Showing the life of a teenager in a family where space, physical and mental, is suffocating, this film achieves a realistic portrait of a gaze that tries to reach beyond. The space is important, in the frame risks, taking the action out of the screen, placing the characters on both sides, cutting the bodies... There are no great dramas, despite the male aggressiveness. But there is a lot of life.
3 Reviews
A movie many can relate to
gjcfbvst5 December 2021
The movie follows the life of a young girl named Venera as she tries to find who she is in a path seemingly paved out for her.
The screenplay with this film is spectacular and really shines during the key moments in the film with characters like Dorina, Gent, and Nol. The writing, along with the acting, displays a very realistic dialogue that gives this films greatest strength.
Looking for Venera will leave you emotionally attached to Venera, her family, and friends after the film ends.
The screenplay with this film is spectacular and really shines during the key moments in the film with characters like Dorina, Gent, and Nol. The writing, along with the acting, displays a very realistic dialogue that gives this films greatest strength.
Looking for Venera will leave you emotionally attached to Venera, her family, and friends after the film ends.
Finding Venera.
morrison-dylan-fan6 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
After glimpsing the interesting social realist Thriller film Ane Is Missing (2020-also reviewed) I looked for a title to watch on the final day of the International Leeds Film Festival. Earlier in the year catching the very good coming of age Drama Stop-Zemlia (2021-also reviewed) at the Glasgow Film Festival,I was intrigued to spot a coming of age Drama playing/ streaming at Leeds, leading to me looking for Venera.
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Feeling restrained from freeing being able to grow into adulthood due to being stuck to living in a home with three generations of her family living all under one roof, Kosovare Krasniqi gives an exquisite debut performance as Venera, whose inability to leave the destroyed by war town she lives in behind, is captured by Krasniqi in her facial language spreading the building frustration across Venera's face, who in the cramped family home battles the rules wrapped round her by the family, in order to grow into adulthood freely expressing herself.
Painting a close-up character study of Venera, debut co-editor (with Stefan Stabenow) /writer/ director Norika Sefa closely works with cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga on drawing an impeccable, rustic textured atmosphere, which lines the crumbling pavements Venera walks down with Dorina (played with rebellious warmth by Rozafa Celaj) in beautiful tracking shots, that reflect Dorina encouraging Venera to grow away from her suffocating confines.
Co-directing the up-coming documentary Tell Me, the screenplay by Sefa crosses quiet growing pains from coming of age, with raw documentary- style Drama, most prominently featured in the excellent, blunt exchanges between the family members, heightened by there being no room for breathing space in the household, as Venera goes looking for freedom.
View on the film:
Feeling restrained from freeing being able to grow into adulthood due to being stuck to living in a home with three generations of her family living all under one roof, Kosovare Krasniqi gives an exquisite debut performance as Venera, whose inability to leave the destroyed by war town she lives in behind, is captured by Krasniqi in her facial language spreading the building frustration across Venera's face, who in the cramped family home battles the rules wrapped round her by the family, in order to grow into adulthood freely expressing herself.
Painting a close-up character study of Venera, debut co-editor (with Stefan Stabenow) /writer/ director Norika Sefa closely works with cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga on drawing an impeccable, rustic textured atmosphere, which lines the crumbling pavements Venera walks down with Dorina (played with rebellious warmth by Rozafa Celaj) in beautiful tracking shots, that reflect Dorina encouraging Venera to grow away from her suffocating confines.
Co-directing the up-coming documentary Tell Me, the screenplay by Sefa crosses quiet growing pains from coming of age, with raw documentary- style Drama, most prominently featured in the excellent, blunt exchanges between the family members, heightened by there being no room for breathing space in the household, as Venera goes looking for freedom.
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