Co-directors Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ second feature In Bloom has continued its successful run of winning prizes by picking the Grand Prix at the 4th edition of the Vologda Independent Cinema From European Screens Festival (Voices).
The Georgian-German-French co-production, which premiered at the Berlinale in February and won the main prize at Wiesbaden’s goEast Festival in April, beat competition from such titles as Salvo, A Caretaker’s Tale and Berberian Sound Studio, to convince the International Jury headed by Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr.
The top prize was even sweeter for Ekvtimishvili as it came on the same day as her birthday.
It was also the birthday of Polish actress Katarzyna Kwiatkowska who received the award for Best Actress for her tour de force performance in Maria Sadowska’s Women’s Day.
Sadowska told ScreenDaily that it was fitting that her lead actress should now receive what was her first prize for this film, since all of...
The Georgian-German-French co-production, which premiered at the Berlinale in February and won the main prize at Wiesbaden’s goEast Festival in April, beat competition from such titles as Salvo, A Caretaker’s Tale and Berberian Sound Studio, to convince the International Jury headed by Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr.
The top prize was even sweeter for Ekvtimishvili as it came on the same day as her birthday.
It was also the birthday of Polish actress Katarzyna Kwiatkowska who received the award for Best Actress for her tour de force performance in Maria Sadowska’s Women’s Day.
Sadowska told ScreenDaily that it was fitting that her lead actress should now receive what was her first prize for this film, since all of...
- 7/15/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Front Line Films
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Muddled in both execution and content, "The Gun (From 6 to 7.30 PM)" is a below-par competition entry at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. The film is shot digitally and consists of 15 scenes without cuts. But it looks like director Vladimir Alenikov -- who also wrote, edited and co-produced -- allowed the flexibility afforded by new technology to get the better of him. Both distribution and festival prospects look dim.
The film is a kind of "La Ronde" about a gun that changes hands during a 1 1/2-hour period one evening. A biker finds the gun -- a Russian pistol -- out on the open road and sells it to a shopkeeper. Cab driver Victor (Jack Forbes) suddenly feels the need to protect himself and his wife and buys the gun. It's stolen from him during a visit to a strip joint and ends up in the hands of nervy youth Gene (Jeremiah Hassemer). He finally uses it on Victor in a robbery.
Digital prophets like Mike Figgis often claim that editing is deceitful, saying it distorts the truth about the subject under the lens. But the long, unbroken takes of "The Gun" will have viewers rushing for their copies of "Battleship Potemkin" for montage-inspired relief. The unedited scenes contain so much verbal deadweight that they numb the viewer, while Kirill Davidoff's camerawork is too labored to add interest. Bad sound doesn't help.
The director's attitude to gun ownership is baffling. The film takes no clear stance on the subject and appears more muddled than intentionally ambiguous.
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Muddled in both execution and content, "The Gun (From 6 to 7.30 PM)" is a below-par competition entry at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. The film is shot digitally and consists of 15 scenes without cuts. But it looks like director Vladimir Alenikov -- who also wrote, edited and co-produced -- allowed the flexibility afforded by new technology to get the better of him. Both distribution and festival prospects look dim.
The film is a kind of "La Ronde" about a gun that changes hands during a 1 1/2-hour period one evening. A biker finds the gun -- a Russian pistol -- out on the open road and sells it to a shopkeeper. Cab driver Victor (Jack Forbes) suddenly feels the need to protect himself and his wife and buys the gun. It's stolen from him during a visit to a strip joint and ends up in the hands of nervy youth Gene (Jeremiah Hassemer). He finally uses it on Victor in a robbery.
Digital prophets like Mike Figgis often claim that editing is deceitful, saying it distorts the truth about the subject under the lens. But the long, unbroken takes of "The Gun" will have viewers rushing for their copies of "Battleship Potemkin" for montage-inspired relief. The unedited scenes contain so much verbal deadweight that they numb the viewer, while Kirill Davidoff's camerawork is too labored to add interest. Bad sound doesn't help.
The director's attitude to gun ownership is baffling. The film takes no clear stance on the subject and appears more muddled than intentionally ambiguous.
Front Line Films
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Muddled in both execution and content, "The Gun (From 6 to 7.30 PM)" is a below-par competition entry at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. The film is shot digitally and consists of 15 scenes without cuts. But it looks like director Vladimir Alenikov -- who also wrote, edited and co-produced -- allowed the flexibility afforded by new technology to get the better of him. Both distribution and festival prospects look dim.
The film is a kind of "La Ronde" about a gun that changes hands during a 1 1/2-hour period one evening. A biker finds the gun -- a Russian pistol -- out on the open road and sells it to a shopkeeper. Cab driver Victor (Jack Forbes) suddenly feels the need to protect himself and his wife and buys the gun. It's stolen from him during a visit to a strip joint and ends up in the hands of nervy youth Gene (Jeremiah Hassemer). He finally uses it on Victor in a robbery.
Digital prophets like Mike Figgis often claim that editing is deceitful, saying it distorts the truth about the subject under the lens. But the long, unbroken takes of "The Gun" will have viewers rushing for their copies of "Battleship Potemkin" for montage-inspired relief. The unedited scenes contain so much verbal deadweight that they numb the viewer, while Kirill Davidoff's camerawork is too labored to add interest. Bad sound doesn't help.
The director's attitude to gun ownership is baffling. The film takes no clear stance on the subject and appears more muddled than intentionally ambiguous.
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Muddled in both execution and content, "The Gun (From 6 to 7.30 PM)" is a below-par competition entry at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. The film is shot digitally and consists of 15 scenes without cuts. But it looks like director Vladimir Alenikov -- who also wrote, edited and co-produced -- allowed the flexibility afforded by new technology to get the better of him. Both distribution and festival prospects look dim.
The film is a kind of "La Ronde" about a gun that changes hands during a 1 1/2-hour period one evening. A biker finds the gun -- a Russian pistol -- out on the open road and sells it to a shopkeeper. Cab driver Victor (Jack Forbes) suddenly feels the need to protect himself and his wife and buys the gun. It's stolen from him during a visit to a strip joint and ends up in the hands of nervy youth Gene (Jeremiah Hassemer). He finally uses it on Victor in a robbery.
Digital prophets like Mike Figgis often claim that editing is deceitful, saying it distorts the truth about the subject under the lens. But the long, unbroken takes of "The Gun" will have viewers rushing for their copies of "Battleship Potemkin" for montage-inspired relief. The unedited scenes contain so much verbal deadweight that they numb the viewer, while Kirill Davidoff's camerawork is too labored to add interest. Bad sound doesn't help.
The director's attitude to gun ownership is baffling. The film takes no clear stance on the subject and appears more muddled than intentionally ambiguous.
- 9/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MONTREAL -- Vladimir Alenikov's The Gun is the only American entry among the 19 films that will compete for top honors this year at the Montreal World Film Festival, festival organizers said Tuesday. A total of 224 feature-length films -- including 115 world premieres -- are to unspool at the festival, Aug. 27-Sept. 7. Alenikov's Gun is described as a dramatic thriller that documents a brief moment in the "life" of a gun and the people who must have it. Other films in the world competition section include Spain's 4th Floor, by director Antonio Mercero; Romania's Bless You, Prison, by director Nicolae Margineanu; and two films from Serbia/Montenegro, Dusan Kovacevic's The Professional and Goran Markovic's The Cordon.
- 8/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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