Tales of Two Who Dreamed
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Tales of Two Who Dreamed |
| Country of production |
Canada Mexico |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Andrea Bussmann Nicolás Pereda |
| script | Andrea Bussmann Nicolás Pereda |
| production | Andrea Bussmann Nicolás Pereda Dan Montgomery |
| camera |
Neo Rodriguez Andrea Bussmann |
| cut | Andrea Bussmann |
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Tales of Two Who Dreamed is a Canadian - Mexican film from 2016. It was directed by Andrea Bussmann and Nicolás Pereda and fluctuates between documentary and feature film . The action takes place in a skyscraper that isinhabitedby Sinti and Roma who are waiting for their asylum applications to be processed. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016 .
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Sinti and Roma from Hungary wait for their asylum applications to be processed in a shabby high-rise in Toronto . The film follows a family who repeatedly address their participation in filming themselves and learn, for example, text. Various fictional stories from the house are told, such as an escaped snake, a starved dog or the transformation of a boy into a bird, reminiscent of Kafka . The viewer sees this boy running through the area around the skyscraper with a beak, while the influence of this transformation on the family is explained. There are also documentary parts that show, for example, the grandfather and father of the family collecting scrap in the streets of Toronto or the filming. Preparations are also being made for the hearing at the Asylum Commission, whose negative decision is made known at the end of the film. At the end of the film, the family also shows the film team a film with recordings from their home country.
background
Tales of Two Who Dreamed emerged from two film projects. While Nicolás Pereda wanted to make a fictional film based on a variation on the theme of Kafka's The Metamorphosis , Andrea Bussmann was working on a documentary about the Roma family and the shooting. She had met the family beforehand in their everyday life and persuaded them to shoot the film, in which they also contributed themselves. After the fictional project didn't work out completely, Bussmann combined her material with Pereda's, which is why the film alternates between fiction and documentation. The language of the film is Hungarian, which has been subtitled. The filmmakers worked with the distance between the original statement and any translation, for example by assembling a scene twice in a row, but translating the grandfather's monologue once and using completely fictional subtitles the other time. Pereda described his motivation for making this film as follows: “The reason that I wanted to make movie about them is that I felt that they had not assimilated into North American society, and I feel somewhat the same. The difference is that this cultural distance is way more visible in the case of the [Roma] community than it is in my own life. "
The film was produced by Interior XIII and MDFF . At the Morelia International Film Festival 2015, Bussmann and Pereda screened the film in an early stage of production. The preliminary title was “El corazon del cielo” (“The Heart of the Sky”).
Tales of Two Who Dreamt celebrated its world premiere as part of the Forum section of the Berlinale 2016 .
Reviews
Tobias Sedlmaier characterized Tales of Two Who Dreamt in his review as follows: "An important insight: Ultimately, life and filmmaking often consist only of waiting and rearranging. The black and white film, which is made with documentary elements, is ironically broken and reflected on several times his own conditions of existence as in a making-of, as well as the practice of cinematic narration. " Florian Krautkrämer described the effect of the film for dkritik.de and also addressed the moral question of the extent to which the film adequately portrays the situation of the refugees: "If anything, we can see from this story [the Kafka Variation; author's note] Only fragments. It is told through rehearsals, discussions and reading dialogues. However, the whole thing is integrated into people's everyday lives and ultimately you don't know whether you are watching a rehearsal, whether the camera was simply left on or the family just actually discussed their imminent deportation. The black and white material, which looks like it has been hand-developed, makes the whole thing artificial. As the father once describes it: as if you woke up from a dream within a dream. Whether the concept does justice to the real situation of people is difficult to judge, but at least it manages to capture a few moments of real life. "
Roger Koza described Tales of Two Who Dreamed for the film and festival blog ojosabiertos . He focused in particular on playing with documentation and fiction, which is typical of Pereda's work, and his relationship to questions of representation: "As in most of Pereda's films, there is a tension between the realms of fiction and documentary, or rather a lack of distinction that causes wonder over the paradox of all representation and its implicit plea for truth. But here, there is a twist that is expressed in a beautiful concern: Where does fiction come from? Men areable to (re) describe creatively their experiences, to appeal to legends of another time, and goal-elaborate their own dreams. Here are the noble stuffs of fiction .. "Lucy Cameron gave the film a positive rating, which she awarded four out of five stars for theupcoming.co.uk. She located and described Tales of Two Who Dreamt as follows: "Drawing on French New Wave and New Argentine formal techniques, Tales eschews conventional narrative structure in favor of gritty, disorganized and unpolished renderings of the lives of ordinary people. It is shot entirely in black and white and uses voiceover and song as it lingers over its grim, urban surroundings. In lieu of a guiding plot, the film is elegantly held together by circumstance and ennui. The characters alternately read from scripts, discuss the central legend of the bird boy, move furniture around and dye their hair in preparation for the main event; but the movie, for the many ways it is imagined and rehearsed, never materialises. Tales of Two Who Dreamt is a treatment of the bare texture of people moving through their daily lives, but it is also a treatment of time and expectation, of the moments that populate the hours and days spent waiting. "
Web links
- Datasheet on berlinale.de.
- Roger Koza: Mes FICUNAM 2016 (01) / Críticas Breves (117): Tales of Two Who Dreamt , on: ojosabiertos.otroscines.com from February 1, 2016.
- Information about the directors and film trailers on canada-berlin2016.ca.
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Nayman: Filmmaker Nico Pereda's 'improvised way of framing things' , on theglobeandmail.com, November 23, 2012, accessed May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Anna Maria de la Fuente: Morelia Debuts Pix-in-Post Showcase, Impulso Morelia , on variety.com, October 27, 2015, accessed May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Announcement of the premiere on mdff.ca on January 18, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Tobias Sedlmaier: Miniaturen , in: cult: online, from February 21, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2016. ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Florian Krautkrämer: Tales of Twho Dreamt , in: dkritik.de, from February 15, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Roger Koza: Tales of Two Who Dreamed , on: ficunam.org from February 22, 2016. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lucy Cameron: Tales of Twho Dreamt , at: theupcoming.co.uk, February 15, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016.
