Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Fabrizio Ferraro's Les Unwanted de Europa (2018) is exclusively showing January 28 – February 26, 2019 as part of the retrospective Direct from Rotterdam.Fabrizio Ferraro’s Les Unwanted de Europa opens with brief prologue of 16mm footage taken from the Institut Jean Vigo’s 2015 DVD “Filmer en bord de mer: Le littoral du Languedoc et du Roussillon,” a compilation of amateur, corporate, and institutional films rescued from the attics and archives of various privately held collections. This opening, comprised of some rather idyllic landscape imagery of the Southeastern Pyrenees and nearby Mediterranean coast, sets the quiet, contemplative tone for the forthcoming film. Accompanied by little more than the faint, non-diegetic sound of footsteps, the footage, shot in warm, autumnal hues, is tranquil and evocative of a bygone early-to-midcentury milieu where horses shared the roads with cars and farmers proudly worked the hillsides by hand.
- 2/7/2019
- MUBI
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