LIMELIGHT
A Blast Syllas Tzoumerkas
Greece/Germany/ Netherlands, 2014 | colour, DCP, 83 min, Greek/English
Prod: Maria Drandaki, Titus Kreyenberg, Ellen Havenith, Jeroen Beker | Prod Comp: Homemade Films, unafilm, PRPL, Bastide Films | Sc: Syllas Tzoumerkas, Youla Boudali | Cam: Pantelis Mantzanas | Ed: Kathrin Dietzel | Prod Des: Elli Papageorgakopoulou | Sound Des: Marco Vermaas, Dimitris Kanellopoulos | Music: drog_A_tek | With: Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Themis Bazaka, Yorgos Biniaris, Makis Papadimitriou | Sales: Homemade Films | Distr NL: De Filmfreak Distributie | www.ablastfilm.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 23-1 20:00 Doelen JZ [d.s.] Sat 24-1 10:00 Pathé 1 [d.s.] Sun 25-1 22:30 Oude Luxor [d.s.] Fri 30-1 19:00 Doelen WBZ [d.s.] Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 27-1 20:00 LV3 [e.s.]
The economic crisis is never far away in contemporary Greek cinema. Not surprisingly: the country has been hit extremely hard. Where other films often resort to metaphor, A Blast is explicit in its handling of the consequences of the financial malaise. Maria (Angeliki Papoulia, seen previously in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Alps) puts her children in the car, drops them with her sister and leaves. What she is running from and what her plan is gradually become clear. The film shows nonchronologically that Maria’s seemingly pleasant life is built on sand. Her mother has a huge tax debt, her brother-in-law turns out to be a neoNazi and even her loving husband has skeletons in his closet. The desperate rage with which Maria turns her life upside down is constantly palpable in this energetic second feature by Syllas Tzoumerkas. Intense sex scenes and emotional explosions make A Blast a daring, unpredictable drama.
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Eden Mia Hansen-Løve
France, 2014 | colour, DCP, 131 min, French/English Prod: Charles Gillibert | Prod Comp: CG Cinema | Sc: Mia Hansen-Løve, Sven Hansen-Løve | Cam: Denis Lenoir | Ed: Marion Monnier | Prod Des: Anna Falguères | Sound Des: Vincent Vatoux, Damien Tronchot, Caroline Reynaud | Music: Daft Punk, Joe | With: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Laura Smet, Vincent Lacoste, Vincent Macaigne, Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani | Sales: Kinology | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Fri 23-1 21:45 Pathé 2 Sat 24-1 19:00 Doelen WBZ Thu 29-1 18:30 Pathé 5 Sat 31-1 12:45 Pathé 1
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Paris 1992: literature student Paul (Félix de Givry) dreams of a career as a DJ. With his friend Stan, he forms the DJ duo Cheers, but their electronic dance music has little success. Thomas and Guy-Man of Daft Punk, on the other hand, are a very different story – and Paul keeps running into them at underground parties. Daft Punk go on to achieve worldwide success. Later, Paul becomes depressed, which is not helped by the amount of cocaine he is taking. Director Mia Hansen-Løve, who based the story on the life of her brother and co-screenwriter DJ Sven Love, shows what becomes of Paul over the course of twenty years; his path from partygoer to organising DJ; how the euphoria of drugs, music and love can very easily degenerate into the disillusionment of financial setbacks, drug addiction and depression. Eden gives a truthful, at times poignant impression of two decades of garage in the French club scene – naturally, with lots of music.
44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
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