A selection of prominent films that debuted in this year’s real-world festivals Berlin and Venice, or were presented under the so-called ‘Cannes Label 2020,’ make their Southeast Asian premiere over the next week at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival. Among the highlights is the Venice Golden Lion-winning title “Nomadland” directed by Chloe Zhao.
The film festival, which runs from Nov. 26 to Dec. 6 in a hybrid format with physical and online screenings amid Covid-19, has long positioned itself as a leading event in the region to showcase Singaporean cinema. Just as important is its role curating the year’s top international films for Singapore audiences.
Besides “Nomadland,” which follows a group of American middle class people forced to become nomads amid recession, the festival’s Cinema Today showcases another Venice award-winner “New Order.” Directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, the thriller revolving around a lavish wedding turning into a coup...
The film festival, which runs from Nov. 26 to Dec. 6 in a hybrid format with physical and online screenings amid Covid-19, has long positioned itself as a leading event in the region to showcase Singaporean cinema. Just as important is its role curating the year’s top international films for Singapore audiences.
Besides “Nomadland,” which follows a group of American middle class people forced to become nomads amid recession, the festival’s Cinema Today showcases another Venice award-winner “New Order.” Directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, the thriller revolving around a lavish wedding turning into a coup...
- 11/26/2020
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
When “the devil’s tail scatters fog across the created world”, a gauzy kind of disquiet settles in. Of course, the exhaustion of Earth is a sign of the anti-Christ. Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, and is now having virtual screenings at the New York Film Festival as a Main Slate selection, takes us to the Transylvanian village that used to bear the name of the title during the Austro-Hungarian empire. The 20th century is about to begin. Based on Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophical novel War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ, Puiu’s film, divided into six chapters named after the six protagonists, takes place in the elegant Apafi Mansion, a house with a long history of confiscation, nationalisation, and restoration. Without knowing any of this, you can sense its history -.
- 9/18/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Malmkrog
As we await the production of Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu’s Hora Staccato (which was announced as a project around the same time Sieranevada went into development and looks to be something we should see in 2020), it appears the director has gone ahead and filmed another project called Malmkrog, which according to the film’s producer Anca Puiu, is filmed mostly in French. Puiu’s latest is inspired by and freely adapted from philosopher Vladimir Solovyov’s book War, Progress and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ.…...
As we await the production of Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu’s Hora Staccato (which was announced as a project around the same time Sieranevada went into development and looks to be something we should see in 2020), it appears the director has gone ahead and filmed another project called Malmkrog, which according to the film’s producer Anca Puiu, is filmed mostly in French. Puiu’s latest is inspired by and freely adapted from philosopher Vladimir Solovyov’s book War, Progress and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ.…...
- 1/8/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Anca Puiu is producing through Mandragora and Iadasarecasa.
Cannes Croisette regular Cristi Puiu has wrapped principal photography on his anticipated next film Manor House.
It is Puiu’s first film in French and is set in 1900 on the estate of a wealthy landowner. The guests spend the time luxuriously consuming rich meals and enjoying long conversations about death and the Antichrist, progress and morality.
Manor House sees the director return to the work of the late-19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov which he first used in his experimental acting-workshop film Three Exercises of Interpretation in 2013. The cast is headed...
Cannes Croisette regular Cristi Puiu has wrapped principal photography on his anticipated next film Manor House.
It is Puiu’s first film in French and is set in 1900 on the estate of a wealthy landowner. The guests spend the time luxuriously consuming rich meals and enjoying long conversations about death and the Antichrist, progress and morality.
Manor House sees the director return to the work of the late-19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov which he first used in his experimental acting-workshop film Three Exercises of Interpretation in 2013. The cast is headed...
- 5/12/2018
- by Vladan Petkovic
- ScreenDaily
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