to a great age of film, whether that age is large or small doesn't matter when one has beauty and truth such as this to partake of.
J.B.
make you speak of being "witness to a great age of film"? If I'm understanding that correctly. Please explain that phrase.BTW, you might enjoy The Band's Visit. It's a smaller film but no less successful in conveying the same human qualities as these two. Delightful, really.
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As far as a list of films that have led me conceptualize this great age of film I mentioned it's not really like that.
Over the past few years I've seen a lot of movies (and only recently did I realize the ones I was most affected by were of a type) and when I went to see 'After The Wedding' I had a very personal....epiphany I guess that gelled into this idea that many film makers (mostly foreign and independent) were/are delving deep into the genesis of, quality/nature/limits of and 'shape' of our deepest humanity and how we express/use/experience are controlled by/rebel against and interact with the qualities that make us. They are also very interested in honesty, it's limits/qualities and what honesty really is.
IMO we are in a great age of film because these film makers are doing this by crafting art that is not navel gazing, self critical, self indulgent or exploitive but is honest in saying "Look, this is us." and this is all happening during what I would call a fairly dark and uncertain time....an age when we need this.
I have failed here to actually get across what I am feeling/thinking and I hope this doesn't sound like a bunch of gobbledygook but it's the best I can do right now while I mull this over some more.
J.B.
as they come to you. I'm sure I will benefit from them.
is coming to mind as a film that fits in that smaller but very human category.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for the title. It's already in queue.
I'm interested in the background to Tony D's statement/phrase. There's more to it than just a list of films, I suspect.
I look forward to your thoughts on the film... and I agree with what Tony said above... though I wouldn't have thought to say it myself.
The Edge Of Heaven arrives here from Netflix today.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course there will be an occasional 'Revolutionary Road' which IMO destroyed a brilliant Richard Yates novel but further to my blatherings about the 'Great Age' we are all very fortunate to be witness to this.
A couple of weeks after I saw 'Gran Torino' I realized that Clint Eastwood has done his bit for the cause as well and it made me do a re-think of some of the themes he touched on in that film.
And they just keep coming.
J.B.
"Schulze" is a quirky, warm, odd little film with some great acting in it. Him finding his 'inner Cajun' is very touching.
I saw it with my wife after we had agreed to divorce, but were still living together. A strange night at the movies.
CC.
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I liked it very much and thought it to be better than "Head On" which I saw after "Edge Of Heaven". Definitely a director who's work is worth seeking out.
I also enjoyed this film but thought, through its leaving so many coincidences disconnected, that it somewhat betrayed the story to make a philosophical point.
A very worthwhile film, however, and one that certainly should be seen by serious modern film aficionados.
I appreciate your points.
For me, a big attraction to the "story" was the near misses or the unresolved coincidences (if that's an apt word). This element, drawn to our attention in the span of a film, poetically replicates, I'm sure, all the near misses in relationship which pass unnoticed to our eyes everyday. Near misses which would propel us in an entirely different direction were they to become known. Into a different set of stories.
I loved the control of this story by the director. It was filled with a deliberate, quiet uncertainty from start to finish. There were no great explosions of surprise - to it's credit - rather an unfolding of authentic, connected events in a contained universe. With the admission that it could be penetrated - or not - by adjacent worlds of related but unknown experience.
Life is not so neat. Every moment is pregnant with possibilities standing in potential to the happenings and the non-happenings which are seen or unseen. The fact of our missing something is as important as our catching it. We just may not be aware of it.
It's not a perfect movie but it's a damn good one. I will watch this director.
There's another of his, by the way, that I saw a year or so ago. Head On. A bit more farfetched in scope- a love story - but I remember enjoying it.
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and ultimately very sad (but well done).
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the I'm gonna have to see it.
Man, I sure miss our little theater that showed foreign films. Landmark Art is better thanb nothing but they aren't terribly adventurous.
afilado,
Thanks for mentioning that one; I hadn't heard of it. Good to see Schygulla back in action.
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