A catholic priest and his lackeys make off with young herder Thor's beloved horses, and he sets off across the rocky Icelandic landscape in search of them. His travels wind between the hardbitten human world and the folkloric one of the Hidden People, who dwell in the rocks and shadows and show themselves on the solstice (Sóley being their representative, who joins Thor's trek). The film is generally characterized as a fantasy story (when remembered at all -- not often!),…
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City World 2012
Dream, myth, and fantasy hover over the natural and unnatural landscapes of suburban Orlando. A child's narration seeks to understand the personal through the universal and historical, in places without people. Instead, the actors here are storm clouds skimming constructed ponds and palms presiding over empty parking lots.
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer 1972
Pure female-gaze sensual beauty, not coming-of-age as initiation into sex so much as to the awakening of one's desires, luminously shot in a sun-dappled pastoralism. There's a lightness that borders frivolity, an odd sense of repercussionless possibility that denies the real risks of growing up, a very French sort of wish-fulfilment, but Nina Companéez's soft-focus fantasy of adolescence delights in this weightlessness. And how often does a film allow these untarnished pleasures to women characters/audiences? Ultimately a film with an…
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Penda's Fen 1974
Sometimes, if you're lucky, the rigidly self-constructed black/white worldview that holds you back may crumble under the weight of all that complexly conflicting information offered by the world itself in all its possibility and uncertainty.
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