This was an interesting movie until the director thought it necessary to kill animals.
It began with an interesting reliance on sound without dialogue. Mostly pastoral scenes with older folks - men with gin blossomed noses proliferated. It seemed like this film would continue in the vein of Bela Tarr and other Hungarian directors. Instead, it made a wrong turn.
The director decided that he needed a little more reality. That added reality took the form of animal abuse. Not a new idea: Bunuel abused animals in some of his films, and a neo-realist Italian film whose name escapes me showed villagers torturing a pig as the director filmed it as an amoral and passive journalist.
This film goes even further though. The director actually has at least one animal poisoned for the sake of a large;y absent plot line. But, it would not matter if the plot line was profound. Killing animals for the sake of a move is disgusting.
It began with an interesting reliance on sound without dialogue. Mostly pastoral scenes with older folks - men with gin blossomed noses proliferated. It seemed like this film would continue in the vein of Bela Tarr and other Hungarian directors. Instead, it made a wrong turn.
The director decided that he needed a little more reality. That added reality took the form of animal abuse. Not a new idea: Bunuel abused animals in some of his films, and a neo-realist Italian film whose name escapes me showed villagers torturing a pig as the director filmed it as an amoral and passive journalist.
This film goes even further though. The director actually has at least one animal poisoned for the sake of a large;y absent plot line. But, it would not matter if the plot line was profound. Killing animals for the sake of a move is disgusting.