VERY MINOR, RATHER POTENTIAL, SPOILERS... MAYBE...
I'm speechless, my comment will be utterly subjective, I mean beyond what can be called a "comment".
Because this work... story, tale, "Kiss of life" as Peter Gabriel named a song... well, it reached me in a time of change, vulnerability but also open-mindedness(is that English???) where I received it like I received some movies in my teens and twenties ('Pierrot le fou' and 'Le mépris' by J.-L. Godard, 'Touch of evil' by O. Welles, 'The state of things' by W. Wenders, 'Nostalghia' by Tarkovskij...).
It has just entered me with nothing relaying in between, as if I was in the movie, or as if I was the movie itself...
That girl is obviously so much braver than any of those two poor, lost grown-ups playing war; and she does not know or care about where they come from, just offering all the help she can give... and taking all the pleasure she can... her general attitude is a very healthy "why not", but in the most responsible way possible, you can't have anything but great respect for her.
As the fin soldier puts it: being "one with nature", leading "a simple life" (who's first for trying out THAT simplicity?).
She's smashing. Her face and her smile will remain with me for a long time. I'm glad tings led me into a theatre to see this movie.
The cinematography is far from poor, it captures the not so obvious beauty of the landscape, but only for the purpose of the story. This is not a film dripping with good intentions but lacking the means to tell a story with a camera. That's just what one might expect from superficial judgment (the poster, the plot...).
This is just an extremely powerful, generous story, told in exactly the way it needs to be told.
Try to see it if you get the chance (it IS a chance), if you get lucky.
I'm speechless, my comment will be utterly subjective, I mean beyond what can be called a "comment".
Because this work... story, tale, "Kiss of life" as Peter Gabriel named a song... well, it reached me in a time of change, vulnerability but also open-mindedness(is that English???) where I received it like I received some movies in my teens and twenties ('Pierrot le fou' and 'Le mépris' by J.-L. Godard, 'Touch of evil' by O. Welles, 'The state of things' by W. Wenders, 'Nostalghia' by Tarkovskij...).
It has just entered me with nothing relaying in between, as if I was in the movie, or as if I was the movie itself...
That girl is obviously so much braver than any of those two poor, lost grown-ups playing war; and she does not know or care about where they come from, just offering all the help she can give... and taking all the pleasure she can... her general attitude is a very healthy "why not", but in the most responsible way possible, you can't have anything but great respect for her.
As the fin soldier puts it: being "one with nature", leading "a simple life" (who's first for trying out THAT simplicity?).
She's smashing. Her face and her smile will remain with me for a long time. I'm glad tings led me into a theatre to see this movie.
The cinematography is far from poor, it captures the not so obvious beauty of the landscape, but only for the purpose of the story. This is not a film dripping with good intentions but lacking the means to tell a story with a camera. That's just what one might expect from superficial judgment (the poster, the plot...).
This is just an extremely powerful, generous story, told in exactly the way it needs to be told.
Try to see it if you get the chance (it IS a chance), if you get lucky.