Paper Birds
As a performer who has been able to capture the pulse of the audience on both television and cinema, Emilio Aragón (full name Tomás Aragón Emilio Alvarez) sure knows how to connect with the emotions of his audiences. His debut feature film, “Paper Birds” (original Spanish title: “Pajaros De Papel”) provides ample proof of it.
Featured in the First Films World Competition of the 34thMontreal World Film Festival, where it shared the audience award with “The Day I Was Not Born” (original German title: “Das Lied in Mir”, which won the Fipresci prize), by another debutant director Florian Cossan, “Paper Birds” unabashedly pulls at the viewers’ emotional heartstrings.
The way it does so while portraying the relationship between a kid and his father-like figure who has lost his son and wife during the Spanish Civil War, makes one immediately compare it with Roberto Benigni’s much-awarded international hit...
As a performer who has been able to capture the pulse of the audience on both television and cinema, Emilio Aragón (full name Tomás Aragón Emilio Alvarez) sure knows how to connect with the emotions of his audiences. His debut feature film, “Paper Birds” (original Spanish title: “Pajaros De Papel”) provides ample proof of it.
Featured in the First Films World Competition of the 34thMontreal World Film Festival, where it shared the audience award with “The Day I Was Not Born” (original German title: “Das Lied in Mir”, which won the Fipresci prize), by another debutant director Florian Cossan, “Paper Birds” unabashedly pulls at the viewers’ emotional heartstrings.
The way it does so while portraying the relationship between a kid and his father-like figure who has lost his son and wife during the Spanish Civil War, makes one immediately compare it with Roberto Benigni’s much-awarded international hit...
- 1/13/2011
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
With the full line-up for the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival officially announced, I can finally begin to effectively obsess. And with 312 films from 64 countries screening at TIFF08, including 249 feature-length films, 76 per cent of which are world, international or North American premieres, and 61 of which are feature directorial debuts … well, needless to say, there’s a lot to obsess about.
Never let it be said, however, that I am not methodical in my obsessions. I begin with a preliminary review of the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar, with special thanks to Bay Area filmbud Carole Rutherford whose raids on IMdb and Wikipedia got me motivated. I also shout out to my Evening Class cohort Michael Hawley, the Twitch and Row Three teams, Dave Hudson at The Greencine Daily, Darren Hughes at 1st Thursday, the crew around Girish Shambu’s water cooler, and Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE for their welcome recommendations. This will...
Never let it be said, however, that I am not methodical in my obsessions. I begin with a preliminary review of the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar, with special thanks to Bay Area filmbud Carole Rutherford whose raids on IMdb and Wikipedia got me motivated. I also shout out to my Evening Class cohort Michael Hawley, the Twitch and Row Three teams, Dave Hudson at The Greencine Daily, Darren Hughes at 1st Thursday, the crew around Girish Shambu’s water cooler, and Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE for their welcome recommendations. This will...
- 8/23/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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