1
newsletter #7 All good things must come to an end! So they say. Our presence here at Kaunas International Film Festival 2012 was an eye opener. Among many other things, we´ve discovered a vibrant film com- munity in Lithuania full of potential and energy. But before our troops put “down their weapons” here is our final newsletter, where we´ve reviewed the Austrian thriller Spain; a dysfunctional French family on the run in Beast Paradise, and we met one of Polands most exciting new filmmakers, To- masz Wasilewski. Spain /Spain/joins a long line of films where the seem- ingly separate destinies of its characters are tied together in the hope that some profound state- ments might wait at the end of the process. Luck- ily the number of characters is kept to a minimum this time since even now the structure almost suf- focates the drama. READ MORE Review by Sami Pöyry (Finland) In The Bedroom Interview by Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania) Yevgeny Pashkevich new film, Latvia´s 2012 Os- car entry, talks about his first feature after a 23 years break, telling us three stories from diffe- rent periods, connected by character of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam. READ MORE Beast Paradise Review by Ugne. Gudz(inskaite. (Lithuania) Estelle Larrivaz’s first feature “/Beast Paradise/” (“/ Le Paradis des bêtes/”) combines family drama with thriller elements. Dominique (Stefano Cassetti), an emotionally unstable man, beats his own wife, Cathy (Géraldine Pailhas), and decides to leaves his own pet shop in France to flee to Switzerland with his children Clarisse (Valentine Klingberg) and Ferdinand (Léon Brachet). While Cathy, after recov- ering in hospital, tries to find a trace of her family, Dominique multiplies his attempts to settle a new life in skiing resort, telling the children his own inter- pretation of the story. READ MORE Kaunas international Film Festival 2012

Nisimazine Kaunas #7

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

Editor: Fernando Vasquez (Portugal); Location manager: Aistė Račaitytė (Lithuania); Designer: Tiago Dias (Portugal); Writers: Zowi Vermeire (Holland),Ugne Cesnaviciute (Lithuania), Vaidė Legotaitė (Lithuania),Sami Pöyry (Finland), Donata Juskelyte (Lithuania); Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania),Saulius Kovalskas (Lithuania)

Citation preview

Page 1: Nisimazine Kaunas #7

newsletter #7

All good things must come to an end! So they say.Our presence here at Kaunas International Film Festival 2012 was an eye opener. Among many other things, we´ve discovered a vibrant film com-munity in Lithuania full of potential and energy. But before our troops put “down their weapons” here is our final newsletter, where we´ve reviewed the Austrian thriller Spain; a dysfunctional French family on the run in Beast Paradise, and we met one of Polands most exciting new filmmakers, To-masz Wasilewski.

Spain

/Spain/joins a long line of films where the seem-ingly separate destinies of its characters are tied together in the hope that some profound state-ments might wait at the end of the process. Luck-ily the number of characters is kept to a minimum this time since even now the structure almost suf-focates the drama. READ MORE

Review by Sami Pöyry (Finland)

In The Bedroom

Interview by Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania)Yevgeny Pashkevich new film, Latvia´s 2012 Os-car entry, talks about his first feature after a 23 years break, telling us three stories from diffe-rent periods, connected by character of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam. READ MOREBeast Paradise

Review by Ugne. Gudz(inskaite. (Lithuania)Estelle Larrivaz’s first feature “/Beast Paradise/” (“/Le Paradis des bêtes/”) combines family drama with thriller elements. Dominique (Stefano Cassetti), an emotionally unstable man, beats his own wife, Cathy (Géraldine Pailhas), and decides to leaves his own pet shop in France to flee to Switzerland with his children Clarisse (Valentine Klingberg) and Ferdinand (Léon Brachet). While Cathy, after recov-ering in hospital, tries to find a trace of her family, Dominique multiplies his attempts to settle a new life in skiing resort, telling the children his own inter-pretation of the story. READ MORE

Kaunas international Film Festival 2012