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All posts by Irina Trocan
Recontextualized Images at the IFFR
Irina Trocan reports from the International Film Festival of Rotterdam.
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One”
The beginning of Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One takes us closer to the character of Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate), who went nearly unreferenced in part two. Here, she escapes the palace of the King to explore the world she is sheltered from, and f...
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One”
After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assumin...
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One”
Storytelling and its intricate connections to the real world have always preoccupied Miguel Gomes. Our Beloved Month of August (2008) tracks the obstacle-course production of a film set in a Portuguese village, revealing that there's a lot more drama surroundi...
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Cannes Review: “By Sidney Lumet”
A modest speaker despite his 50-year career, Sidney Lumet was never one to overstate his role as an auteur. In an extensive interview by David Anker, edited by Nancy Buirski into a new episode of the American Masters series, Lumet reveals his insights into fil...
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Cannes Review: “One Floor Below”
It's not a spoiler to say that, in One Floor Below, a young woman living alone suffers a violent death, or that the prime suspect is Vali (Iulian Postelnicu), a married neighbor with whom she was having an affair. Director Radu Muntean delivers all these detai...
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