Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA surf trip from L.A. to Costa Rica is a classic, a free ride, executed by generations of surfers since the 60ies. When five landlocked Austrians get on that very road, it becomes a differen... Tout lireA surf trip from L.A. to Costa Rica is a classic, a free ride, executed by generations of surfers since the 60ies. When five landlocked Austrians get on that very road, it becomes a different thing: A comedy, a philosophical diversion, an investigation of the myth of the surfer d... Tout lireA surf trip from L.A. to Costa Rica is a classic, a free ride, executed by generations of surfers since the 60ies. When five landlocked Austrians get on that very road, it becomes a different thing: A comedy, a philosophical diversion, an investigation of the myth of the surfer dude itself.
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SURFER MAGAZINE (October 2006) If you ever needed reassurance that the rebel heart of surfing is still beating strong under the slow strangulation of rampant mainstreaming, this film is for you. Zen and Zero, which explores the ambiguous metaphors of surfing through the dust-choked eyes of five transplanted Austrians on the quintessential pig-latitude road-trip, swept Best Story and Best Director at this year's X-Dance film festival and continues to garner trophies on its international festival run. Employing a hardboiled Hunter S. Thompson-esquire narration style crossed with a driving, surf-meets-Spaghetti-Western soundtrack (masterfully scored by Herwig Maurer), this soulful 16mm film lets you ride shotgun on a 7,000-mile surfing pilgrimage, complete with flat tires, Federales and happy buzzards feasting on bloated road- kill. Paying tribute to Bruce Brown's 1960 classic, Surf Crazy, the crew of amiable Austrians journeys the length of the Pan-American Highway from Los Angeles to Costa Rica in search of Captain Zero and the zeitgeist of Dudeness.? Funded mostly on the film-makers' credit cards, Zen and Zero is refreshingly free of gratuitous logo shots and forced sponsored-rider antics, proving that surfing is not so much about riding a wave as living on one. - Steve Barilotti
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT (January 2007) Perhaps the best film in the category (TO THE MAXX)--and maybe one of the true hidden treasures of the entire Santa Barbara Film Festival 2007--is "Zen and Zero", a gritty, melodic, surf-stuffed tale of five Austrian surfers looking for philosophical enlightenment and waves on the road from Los Angeles to where the road ends in Costa Rica. Made with a shoestring budget and shot in 16mm, this movie has been taking festival audiences by the storm for the last year.
- drrublov
- 5 mars 2007
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- 260 000 € (estimé)
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