VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in April 2013. Meta-existence Le Quattro Volte, by Michelangelo Frammartino, starts out like a typical observational film. After a few seemingly gratuitous shots of an artisanal charcoal clamp, we start following the steps of a nameless elder (Giuseppe Fuda) who works as a goat herder in a […]
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Neon Bull (Boi Neon, 2015), Gabriel Mascaro
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in September 2016. Bull and glow There are many ways one can enter the world of Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull, but one that I find particularly fruitful hides behind a discreet casting choice: Vinícius Oliveira as Junior, a character who appears in the second half of the […]
No Home Movie (2015), Chantal Akerman
* Originally published at Cinética in September 2015. A branch in the wind “ ‘What am I doing here?’ There was no answer. The landscape did not answer.” Jonas Mekas in Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) No Home Movie – Chantal Akerman’s latest documentary focused on her relationship with her now-departed mother, Natalia Akerman – is a […]