The maker sees the film as a fairytale. It is however a modern and political fairytale. It’s an ironic adaptation of the Hollywood film Roman Holiday by William Wyler. This time not with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, but with Mei-Ling (in other words Mrs Chiang Kai-Shek) and the film maker himself. Before the revolution, Mei-Ling was the first lady van China, but now, so many years later, she is led as a doll around Beijing by a Westerner.
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Yesterday Estel joined the JROTC youth military programme… today she is just hanging out with her friends. -
Odin’s Shield Maiden
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Maria
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Las Vegas, New York, Blackpool
No, not the real Robert De Niro, but the various people who have specialised as lookalike. The real De Niro is not amused. -
The House
An unusual fiction about the stunningly fast economic and social changes in Azerbaijan. A man refuses to leave his old cottage, that is on a…
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
