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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
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Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people... Read allCollection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and ... Read allCollection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
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  • Directors
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
    • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
    • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
  • Writers
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
    • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
    • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
  • Stars
    • Amit Rayani
    • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • Mark Long
  • Directors
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
    • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
    • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
  • Writers
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
    • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
    • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
  • Stars
    • Amit Rayani
    • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • Mark Long
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    Amit Rayani
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    • (as Amit Arroz)
    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Mark Long
    • Man (segment "About Time 2")
    Rudolf Hrusínský
    Rudolf Hrusínský
    • (segment "One Moment")
    • (archive footage)
    Tarun Bedi
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Maria Ludovica Bernardi
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Chiara Mastalli
    Chiara Mastalli
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Jabedul Azad
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Zohirul Azad
    • (segment "Histoire d'eaux")
    Alexandra Staden
    Alexandra Staden
    • Young Woman (segment "About Time 2")
    Dominic West
    Dominic West
    • Young Man (segment "About Time 2")
    Howard Goorney
    • Old Man (segment "About Time 2")
    Maria Charles
    • Old Woman (segment "About Time 2")
    Daniel Tookey
    • Young Boy 1 (segment "About Time 2")
    George Keane
    • Young Boy 2 (segment "About Time 2")
    Ildikó Bánsági
    Ildikó Bánsági
    • (segment "Ten Minutes After")
    Gábor Máté
    Gábor Máté
    • (segment "Ten Minutes After")
    Jean-Luc Nancy
    • (segment "Vers Nancy")
    • Directors
      • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
      • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
      • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
    • Writers
      • Bernardo Bertolucci(segment Histoire d'eaux)
      • Mike Figgis(segment About Time 2)
      • Claire Denis(segment Vers Nancy)
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    6/10
    Eight famous filmmakers provide shorts, each exactly 10 minutes long, dealing with the passage of time
    At the turn of the millennium, the producer Nicolas McClintock commissioned short films from a number of prominent auteurs for an anthology project. The requirement was that each short be precisely 10 minutes long, and they all had to deal with the passage of time in some way. The project was called "Ten Minutes Older" and ultimately two films were compiled from the submissions, subtitled "The Trumpet" and "The Cello", respectively.

    "The Cello" contains eight shorts. It starts off strong with Bernardo Bertolucci's "Histoire d'eaux", which I don't spoil here, but I can say that it juxtaposes a tale of an illegal Indian immigrant in Italy with ancient Hindu mythology to memorable effect. It is followed by Mike Figgis' "About Time 2" that follows that director's film TIMECODE in splitting the screen into four video-camera shots that run concurrently. While some of the imagery is thought-provoking, ultimately this feels rather muddled and a failed experiment, the one truly weak film here.

    For this project that is meant to be a meditation on time, some of the contributors used their shorts to depict much longer spans of time than just the ten minutes they were allotted. That is especially the case with Jiri Menzel's "One Moment". Menzel assembled his short from carefully chosen footage of the great Czech actor Rudolf Husinsky (1920-1994), whose career spanned over half a century. Thus in 10 minutes we see Husinsky go from a fit and dashing young man to a pudgy middle-age guy wistful for the past, and then ultimately a wizened elderly person near death. This meditation is very poignant, but it is also given an element of humour.

    Volker Schlöndorff similarly wanted to tackle great issues of existence. A scene at a German holiday camp, where the family is initially enjoying some barbecue outside their caravan, turns violent as their daughter begins a drinking binge and the space is invaded by some skinheads. With St. Augustine's meditation on time read in voice-over, and the camera often representing the view of the mosquitos that plague this camping spot, the film ultimately suggests that from the perspective of eternity even human beings may be as insignificant as insects.

    Claire Denis short "Vers Nancy" has a punning title. Set on a train, it might refer to being bound for the city of Nancy. However, the dialogue consists of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy speaking to the woman seated across from him (Ana Samardzija) about the quality of being a foreigner or outsider. Ten minutes of dense philosophical dialogue may turn some people off (and those who don't speak French, beware: it is abridged almost to unintelligibility in DVD subtitles), but I enjoyed it. Plus, with this dialogue and Samardzija's clothes, this short film by Denis is surely an homage to Jean-Luc Godard's work of the 1960s, especially VIVRE SA VIE where Anna Karina chats in a cafe with a philosopher.

    Jean-Luc Godard is in fact present here with "Dans le noir du temps". Godard has taken on quite a dismal outlook in his old age, and he subdivides his short into sections titled "The last minutes of..." that consist of visually striking scenes from his works of the 1960s and 1990s. Sure, Godard and his partner Anne-Marie Mieville might be criticized for simply submitting 10 minutes of footage many cinephiles had already seen before, but the framing makes it worth revisiting these classic moments.

    Istvan Szabo's "Ten Minutes After" shows a woman setting the table for the celebration of her wedding anniversary, but after her husband comes up drunk and they struggle, she accidentally stabs him and is arrested. The Hungarian director thus uses his allotted time to show just how brutally one's life can be turned upside down in the space of just 10 minutes. The woman's downfall is depicted in a patently unrealistic way, pure Brechtian alienation.

    Finally, Michael Radford's "Addicted to the Stars" depicts an astronaut (a young Daniel Craig well before he became world famous as James Bond) returning to Earth after a mission far away. Due to the effects of relativity, only 10 minutes have passed for him, but a whole century has gone by on Earth. If you love the distinct visual appearance of British sci-fi like Red Dwarf or Dr. Who -- which, let's fact it, ultimately goes back to tiny production budgets -- you'll like Radford's distinctly British view of the future.

    Though the shorts here are of variable quality, they all held my attention and were generally a moving experience. The audience for this kind of film is a limited one, namely cinephiles who enjoy the often challenging works of auteur filmmakers, but if that describes you, then I'd recommend checking this out. Furthermore, I find that "The Cello" is overall better than "The Trumpet".
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      • June 26, 2003 (Germany)
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      • London, England, UK
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      • Matador Pictures
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