Through its first-hand accounts of individual transformation in the trying and competitive world of dance, Ballerina carefully steps between Western and Soviet borders. Chronicling nearly a dozen female Ballerinas — while, intending no prejudice to gender, in the words of the Director (Bertrand Normand) — the film gives us interview accounts of the dance […]
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VIFF Review: Ballerina
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Dec
8
VIFF Review: Ploy
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s latest (Invisible Waves, Last Life In the Universe) film is a rich cinematographic puzzle (without edges and a few extra pieces you may never use), framing plural lives and the vague and thin interplay among them. An absurd, double-narrative, and two-dimensional film — one which enjoys interjecting the narratives in proper post-modern […]
