For those who found too much fantasy in “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” depiction of S&m and its painful, cathartic pleasures, “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants” arrives as a welcome corrective. Though it doesn’t go in for explicit shock therapy, this inky comedy about a straitlaced widower who finds an alternative way to harness his grief — so to speak — is bracing for the empathetic psychological complexity it brings to oft-mistreated subject matter. Gradually carving out a tender, conflicted misfit romance from lurid beginnings, and eventually finding joy in some very dark corners, Finnish writer-director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää maintains a peculiar tonal balance to the end of his irresistibly titled third feature. The result is audacious enough to whip up interest on the festival circuit following its Cannes premiere, but not so extreme as to discourage distributors with singular tastes of their own.
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- 6/13/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Danish director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm took home the Gothenburg Film Festival’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film for drama In Your Arms.
The coveted award comes with the world’s biggest festival cash prize of 1 million Sek ($120,000).
At the gala event on Saturday evening, Copenhagen-based Sahlstrom also won the Fipresci award for his film about a nurse who travels with a terminally ill man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
The jury said of Sahlstrom’s film: “The award goes to a film, that with honest sensitivity, brings up the questions: when is life worth living? When is life not worth living?
“Told in a pure language, with poetic moments, and with an acting that is vibrating of human authenticity. It is a film that ends with death - but also with life, love and hope.”
The Dragon Award for best documentary went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up...
The coveted award comes with the world’s biggest festival cash prize of 1 million Sek ($120,000).
At the gala event on Saturday evening, Copenhagen-based Sahlstrom also won the Fipresci award for his film about a nurse who travels with a terminally ill man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
The jury said of Sahlstrom’s film: “The award goes to a film, that with honest sensitivity, brings up the questions: when is life worth living? When is life not worth living?
“Told in a pure language, with poetic moments, and with an acting that is vibrating of human authenticity. It is a film that ends with death - but also with life, love and hope.”
The Dragon Award for best documentary went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up...
- 2/1/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The plot synopsis for J.-P. Valkeapää’s contemporary road movie They Have Escaped reads like a clichéd story about teenage runaways, but the trailer suggests something deeper, surreal and far more disturbing. They Have Escaped is hopefully another fine work from a director who is quickly emerging as one of Finland’s brightest young talents. The trailer manages to maximize the impact of cinematographer Pietari Peltola’s visuals and the sound and heterogeneous music selection, also helps in peeking my interest. For more info, head over to the Tiff site. Here’s the trailer. Enjoy!
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- 8/27/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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