Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal
It was one of the most hated films of the 2000s, but with the trauma now at a distance, it is time to appreciate M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water for its very real qualities.
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Vår guide til Film fra sør 2020: Fem filmer du må se
Film fra Sør 2020: Vi anbefaler fem titler fra årets digitale festivalprogram. [1]
Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships
Our in-depth look at M. Night Shyamalan’s early films continues with Unbreakable: perhaps the only mainstream Hollywood formalist film, a mass-market movie approached with an unrelenting European art film sensibility.
Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation
A return to this severely under-appreciated film, for its discussion of storytelling, interpretation, film criticism, artificiality, stylisation, interconnectedness – and whether stories can become real.
Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective
As so often in films, Louder Than Bombs is not a dissertation, but a meditation on its themes and motifs. Seen in isolation, words and deeds may seem unexceptional – it is as a whole that Joachim Trier film takes flight.
Nytt liv for død film om levende lik – The Chess Game of Wind er en gjenfødt iransk klassiker
En Visconti-lignende familietragedie gjendiktet som en gotisk giallo, med stearinlysfoto inspirert av Barry Lyndon og et plott verdig Shakespeare, satt til Iran på 1920-tallet, lagd og tapt i Iran på 1970-tallet, og nå… gjenoppstått.
Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)
«Homesick primarily plays on the unspoken. Dialogues are marked by pauses and silent tensions between characters. Most films increase their pace towards a climax, but in Sewitsky the pauses just grow longer and more pregnant.»
En samtale med Eskil Vogt – del 1
Vi har snakket med regissør og manusforfatter Eskil Vogt om arbeidet med Blind, årene som registudent på La fémis i Frankrike, møtet med Joachim Trier, filmforståelse, viktige inspirasjonskilder – og mye annet. [2]
The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?
A Shyamalan enthusiast is struggling mightily to come to terms with the conundrum of The Happening, a split identity film that swings wildly between excellence, rampant quirkiness and unchecked hysteria.
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies
This is the first of three analytical articles on Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic Interstellar. A transcendent cinematic work, whose construction and staging hold a plethora of deeply embedded patterns and structures.
What makes a film festival truly great? Searching for clues at Karlovy Vary’s 50th Anniversary
The festival – of film or anything else – is a powerful modern symbol of freedom and, at its best, an astonishing outpouring of human creativity. It depends on a delicate balancing-act between order and spontaneity, however.
The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc
Before The Visit came M. Night Shyamalan’s early masterpiece The Village. Mismarketed and misunderstood as a horror movie, it has gained a following as a mood piece of pastoral beauty, intense emotion and stylised lyricism.
The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters
After a general evaluation of this M. Night Shyamalan tour de force, the large cast of characters and their relationships are examined, with a special emphasis on subtext and how that is expressed through mise-en-scène.
Genuinely socialist: The Midnight Sun Film Festival
Like many of its own films, the Midnight Sun Film Festival remains true to perhaps the greatest cinematic – and human – aspiration of them all: to express an understanding of, and solidarity with, all the others washed up with us here on this strange little planet of ours.
Den største forbrytelsen (2020)
Den største forbrytelsen gir menneskene bak tallene navn og ansikter. Filmen er nærværende og viktig, samtidig som den hviler på konvensjoner for hvordan andre verdenskrig og Holocaust fremstilles.
Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?
Zeitgeist is replaced by timelessness, chamber music by a symphony. The systematically unpredictable Thelma is Joachim Trier and his team’s most sonorous, lyrical and adventurous film.
The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style
A stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film.