film profile], the second feature film by
Rachel Lang, which was presented in the closing slot of the Directors’ Fortnight, unspooling within the 74th Cannes Film Festival, is a story about war and commitment. It’s a story about love. Or rather, it’s a story about those who go to war and those who keep the love alive. A world where men go to war and women take charge of care. A world of opposition but where, ultimately, frustrations, expectations and vulnerabilities coincide.
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The film opens with bodies: young, for the most part, athletic, almost certainly, dressed in uniform and dancing. We’re in a nightclub, a kind of formal parenthesis which serves as an introduction to a haunting tale echoing the questions which engulf life on a military base like a tidal wave; universal questions where we least expect to find them. Can you love someone when you’re far away from one another, and, if so, how? Is it possible to ha
Review: Our Men
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Review: Our Men
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