Stars: Marta Krol, Marcin Sztabinski, Marieta Zukowska, Janusz Chabior, Olaf Marchwicki | Written and Directed by Piotr Ryczko
Horror has always been impressive at how it handles mental health in its movies and shows. Most recently movies like The Babadook and Hereditary have shown how peoples mental health has deteriorated after a trauma in their life. And I believe in both movies, and several others in the genre, this is handled extremely well. I Am Ren might not explain or show any trauma immediately but it does go down a similar route to these films, albeit in a more sci-fi orientated way.
The main science fiction element of the film comes from the lead characters belief that she is an android. As expected this isn’t simple. No-one around her seems to agree with her, including her husband and her son. Is he the victim in an abusive relationship, are situations...
Horror has always been impressive at how it handles mental health in its movies and shows. Most recently movies like The Babadook and Hereditary have shown how peoples mental health has deteriorated after a trauma in their life. And I believe in both movies, and several others in the genre, this is handled extremely well. I Am Ren might not explain or show any trauma immediately but it does go down a similar route to these films, albeit in a more sci-fi orientated way.
The main science fiction element of the film comes from the lead characters belief that she is an android. As expected this isn’t simple. No-one around her seems to agree with her, including her husband and her son. Is he the victim in an abusive relationship, are situations...
- 10/10/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Rural Russian film takes top prize at Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
- 7/29/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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