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Director: Andrew Kötting
Synopsis
Kötting’s first feature since ‘This Filthy Earth’ in 2001 will be a French-language drama – the artist-filmmaker failed to find funding from the conservative British film industry.
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Kötting is an artist who operates on the fascinating margins of British cinema. The director of ‘Gallivant’ and ‘This Filthy Earth’, couldn’t find funding in the UK for this loosely autobiographical drama and so translated it into French, found a French producer and shot it near his second home in the Pyrenees. Continuing the theme of troubled father-son relations that informed his recent, multimedia project ‘In the Wake of a Deadad’, this is an eccentric, out-of-time country-house drama that’s visually more restrained than Kötting’s previous work but hints at his earlier work both in the inventive sound design and inserts of found footage. There's an intriguing sister-brother relationship at its heart, although some of the script is interesting in theory but underwhelming in the execution.Author: Dave Calhoun
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
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- Gary Thomas said...
- Posted on Oct 27 2009 09:58 I thought it was much more engaging and poignant that the review suggests - and the use of found footage and other at first unconnected imagery actually works to enhance the sadness.
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Cast & crew
Director: Andrew Kötting
Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacob Auzanneau, Aurélia Petit, Adélaïde Leroux
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 96 mins
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