TagMai Zetterling

No other art medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can.

Ingmar Bergman

REVIEWS

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Τhe controversial documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. A retired sicario is narrating his experiences working for the Mexican drug cartels.

Am Himmel Der Tag (Breaking Horizons) – Torino 30

A true contemporary film by Pola Beck which examines real issues that the 20-something generation faces today.

Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21

László Nemes masterfully recreates a Holocaust Inferno where you can’t escape and the only way to survive is through death. Special Jury Prize at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

Ida (2013)

Paweł Pawlikowski tries to express everything that troubled 60s Poland but his aesthetic austere formalism surpasses the content.

Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)

A disturbing surreal erotic horror coming-of-age fairytale of political allegory by Jaromil Jireš marks the end of Czechoslovak New Wave.

TagMai Zetterling

Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Am Himmel Der Tag (Breaking Horizons) – Torino 30

Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21

Ida (2013)

Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)

Antonioni on directing

Pasolini on Hope

Les Amants Réguliers

Chris Marker on time

Żuławski on pleasing the majority