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6.2/10   135 votes
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Writer:
Vimukthi Jayasundara (writer)
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Release Date:
25 January 2006 (France) more
Genre:
Drama
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
On DVD: "The Forsaken Land," "Team Picture"
 (From IFC. 16 September 2008, 7:57 AM, PDT)

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visually stunning...but don't expect plot more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La terre abandonnée (France)
The Forsaken Land (USA)
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Runtime:
108 min | Argentina:107 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | France:107 min
Country:
France | Sri Lanka
Language:
Sinhala
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Brazil:18 | Argentina:13
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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
visually stunning...but don't expect plot, 12 February 2007
8/10
Author: amatus from Canada

I watched this movie at the Toronto International Film Festival a few years ago. Don't expect to find a cohesive plot, but just sit back and let the camera-work wash over your senses. Long, beautiful, meditative, Tarkovsky-like takes that leave you marvelling at their artistry. Not long into the movie, I gave up trying to understand the plot, and instead just allowed myself to be swept along in its tide of visual beauty.

In the Q&A with the director after the screening, he couldn't or wouldn't shed light on the meaning/plot of the film, saying instead that it is up to each of us to get our own meaning. Commenting on his cinematography and obscure plot line, I asked the director whether he was influenced by Tarkovsky. He replied: 'But of course. Tarkovsky is our godfather'. Nuff said.

Rent/buy this movie and watch it on the biggest screen you can find. Don't try to understand the incomprehensible, but allow yourself, like I did, to shrug off the shackles of reason and intellect and float along a different stream of consciousness, one of astounding visual beauty.

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