Koozhangal Review: As Close To Being A Masterpiece As Any Debut This Millennium
Koozhangal Review: As Close To Being A Masterpiece As Any Debut This Millennium
Koozhangal Review: Presented by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan, a piece of pure cinema that strips down the medium to its bare bones with a splendid sense of balance
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Cast: Chellapandi, Karuththadaiyaan
The opening shot of first-time director P.S. Vinothraj s
Koozhangal (Pebbles) is as stark as it is evocative. We watch a bird building a nest on a bent, shaky branch - a little winged creature engaged in the rudimentary act of rustling up a safe shelter. But does the branch have the strength to bear the weight of the home the bird is stitching together in the fond hope that it will endure? Just about.
Writer-director P.S. Vinothraj’s
Pebbles is a film born out of a trauma that he was witness to. In 2015, his sister s husband threw her out of their house and she walked 13 kms to her mother’s house, carrying her two-year-old child.
Pebbles makes the husband walk and a young boy stalks him, taunting him with his silence and gaze that’s a mix of anger and raging indifference.
P.S. Vinothraj’s debut film, which won the prestigious Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in February this year, is a harsh, relentless, bare-foot trudge through a pale, malnourished land that seems stunned by the complete lack of water. It s dry to the bone and is slowly shedding itself, turning first to pebbles and then to sand.
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Pebbles Review: Visual Rewards Complement a Primal Tale in This Noteworthy Indian Indie Pebbles Review: Visual Rewards Complement a Primal Tale in This Noteworthy Indian Indie
A young boy is dragged between villages by his abusive alcoholic father to bring his mother back home.
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Director: P S Vinothraj
With: Chella Pandi, Karuththadaiyan,
Premalatha, Banu Priya, Sanjeevikumar, Paraman, Rakkaye, Pandiyamma K, Dharshini , Philip Arulooss, Chandramathi, Raniyamma, Muthu, Meenakshi, Hemalata, Eshwaran, Vettachi. (Tamil dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 75 MIN.
Courtesy of Rotterdam
The sunbaked, drought-stricken terrain of southeast India is a major determinant of the action in P S Vinothraj’s beautifully crafted, precisely plotted debut, “Pebbles.” Taking a simple premise with all the focus and penetration of a perfectly constructed short story, the writer-director transforms the drama of a young boy dragged between