These films suggest the cinema as another place where we can simulate and reflect on life within and surrounded by natural landscapes.
It’s the way the film’s humor specifically subverts its genre’s expected emotional valences that makes it so effective.
The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
Stellan Skarsgård’s large, pensive mug looks thoughtful, if not particularly cerebral, in repose.
The world according to these far-flung shorts will only appear familiar to patrons of the BAMcinématek.
Hans Petter Moland’s humanistic story about xenophobia, man’s persevering spirit, and life’s bitter ironies only stumbles during its final act.
Aberdeen is almost other-worldly, a divine reminder that one must work for love.
A splendid package from First Run Features for a little-seen gem perhaps best savored on a rainy, meditative day.