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After seven years of ‘mad triage’ on possibly the best drama series ever, its creator is up for a lot of noodling, football, and maybe a return to his first love – the sitcom
An atmosphere of intense disquiet percolates through almost every frame of
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, the edgy Sesotho feature by Lesotho-born, Berlin-based filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese. This fierce tension and accompanying sense of unease that Mosese captures with often rhapsodic beauty, exists in spite of the long periods of meditative stillness, states of inertia and pause that beset the film.
It is as though we are gazing at sacred paintings, studying portraits for clues to something prophetic and otherworldly. In the process, I suspect, we are being seduced by the film’s drugged-out rhythm, coaxed into a sense of that in-between state, somewhere between this physical realm and an ethereal alternative.
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Director overcomes tragedy to film the story his daughter loved
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Now more than ever, says Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, there isn’t much space in life to let go and see what happens. To abandon control, to take a risk. “Denmark is a pretty chaste country in some ways,” he says. “Very rational. We like to think of ourselves as happy people: it’s a bit of a shire, really, with hobbits! But then there is this need to go crazy, which I find very interesting.”