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DVD Release: The Man From London

23 December 2011 11:35 AM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »

DVD Release Date: Jan. 10, 2012

Price: DVD $29.99

Studio: Zeitgeist

Tilda Swinton gets involved in a mystery concerning her husband in The Man From London.

Tilda Swinton (Orlando) stars in the 2007 movie The Man From London, an acclaimed crime mystery from arthouse-friendly Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr (Satantango).

In the film, lonely railway worker Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) leads a simple, humdrum life with his high-strung wife (Swinton) and teenage daughter (Erika Bok) at the edge of the sea. Maloin barely notices the world around him and has already accepted its slow and inevitable deterioration. His inner life is suddenly thrown into chaos after he stumbles upon a deadly business transaction — that leaves him with a money-stuffed suitcase and a guilty conscience for a crime he didnʼt commit.

Based on a novel by the Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon (The Disappearance of Odile), The Man From London enjoyed limited play in theaters and film festivals around the world, »

- Laurence

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[Tiff Review] Alois Nebel

16 September 2011 8:42 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

Alois Nebel, the first feature film of director Tomáš Luňák, is a moody black-and-white animated film that diverts from the conventional rules of film form and narrative. It is based off of the Czech graphic novel trilogy, written by Jaroslav Rudiš and illustrated by Jaromír 99. The clarity of plot and the viewers’ understanding of the characters have been compromised for film’s distinct style and unusual storytelling, which may not have helped Alois Nebel to achieve great results.

Those who have knowledge of the history of Czechoslovakia of the twentieth century will have a better understanding of this film’s setting and its relationship to the storylines. Alois Nebel is set in the Czech-Polish border Sudetenland in 1989, when the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia fell. The life of Alois Nebel (Miroslav Krobot), a middle-aged train dispatcher, correlates to this setting. He is a loner who is very comfortable with his routine life. »

- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)

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Berlinale Day 3: Zuzana Liová’s ‘House’

12 February 2011 4:10 PM, PST | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »

Dom (House, Zuzana Liová, 2011) tells the story of a family in a small Czech town. Imrich wanted to give his daughters a good start in life by building them each a house on the same land as the family home. His elder daughter Jana spoiled his plans by marrying an unsuitable man and having children too early, so he has disowned her: when the film begins, Imrich is focusing his efforts on completing a house for his younger daughter, Eva. Although Eva is forced to help him build, she is by no means enthusiastic about her father’s project. Now in her last year of high school, Eva dreams of escaping this drab, sleepy backwater to work as an au pair in London. When her father thwarts her plan for freedom, Eva finds consolation in a relationship with a shy, sensitive older man. Unfortunately, this man turns out to be married… »

- Alison Frank

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