Re: Vancouver International Film Festival
Добавлено: 18 сен 2007, 22:47
Про русскую девушку с Украины, Любопытно наверное
Import Export
[IMPOR] Cinema of Our Time
Austria , France, 2007, 135 min, 35mm
In German/Russian/Slovakian with English subtitles
Directed By: Ulrich Seidl
PROD: Ulrich Seidl
SCR: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
CAM: Ed Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler
ED: Christof Schertenleib
Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich
importexport.ulrichseidl.com/en/
Import: Ukrainian nurse and single mother, Olga, wants out of her über-drab existence. First she tries to make it--rather hilariously--in internet porn, then takes off for the promised land of Austria. A trained nurse, she ends up tending house for a typical bourgeois family, and then works as a grunt worker in an old-age nursing home. Export: Paul, one of the least likable characters you'll see in a film this year, fails miserably at being a security guard. He then joins his slobbish stepfather, Michael, the least likable character you'll see in a film this year, installing videogame machines in the Eastern Bloc, eventually ending up in the Ukraine. And never the twain shall meet.
Humiliating set-pieces abound in the latest staggering documentary-fiction hybrid from Austria's bad boy of humanism, Ulrich Seidl. Amazingly, it's absolutely impossible to notice which of the two cameramen (Wolfgang Thaler and Ed Lachman) shot what, so strong is Seidl's hand in the staging and shooting of each of the scenes. As usual, Seidl spent over a year building up trust and rehearsing with his cast, until all boundaries between director and actor dissolved, despite the extreme situations they might find themselves in. Over the course of the film, we discover that both Olga and Paul are struggling to believe in themselves, and that despite what we might assume initially, Import Export is not a film about borders between countries as it is about borders within societies. Light entertainment, this ain't.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Thursday, Sep 27th 9:30pm
Vancity Theatre$9.50
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Wednesday, Oct 3rd 9:00pm
Empire Granville 7 Theatre 4$9.50
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Thursday, Oct 4th 11:30am
Empire Granville 7 Theatre 3$7.50
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Import Export
[IMPOR] Cinema of Our Time
Austria , France, 2007, 135 min, 35mm
In German/Russian/Slovakian with English subtitles
Directed By: Ulrich Seidl
PROD: Ulrich Seidl
SCR: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
CAM: Ed Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler
ED: Christof Schertenleib
Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich
importexport.ulrichseidl.com/en/
Import: Ukrainian nurse and single mother, Olga, wants out of her über-drab existence. First she tries to make it--rather hilariously--in internet porn, then takes off for the promised land of Austria. A trained nurse, she ends up tending house for a typical bourgeois family, and then works as a grunt worker in an old-age nursing home. Export: Paul, one of the least likable characters you'll see in a film this year, fails miserably at being a security guard. He then joins his slobbish stepfather, Michael, the least likable character you'll see in a film this year, installing videogame machines in the Eastern Bloc, eventually ending up in the Ukraine. And never the twain shall meet.
Humiliating set-pieces abound in the latest staggering documentary-fiction hybrid from Austria's bad boy of humanism, Ulrich Seidl. Amazingly, it's absolutely impossible to notice which of the two cameramen (Wolfgang Thaler and Ed Lachman) shot what, so strong is Seidl's hand in the staging and shooting of each of the scenes. As usual, Seidl spent over a year building up trust and rehearsing with his cast, until all boundaries between director and actor dissolved, despite the extreme situations they might find themselves in. Over the course of the film, we discover that both Olga and Paul are struggling to believe in themselves, and that despite what we might assume initially, Import Export is not a film about borders between countries as it is about borders within societies. Light entertainment, this ain't.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Thursday, Sep 27th 9:30pm
Vancity Theatre$9.50
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Wednesday, Oct 3rd 9:00pm
Empire Granville 7 Theatre 4$9.50
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Thursday, Oct 4th 11:30am
Empire Granville 7 Theatre 3$7.50
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Print this Page Email to a Friend Close Window
To purchase tickets by phone, call the VISA Charge-by-Phone line at 1-604-685-8297.
For questions about the VIFF, please call the Starbucks Hotline at 604-683-FILM (3456)
