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A young man and a woman on a boat.
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Germany
Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4558264/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_rdat
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15 Mar 2015
- Premiere Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4558264/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_rdat
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a geometric, dream-like fairy tale floating down a river bed. incredibly precise framing and blocking, beautiful sound design and score with a pace that did linger at points, but the unpredictability of the story kept me hooked.
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Are all of Koberidze’s films little fairytales like this, because I quite like this charming sensibility
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Ich liebe die Poetik, die aus der Kombination von Voice Over, den Tagebucheinträgen und den Bildern entsteht. Besonders schön sind das natürliche Licht und die Bewegungen, die durch die Bootsfahrt entstehen.
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Ya se ensaya el cruce entre la fantasía, la literatura, el mito, el agua, el verde, el cielo y los colores cálidos en el fílmico que veremos después en "What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?"...
¡Qué cine tan estimulante!
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Still basking in my first encounter with Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberdize less than one week ago, I decided to check out one of his earlier works. A short film about a boy and a dog and a girl and a boat on a river.
It would’ve been obvious in 2015 that this young Berlin film school student would not become just any run of the mill filmmaker.
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She explained to me that this is really common, since it was Monday, and on Mondays, she always was crying in triangles. Tuesdays in squares, Wednesdays in circles, Thursdays in trapeziums, Fridays in rhombuses, and on Saturday and Sunday she was crying in all these forms.
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I loved, loved, LOVED the fantasy aspect of the tears coming out in different shapes depending on the day of the week. I also liked the play with formats, having an omniscient voice-off narrator as well as intertitles for the protagonit's inner thoughts. And even though at times it's as formalist and dry as a Straub-Huillet film, those flares of inventiveness make it light and palatable. A wonderful thing.
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How I feel about all Koberidze: pretentious and excruciatingly dull. All of the worst hallmarks of Euro Film Fest Movie are present. Just a load of nothingness. Koberidze is just simply not for me.
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Fascinating since the very beginning.
Leek and bread, cow and flies.
All this shape stuff made me repeatedly think of computer graphics.
The nost interesting part to me was the man narrating his story through the first person intertitles, and a different version of his point of view spoken by the third-person, omniscent female narrator.The font is stylistically great but it's not that readable: I mistook a "far" for a "for" and I am sharpeyed with zero dyslexia, so I guess it would be quite a bad time for some others.
Luckily, on MUBI the intertitles are subbed — but spoken German is not."...it's the feeling you get from being in the presence of someone crying that makes existence a tough one."
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Frühstückstisch mit Kaffee, Obstschale und natürlich Orangensaft. Eines meiner absoluten Lieblingsklischees. NICHT! Und dann noch auf'm Boot, ja nee... Genau solche kleinen Details sagen unbewusst manchmal mehr über einen Film und deren Macher respektive ihrer Beweggründe, auch deren Sorgfalt, aus, als jede nach außen "verkaufte" Intention und jedes vorgeschobene Konzept. Ich weiß nicht ob ihr wisst was ich meine.. Ich hoff's.
Sicher ein verdammt wichtiges Kurzfilm-Exerzitium für den inneren Kreis jedes Filmhochschuldebattierclubs. Für mich derweil einfach nur 'ne ärgerliche Zeitverschwendung.
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this is the seed and the foundation upon which What do we see… grew and was built on. it has most of the elements that i loved about koberidze’s latest feature, but in a miniature version. the fairytale-esque narration type with the narrator, not yet fantastical, albeit still highly unusual events happening, the slow (in this instance a bit faster due to short runtime) and peaceful nature shots and the eccentric use of music.