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3/4 (Ilian Metev)
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent...
3/4 (Ilian Metev)
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent...
- 6/1/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent son Niki (Nikolay Mashalov), and his older sister Mila (Mila Mihova), a piano prodigy preparing for an audition which, should everything work out, could land her a place at a prestigious German conservatory. Mother is nowhere in sight. Mentioned only during a fleeting early exchange between Niki and Mila, she is the family’s missing quarter, an invisible figure whose absence feeds many of the anxieties dad and kids share but never truly discuss.
At once a time signature and an allusion to missing pieces,...
At once a time signature and an allusion to missing pieces,...
- 3/28/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Ilian Metev is the Bulgarian director of the documentary Sofia's Last Ambulance (2012), a film that followed three employees in charge of what was, at the time, the only ambulance in Sofia. Its impact was such that the movie led to the decision to provide the city with two more emergency units. Metev's film, his feature debut, is an example of the intrinsic social function of cinema, a movie without hesitation.3/4 is Metev's second feature film and was awarded with the Pardo d'Oro Cineasti of the Present at the 70th edition of the Locarno Festival. It is an organic drama full of subtlety, in which the photography of Julian Atanassov resembles the fine brush of a painter who, with its warm tones, invites us to enter into the intimacy of a family that will live their last summer together. The “three fourths” are a father (Todor Veltchev), and his daughter...
- 9/17/2017
- MUBI
Ilian Metev’s deliberately small-scale, extremely precise 3/4 puts a trio of non-actors through their fictional paces. The family unit: teen classical pianist Mila (Mila Mihova), preparing for an audition that, if all goes well, will let her continue her studies in Germany; oft-annoying younger brother Niki (Nikolay Mashalov); physicist dad Todor (Todor Veltchev). (Mom is unseen: I’m the umpteenth to note that the title is both a time signature and way of noting that three out of four family members are present.) Mila’s stress over this impending potential pivot point in her life is transferred onto father and son, who react in different ways. […]...
- 9/11/2017
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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