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Aoud rih (2001)
An eternal journey (spoilers throughout)
Aoulad-Syad's trip through Morocco may remind one of Wenders' movies : the characters are rather lost, uncertain, so they keep on going, on the road, until they find their way, or not. Yet, they are rather happy, but restless : there may always be something to prevent them from being happy enough to allow them not to be restless any longer. Anything can do the job : a letter from one's mother, a childhood remembrance, an old man. Maybe, most probably even, the journey is much more important than the aim. Maybe it is the same with the viewer, maybe I shall never stop watching Aoud rih, maybe Aoulad-Syad will keep on shooting it forever after all...
Makibefo (2001)
Primal Screen
(potential spoilers) Abela went to Madagascar to shoot his film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. His actors were the Antroyds, a local tribe of fishermen. In Madagascar, the text becomes closer to nature, acting is sober (sometimes, e.g. the scene of the sacrifice, action becomes fiction, as the killing is real), the film looks like some early black and white movies, becomes primitive in many ways, returns to the roots of cinema.
Me mage sandai (2000)
Strange exotic story
A Sri Lankan film that begins like a war film and develops like a hinduistic saga, where men and women's vices are forever re-incarnated in a masochistic succession. Disruption is in the key of it, all the scenes are like independant images of a mosaic (like religious art). On the whole, it remains quite difficult to understand for an occidental audience (actually who knows about the long-lasting war between Hindus and Sikhs in Sri Lanka?). Moreover, the ideological message remains difficult to make out, although undoubtedly present.
Iko shashvi mgalobeli (1970)
The Unbearable Lightness of Cinema
The communist regime did not like at all Ioseliani's movie, which became "widely" visible only a long time after it was shot. The hero is rather lazy and does not care much about the communist ethos of the time and the ideal of a whole nation at work. The film is about being happy far from a madly competing crowd and Ioseliani's message may also apply to today's capitalistic society.
Imago (2001)
Of insects and men
(Potential spoilers) A strange movie, where a man becomes an insect,metaphorically,an imago, i.e. less than an insect actually, the unperfect image of himself before he learnt how to feel. Irony, even comedy and tension mix together in a brilliant psychological blend of sensations. Moving, disturbing, funny... go and watch it!