Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Hybrid noir showing in moving collages the hunt for a man who could be anyone. Cigarettes burn. Ash falls. ‘Silence fiction’.
80'
Croatia
IFFR 2021
People are constantly looking for their other half, which will make them complete, Aristophanes states in Plato’s Symposium. Amor fati starts where this spiritual search ends, showing the daily lives of a range of couples that includes a mysterious hermit and his white horse and two peroxide-blonde boys with a shared love of tattoos, wedding dresses and raves. These diverse portraits are painstakingly woven together to form an enchanting whole that revolves around simply being together.
For this poetic documentary, Cláudia Varejão spent two years travelling around Portugal, filming love in all shapes and sizes. Varejão’s painterly compositions and penetrating close-ups are not only attractive and intimate, but also add an appropriate touch of magical realism. Amor fati observes the universal yet unique entanglements of a host of different people without lapsing into romantic clichés. The familiar presence of another person makes the lives in Amor fati complete.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, IFFR’s newest programme offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.
Still: El ventre del mar
Read more about this programmeHybrid noir showing in moving collages the hunt for a man who could be anyone. Cigarettes burn. Ash falls. ‘Silence fiction’.
80'
Croatia
IFFR 2021
These intimate, at times almost magical, portraits of soulmates prove that love comes in all shapes and sizes.
102'
Portugal
IFFR 2021
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67'
France
IFFR 2021