Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Doesn't lean too hard on its allegory of spectatorship, although it is certainly in there (e.g. in the very frontal close-ups, as if we as spectators are also being looked at—everyone is a spectator, not just us in the audience, but also the characters, both in the narrative and in the mise en scène). More than that, this is a film about empathy (I'm thinking of the last scene and the needle drop—one person turning off the radio because they…
A film about overcoming (physical) distances:
between Belgium and Romania;
between Jette and Vilvoorde;
between family, friends and strangers;
between nature and 'civilization';
between words and things;
between a researcher and their subject;
between the microscopic and what is visible to the human eye;
between figures in the frame;
between the camera and the world;
between the perceptible and the imperceptible.