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Film, TFF 32 - 2014, Torino Film Festival

“Tôi quên rôi – I forgot!” di Eduardo Williams e “La Huella en la niebla” di Emiliano Grieco

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Spazio ai giovani promettenti del panorama internazionale

Con Tôi quên rôi –I forgot, il giovane regista argentino Eduardo Williams propone questa volta un lavoro più lungo del suo precedente cortometraggio: ventisei minuti in cui mostra, in modo discontinuo, le esistenze anonime di alcuni ragazzi che trascorrono le loro giornate tra il lavoro, le uscite e il parkour. Quella che viene rappresentata è una generazione pronta a saltare da un tetto all’altro, che vive sospesa in una realtà a mezz’aria. Dichiara il regista: «Questo film è nato come un’opportunità per me di collocarmi nel luogo ipotetico che preferisco quando dirigo o guardo un film, ovvero lontano da ogni certezza. Cerco sempre di perdermi dentro queste esperienze, così da generare il vuoto che mi dà la possibilità di superare i miei limiti». L’immagine che ne risulta è quella di una quotidianità snervata e snervante, esasperata dall’uso della camera a mano. La trama risulta troppo lacunosa e la fotografia fastidiosa, se non per l’ultima ripresa dall’alto che chiarisce allo spettatore il senso della frammentarietà delle scene. Continua la lettura di “Tôi quên rôi – I forgot!” di Eduardo Williams e “La Huella en la niebla” di Emiliano Grieco →

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“TÔI QUÊN RÔI – I FORGOT!” and “LA HUELLA EN LA NIEBLA”: let’s let young international director have their chance

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Article by: Alisa Marghella

Translation by: Giulia Magazzù

 

After Pude ver a puma, Eduardo Williams comes back to the TFF with another short film, Tôi quên rôi – I forgot!, which preceded the screening of The huella en la niebla.

With Tôi quên rôi – I forgot!, the young Argentine director proposes a longer film (maybe too long, since it had to precede the next film). It is a twenty-six minute movie that  discontinuously portraits the anonymous lives of some guys who spend their days between work, hanging out and parkour. He portraits a fragmented generation, ready to jump from one roof to another, who lives in a suspended reality.

In the director’s words, «This film came to me as an opportunity to locate myself in the hypothetical place that I prefer when I direct or watch a movie, or far from any certainty. I always try to get lost in these experiences, in order to generate a vacuum that gives me the opportunity to exceed my limits». The picture that emerges is that of an unnerved and unnerving everyday life, exasperated by the use of hand-held cameras. The plot is too incomplete and the photography annoying, except for the last shot that clarifies to the viewer the sense of the fragmentary nature of the scenes.

La huella en la niebla is certainly a more pleasant movie. Directed by another Argentine director, Emiliano Grieco, it tells the story of Elias, a wounded man who returns to his island in order to rebuild his life. The wound, however, does not heal, and despite his efforts the fog ends up swallowing him.

Grieco does not employ a real actor, but a fisherman. He uses no dialogues at all, but water looks like the real star of the film. Considered as the conclusion of the documentary The Son of the River, the first work of the young director, this film lies somewhere between the great stories of Dickens and Conrad and documentary, making a good use of photography. The contrast between in focus and out of focus images serves as a narrative liaison, allowing the director to take advantage of the suggestions offered by the landscape to describe the emotions of a man trying (to no avail) to find traces of the past through the river. Overall, though, the narrative results are extremely “confusing” and the goal of placing the character in an interior limbo, unfortunately, leaves the viewer in that limbo too.