Rey (2017)

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Movie
German title Rey
Original title Rey
Country of production Chile , France
original language Spanish , Mapudungun
Publishing year 2017
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Niles Atallah
script Niles Atallah
production Lucie Kalmar
music Sebastian Jatz
camera Benjamin Echazarreta
cut Benjamin Mirguet
occupation
Rodrigo Lisboa, Niles Atallah and Lucie Kalmar at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017

Rey is a 2017 feature film by video artist, writer and director Niles Attalah .

action

In 1860 the eccentric French lawyer and adventurer Orélie Antoine de Tounens travels through the forests of southern Chile and Argentina to establish the independent kingdoms of Araucana and Patagonia, with himself as king. He is only accompanied by his Chilean guide and translator Rosales. He wants to unite the indigenous people of the Mapuche and let their chiefs elect them to be king. He has already drawn up a constitution, a national anthem and a flag. But Rosales betrays his unfamiliar employer to the Chilean government and de Tounens is arrested. He is brought to trial and eventually expelled from the country. De Tounens tried again to come into the country and to contact the Mapuche. But eventually he dies lonely and impoverished in France .

production

Niles Atallah worked on Rey for seven years . He and his editor Benjamin Mirguet experimented with film recordings on celluloid in the formats 8mm , 16mm , and 35mm , which they buried in Atallah's garden and only took out after months. This results in different traces of aging and decay on the material, which was then partially scratched and colored.

They combined this analog film material with digital recordings and found footage, mostly from the holdings of the EYE Film Instituut Nederland in Amsterdam .

reception

The film convinced 83% of the Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 6 out of 10 points.

In the Tagesspiegel, Esther Buss is fascinated by Atallah's experiments with the film texture, but thinks that “the main thing is about the material”.

Variety describes Rey as "an artful meditation on the changeability of historical memory and the inevitability of decay".

In the taz , Johannes Bluth compares Rey with Werner Herzog's film Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Christian Kracht's novel Imperium . He describes the film as a "highly artificial collage" and a "clever reflection on history and historicity".

In the film service , Rey is referred to as an "experimental historical drama".

Ernst Corinth from the Göttinger Tageblatt can also imagine Rey in an art gallery.

So can Cath Clarke from the Guardian , who thinks the film is "strange and sometimes beautiful". She describes the episodes in which the actors wear paper mache masks as "like something out of a dream, painted by Lucian Freud ".

Awards

  • Special jury award at the 2017 Rotterdam Film Festival
  • Audience Award at the FICUNAM Film Festival 2017 in Mexico
  • French Film Critics' Award at the 29th Cinelatino Film Festival in Toulouse, France
  • "Best Fiction" at the FicWallmapu film festival of the indigenous peoples from Wallmapu in Temuco , Chile
  • FIPRESCI Prize at the Vladivostok International Film Festival in Russia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Esther Buss: In the Kingdom of Dreams. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel Online, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rey. In: Filmfest München 2017. Internationale Münchner Filmwochen GmbH, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Lasinger: Rey. In: artechock.de. Artechock eV, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Rotterdam Film Review: 'King'. In: variety.com. Variety Media, LLC, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: King of the Mapuche. In: swr.de. SWR, accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ Rey (2017). In: www.rottentomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Johannes Bluth: The grain of the royal. In: taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Rey. In: filmdienst.de. dreipunktdrei mediengesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ernst Corinth: "Rey": The man who was king of Chile. In: http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de . Göttinger Tageblatt, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Cath Clarke: Rey review - dreamlike drama about a man who would be king. In: www.theguardian.com. The Guardian, January 5, 2019, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Rey. In: International Film Festival Rotterdam. International Film Festival Rotterdam, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Rey. In: momerade.fr. Mômerade Filmproduktion, founded by Rey producer Lucie Kalmar, accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Palmarès (2017). In: http://www.cinelatino.fr . Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse, accessed on January 14, 2019 (French).
  14. ↑ DOCE FUERON LAS REALIZACIONES RECONOCIDAS POR EL JURADO INTERNACIONAL FICWALLMAPU 2017. In: www.ficwallmapu.cl/. El Festival Internacional de Cine Indígena, accessed January 14, 2019 (Spanish).
  15. ↑ 15th Vladivostok International Film Festival. In: www.fipresci.org//. FIPRESCI International Federation of Film Critics, accessed January 14, 2019 .