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Comedy, Drama, Tallinn 2015, Thessaloniki 2015

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Hrútar (Rams) – Thessaloniki 56

Grímur Hákonarson creates a wry subtle tragicomedy set in the rural Icelandic landscape that feels exceptionally heart-warming while touches the verges of melancholic sarcasm. Golden Alexander at the 56th Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

Making a film is one of the best forms of strip-tease show that exists.

Ingmar Bergman

REVIEWS

Klip (Clip, 2012)

Maja Miloš in her debut film is trying to visualize, through a perverse adolescent love, a without makeup reality that was created in a plastic and fake world.

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.

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

A simple story of a simple anti-hero who tries to fix his almost destined troubled life in Palestine. Debut feature film by Muayad Alayan.

La Vénus à la Fourrure (Venus in Fur, 2013)

Roman Polanski offers a revamped verbose sadomasochistic experience that manipulates Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and his audience.

Il Passaggio della Linea (2007)

The debut documentary film of the Italian director Pietro Marcello is a nocturnal train journey collage through the Italian landscape.

QUOTES

Introduction to Faces by John Cassavetes

Society must chuck its petty prejudices and false idols and if necessary start again from a new beginning where men as well as women can be kind to themselves.

I don’t like the word success

For me, success means attaining something I'd really like. That's success.

Solitudine (1966)

Scenes from the experimental short film Solitudine by the Italian independent director Romano Scavolini.

There has always been violence in art

There has always been violence in art and many psychiatrists believe that it serves as a catharsis rather than a model.

Pasolini on Hope

Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.