Every Week Seven Days
Students' daily life turns into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of atomic overkill. A masterpiece of modernist poetics!
90'
ČSSR
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Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow?
Maybe this is what intrigued Ljubov Arkus – arguably the most outstanding figure in modern Russian critical film culture – about her in the first place. That as a result of this mentality, something about the final decades of the USSR as well as the new Russia crystallises in her, making Demidova the perfect focal point for a meditation on several separate questions, sketches of other creative geniuses, all of them crisscrossing through her life and career. All of which makes What Beat You Nothing a most unusual undertaking, for it is not only a classical portrait of an artist, but an essay, a series of thoughts and observations that take Demidova as a starting point and finishing line.
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Programme IFFR 2022
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeStudents' daily life turns into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of atomic overkill. A masterpiece of modernist poetics!
90'
ČSSR
IFFR 2022
Version of a popular folk tale about a mysterious island realm ruled by women. A rare treasure of television!
69'
South Korea
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Scenes from the life of a lonely elderly lady in utterly bizarre situations. A masterpiece hopscotching between surrealism and cinema vérité.
76'
Hungary
IFFR 2022