Thomas Vinterberg knows how fleeting fame can be. After Celebrations He was showered with praise, but the Cannes Film Festival chose his successor last year. All about love About. It says a lot about the festival. Every radical film is welcome, but with a naive and anti-ironic film, the valves go off.
Sometimes a movie suddenly comes along that everyone is talking about. Celebrations It was such a film. Out of nowhere, the digital film revealing a family appeared in Cannes four years ago, and the film then embarked on an international triumphal march. For months, Doctrine’s protagonist Thomas Vinterberg spent more time on planes than he did with his wife and children. It gave him a strange sense of disconnection. It was like living in a vacuum, he later recalled. He noticed that many people were living the life of displaced people. They travel from place to place like modern nomads, completely immersed in their work. There was no room for intimacy anymore. Vinterberg sees this frenetic existence as a disease that afflicts everyone: “People are constantly on the move. They’re on their way to their boyfriend or girlfriend they don’t live with. They’re putting their kids in daycare. They’re calling each other between conferences and declaring their love by text.” These are the words of a director who doesn’t shy away from moralizing and cultural pessimism.
Winterberg’s feelings of displacement served as a source of inspiration. All about loveThe creator took a huge risk by throwing all the rules of the creed into the sea. His new film didn’t have to be any different. Celebrations But quite the opposite: studio shots, fixed camera angles, artificial light, and ostentatious locations instead of shooting on location with handheld cameras. All about love It was supposed to evoke a warm Technicolor atmosphere.
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All about love It’s an impressively ambitious film. The script is one that Vinterberg absolutely loves. Celebrations Written with his old film school teacher Mogens Rockoff, it is set in 2021. Earth is “cosmically in turmoil.” Amazing things are happening. In Uganda, gravity disappears so people float, in the Sahara, snow falls from the sky, and in the New York summer, it snows. And things are not going well for humanity either: people are dropping dead in the streets because their hearts are failing.
Against this backdrop, the film delves into the love affair between American figure skating world champion Elena (Claire Danes) and Polish academic John (Joaquin Phoenix). The couple have been living apart for some time. John wants to put an end to the relationship by getting a divorce. To arrange it, he travels from Warsaw to Elena in New York, where he is drawn into the dark world of magic surrounding the ice star. Is Elena’s manager planning to kill Elena? Are John and Elena paranoid?
All about love It is not made according to the rules of the screenplay manual. Those looking for a well-thought-out plot can stay home, but those who see the film as a frightened dream fantasy will be carried away by the slow pace. The atmosphere of doom is reminiscent of Kubrick. eyes wide closedand it’s also not a movie with a standard script. All about love It is a film that should be experienced in a semi-conscious state. The photographs were taken by Anthony Dod Mantle, who also does the camera work. Celebrations Breathtakingly beautiful, Kieslowski’s Zbigniew Preisner’s music is hypnotic, and the Danes are perfect as the ice star, who has lost control of himself. Vinterberg deserves admiration for having the courage to pursue the cruel. Celebrations To produce a completely silly, anti-ironic romantic love movie. If he dropped it hard? Who cares. It’s about love.
