With an introduction of heavy rainfall and images of a churchyard in Paris, the film seems to be heading towards a dirge. But the sky clears and the tone gets lighter. The poetic sequence of shots of fragile flower petals and skeletons of autumn leaves together form a minor monument for mortality.
Also in this combined programme
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Dead Horse Point
Fascinating North American landscape film questions the mythology of the Western in a visual way. -
A Lapse of Memory
In a layered story about an old man in the deserted palace in Brighton, reality and fiction get mixed up. -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
