Herz Frank on documentarists

The first rule of a documentary filmmaker is: Have the patience to observe life!

Herz Frank

The Author Vassilis Economou

Freelance film critic and hardcore cinephile.

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REVIEWS

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

The pioneering Czechoslovak science fiction film by Jindrich Polák, based on Stanislaw Lem's The Magellanic Cloud.

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

A different coming-of-age drama directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's poems.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.

Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Ruben Östlund dismantles the nuclear perfect iconic family as the predominant father figure fails to support his socially imposed gender role.

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Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

The Act of Killing (2012)

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen

I don’t like the word success

Je vais au cinéma…

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