40 films, dark circles like after a night of drinking at Berghain. Many great and shocking films that still accompany my dreams today, 2 years after this 70th Berlinale. One of those films surprised me the most because it was different, and provocative - without being intrusive.
RIZI begins with a minute-long shot of a man looking out the window and watching the rain. The reflection of the glass front gives us an impression of what is happening. It's raining, the wind plays with the trees as if they were an orchestra. Very little happens and at the same time a lot. We feel the loneliness and the need for love in such a gentle yet impressive way that the anxiety is at the same time the liberation.
The courage with which director Tsai Ming-Liang faces us is rewarded. RIZI manages without dialogue. 2 hours of film, told solely through facial expressions and gestures, embedded in the city life of Bangkok. Despite or perhaps because of the lack of dialogue, we understand the emotional life of our main character very well. The viewer becomes an emotional observer of two men who is looking for love and security, without judging. Two people who are looking for belonging in such a complex, fast and complicated world. A night in which two people can escape their every day worries.
RIZI is a film that surprised and gripped me because it stimulated my imagination and tore me out of the daily world for two hours without dialogue.
RIZI begins with a minute-long shot of a man looking out the window and watching the rain. The reflection of the glass front gives us an impression of what is happening. It's raining, the wind plays with the trees as if they were an orchestra. Very little happens and at the same time a lot. We feel the loneliness and the need for love in such a gentle yet impressive way that the anxiety is at the same time the liberation.
The courage with which director Tsai Ming-Liang faces us is rewarded. RIZI manages without dialogue. 2 hours of film, told solely through facial expressions and gestures, embedded in the city life of Bangkok. Despite or perhaps because of the lack of dialogue, we understand the emotional life of our main character very well. The viewer becomes an emotional observer of two men who is looking for love and security, without judging. Two people who are looking for belonging in such a complex, fast and complicated world. A night in which two people can escape their every day worries.
RIZI is a film that surprised and gripped me because it stimulated my imagination and tore me out of the daily world for two hours without dialogue.