Seeing the credits fade on the very interesting
The Mushroom Speaks (2021-also reviewed) I decided to continue my viewing of the WOW Film Festival line-up, by making it a double bill and meeting Liborio.
View on the film:
Joining the other followers by walking up the mountain, co-writer (with Pablo Arellano) Nino Martinez Sosa makes his feature film directing debut by closely working with cinematographer Oscar Duran In attempting to build a sense of realism, with the extensive use of filming in natural light.
Whilst the ambition is clear, the final result sheds no light at all, with the decision to shoot in real locations at night with only real fire about a mile away offering any natural light, making it near impossible to make out what is taking place.
Not helping matters at all, the screenplay by Sosa and Arellano take the absorbing real life events of Papa Liborio, and make them irritatingly vague, with no real character or plot outline being given for the followers or Liborio himself.
View on the film:
Joining the other followers by walking up the mountain, co-writer (with Pablo Arellano) Nino Martinez Sosa makes his feature film directing debut by closely working with cinematographer Oscar Duran In attempting to build a sense of realism, with the extensive use of filming in natural light.
Whilst the ambition is clear, the final result sheds no light at all, with the decision to shoot in real locations at night with only real fire about a mile away offering any natural light, making it near impossible to make out what is taking place.
Not helping matters at all, the screenplay by Sosa and Arellano take the absorbing real life events of Papa Liborio, and make them irritatingly vague, with no real character or plot outline being given for the followers or Liborio himself.