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Bookmark this pageFreedom (2000)
Director: Sharunas Bartas
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From Time Out Film Guide
Insofar as this slow, visually stunning, determinedly 'poetic' film has a story, it concerns two men and a girl who alight on the empty and windswept Moroccan coast after a drug trafficking operation goes wrong. Separately and together they wander the desert, trying to survive. It would be easy to dismiss this almost dialogue-free, enigmatic piece as pretentious nonsense. Certainly, the portentous title suggests that writer/director Bartas has allegorical aspirations with regard to the human condition, but the film simply cannot sustain them. It's also arguable that the pictorialism and miserabilist tone are self-conscious and studied. Disregard this unfortunate touch of the Tarkovskys, however, and you may just succumb to the mesmerising mood, in which case there are epiphanies here - gulls, waves, crabs and flamingos - to savour.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Sharunas Bartas
Producer: Paulo Branco
Cast: Valentinas Masalskis, Fatima Ennaflaoui, Axel Neumann full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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