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Kazakhstan: Where Filmmakers have Humor

by Pier Marton | Dec 2, 2010 | Asia, Film, Humor, Review

My short review: TULPAN: Strong winds, birth and death will keep us honest. Add to it the stark steppes of Kazakhstan and a camera that loves its actors (and its animals), and you have a rich and intimate portrayal of Kazakh country life that will revive most wearied...

Carlos, The Film

by Pier Marton | Nov 25, 2010 | Antisemitism, Film, France, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Review

My short review: Killers of all kinds, intrigues and spies have always made good film (& pulp fiction) material. The fact that is this based on real events gives this film a great advantage. The situation here though is complex for as much as we need drama, we...

Another Winner at SLIFF ’10 – THIS Wed/Thur

by Pier Marton | Nov 16, 2010 | Care, Film, Human Rights, Politics, Review, Roma, STL

Another short review. IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE The past has its weight: twenty four years of dictatorship cannot but leave their mark on a people and their descendants. While Romanian filmmakers have been garnering international awards, the films have often...

’10 St. Louis Internation Film Festival (SLIFF): Buzz02

by Pier Marton | Nov 9, 2010 | Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Human Rights, Humor, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, Travel

More short reviews on their way! Fiction Welcome Vengeance Documentary Summer Pasture Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Another highlight at the St. Louis International Film Festival

by Pier Marton | Nov 9, 2010 | Asia, Care, Death, Eco, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Site, STL, Travel

At the SLIFF – my short review: WELCOME Like all worthwhile duties, opening up to a stranger or a foreigner requires an effort. This French film embraces with a quiet passion the struggles of a renewed multi-ethnic Europe to come to terms with some of the changes. As...

The Army of Crime/L’Armée du Crime

by Pier Marton | Oct 18, 2010 | Antisemitism, Ego, Film, France, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Idées, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, STL, Women

My short review: Once upon a time and yet this is NOT fiction, some individuals gave their lives so that we could attempt to live. A tight script recounts in small troubling vignettes the sacrifice of twenty three of them, and two hours seems too short of a time frame...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus