Early in the morning, the Directors’ Fortnight section hosted the international premiere to Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3. Starring a broken up family of the father (Humberto De Vargas), mother (Sara Bessio) and late teens daughter (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy), the film navigates between solitudes, and post break-up connections. Put on the map via 25 Watts (2003) and then the Un Certain Regard selected Whisky (2004), Stoll took a bit of a break to produce and put energy towards the more experimental Hiroshima, before returning to a story that was originally created by him and Juan Pablo Rebella. The majority of the Q&A was in Spanish/French, but in a nutshell, the Uruguayan filmmaker discussed a.) the type of comedies he tries to make – more in the vein of those that make you think and smile rather than burst out laughing, b.) he mentioned the their cinema has started receiving support in terms of funding about five years back,...
- 5/21/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
3 – Pablo Stoll Ward
Buzz: After attaining international acclaim with his break out pair of films (25 Watts and Whisky) alongside Juan Pablo Rebella, helmer Pablo Stoll understandably had a rebirth of sorts. He focused on producing oeuvres from the next wave of talents from his native Uruguay and worked on a tribute to Rebella with his first solo, experimental directing debut in Hiroshima (which played at Tiff in 2009). The filmmaker is back into a familiar terrain with this Latin American-European co-production number that premiered in his native country last month.
Gist: In the longstanding tradition of films featuring household occupants each on his or her pathway, Ana (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy), an enterprising teenager, is living through a decisive moment in her life. Her mother, Graciela (Sara Bessio), seems at a turning point as well. For Rodolfo, Ana’s father and Graciela’s ex-husband, domestic life in the home of his second wife,...
Buzz: After attaining international acclaim with his break out pair of films (25 Watts and Whisky) alongside Juan Pablo Rebella, helmer Pablo Stoll understandably had a rebirth of sorts. He focused on producing oeuvres from the next wave of talents from his native Uruguay and worked on a tribute to Rebella with his first solo, experimental directing debut in Hiroshima (which played at Tiff in 2009). The filmmaker is back into a familiar terrain with this Latin American-European co-production number that premiered in his native country last month.
Gist: In the longstanding tradition of films featuring household occupants each on his or her pathway, Ana (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy), an enterprising teenager, is living through a decisive moment in her life. Her mother, Graciela (Sara Bessio), seems at a turning point as well. For Rodolfo, Ana’s father and Graciela’s ex-husband, domestic life in the home of his second wife,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The German sales co. known for providing the fest circuit and art-house plexes with subtitled stuff from around the globe will set fire to the Director's Fortnight section this year. If I'm counting right, the Match Factory supply the section with a trio of titles (five total in the fest) including the much discussed on this site Cam Archer's sophomore feature, and they nabbed a Main Comp spot for one of the most celebrated directors of the decade in Apichatpong Weerasethakul latest – a sort of “ghost” story. - The German sales co. known for providing the fest circuit and art-house plexes with subtitled stuff from around the globe will set fire to the Director's Fortnight section this year. If I'm counting right, The Match Factory supply the fest with a five titles including The Light Thief (see pic above), The City Below, the including the much discussed...
- 5/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The German sales co. known for providing the fest circuit and art-house plexes with subtitled stuff from around the globe will set fire to the Director's Fortnight section this year. If I'm counting right, The Match Factory supply the fest with a five titles including The Light Thief (see pic above), The City Below, the including the much discussed on this site Cam Archer's sophomore feature, and they nabbed a Main Comp spot for one of the most celebrated directors of the decade in Apichatpong Weerasethakul latest – a sort of “ghost” story. Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen) by Christoffer Boe - Completed Shit Year by Cam Archer - Completed The City Below (Unter Dir Die Stadt) by Christoph HOCHHÄUSLER - Completed The Light Thief by Aktan Arym Kubat - Completed Uncle Boonmee Who Nn Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chaat) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul -...
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Before going into my Women Directors Tracking which I have vowed to continue until women reach a parity with men in the film business and Latino Directors groove, I want to thank Howard Feinstein for watching the most obscure films of Rotterdam to find the jewels! Scratching Below the Surface for Some Rotterdam Fest Gems - indieWIRE. Kudos! I wish I could have seen these!
Howard spotted this one: "A young woman named Rusudan Pirveli brought to the 'Bright Future' section Susa, another story of hard financial times. 'The Lost Generation' is represented here by the absent father of an adolescent boy, who, working for his mother, sells bootleg vodka in bottles. Sadly, he lives under the delusion that dad’s return would ease his and his mom’s hardship. Like Koguashvili, Pirveli eschews unnecessary authorial intervention: Both directors understand all too well that they are living amidst powerful,...
Howard spotted this one: "A young woman named Rusudan Pirveli brought to the 'Bright Future' section Susa, another story of hard financial times. 'The Lost Generation' is represented here by the absent father of an adolescent boy, who, working for his mother, sells bootleg vodka in bottles. Sadly, he lives under the delusion that dad’s return would ease his and his mom’s hardship. Like Koguashvili, Pirveli eschews unnecessary authorial intervention: Both directors understand all too well that they are living amidst powerful,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
A tribute to his former collaborator, the late Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll's maiden solo flight has little chance of seeing major international theatrical distribution, but it remains a welcomed experimental film that might be mum on dialogue, but heavy on soundtrack... - Part two of two back to back offerings in Uruguayan cinema, there are some people who when decide to move away from society, they do so by not crawling into a ball, but by severing contact, communication in gradual, somewhat obscure steps. A tribute to his former collaborator, the late Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll's maiden solo flight has little chance of seeing major international theatrical distribution, but it remains a welcomed experimental film that might be mum on dialogue, but heavy on soundtrack and ideas of isolation and disbanding from the family (the filmmaker employs his own members) – actual home movies intelligently inserted in this discourse.
- 11/30/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
- I've come up with a magical number of 30 films that I'll be covering for the fest (you might have noticed the Tiff Picks countdown over the past couple of weeks), when in fact that, the number of films I hope to catch a whopping 44! So I'm going to break this down in three steps, my top three suggestions going into the fest blindly (kind of what Toronto Star's Peter Howell does annually - read here), a top 10 films that I've caught prior to Tiff that are worth seeing whether you attend the fest or not, followed by a basic recap. My top three: Samuel Maoz's LebanonInvited to compete at Venice (reviews should be arriving sometime today), the word on this pic is that it could be even more poignant than last year's Waltz with Bashir. This is told from the Pov of a tank crew - not really
- 9/8/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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