The great French director Eric Rohmer died 10 years ago, but his spirit lives on in other filmmakers. There are artists at work in the Rohmer tradition who, at moments, have evoked his sublime conversational ardor — and if you want to know what I mean, just watch Eugène Green’s “La Sapienza.” Few in the U.S. saw this 2014 release, but it’s a beguiling and rapturous movie. Green brought together four characters in Italy and had them ruminate about love, marriage, sickness, healing, ghosts, light, the mystic wonders of Roman Baroque architecture, and death, all set against landscapes pristine enough to suggest that the earth is still an Eden if only we’d wake up to it. At the end, two characters, each staring directly into the camera, arrived at a moment of truth, and it was as if they were talking to each other, to us, and to God.
- 10/11/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Atarrabi & Mikelats
Us born French filmmaker Eugène Green’s eighth feature will be Atarrabi & Mikelats, produced by Julien Naveau of Noodles Production and the Dardennes are onboard as well. Green’s cast will be mostly newcomers, including Saia and Lukas Hiriat as the titular leads plus Ainara Leemans, Thierry Biscary and Pablo Lasa. Green will be reuniting with his Dp Raphael O’Byrne. Green’s 2003 title The Living World premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, and he’s competed three times for the Golden Leopard in Locarno – 2007’s omnibus Memories, 2009’s The Portuguese Nun and 2014’s La Sapienza.…...
Us born French filmmaker Eugène Green’s eighth feature will be Atarrabi & Mikelats, produced by Julien Naveau of Noodles Production and the Dardennes are onboard as well. Green’s cast will be mostly newcomers, including Saia and Lukas Hiriat as the titular leads plus Ainara Leemans, Thierry Biscary and Pablo Lasa. Green will be reuniting with his Dp Raphael O’Byrne. Green’s 2003 title The Living World premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, and he’s competed three times for the Golden Leopard in Locarno – 2007’s omnibus Memories, 2009’s The Portuguese Nun and 2014’s La Sapienza.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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