The Place of No Words

Movie
Original title	The Place of No Words
Country of production	Australia , USA , ; UK
original language	English
Publishing year	2019
length	95 minutes
Rod
Director	Mark Webber
script	Mark Webber
production	Dustin Hughes , ; Teresa Palmer , ; Mark Webber
camera	Patrice Lucien Cochet
cut	Tania take
occupation
	Mark Webber; Teresa Palmer; Bodhi Palmer; Eric Christian Olsen; Nicole Elizabeth Berger; Sarah Wright; Phoebe Tonkin;

The Place of No Words is a fantasy film directed by Mark Webber that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2019 .

action

A terminally ill father is asked by his precocious 3-year-old son "Where do we go when we die?" In his answer, the father goes on an epic journey with the boy through fantastic lands full of mythical creatures.

production

Directed by Mark Webber , who also wrote the script. It is in The Place of No Words for the third film in the series "Reality Cinema". The film was produced by Dustin Hughes , Teresa Palmer and Mark Webber himself, with the latter two also starring in leading roles. Webber had cast roles with his own family in his earlier films. His ex-wife Frankie Shaw had a leading role in his film Explicit Ills , as well as a supporting role in The End of Love . His future wife, Teresa Palmer, had a leading role in his 2014 film The Ever After . Their son Bodhi plays their son in The Place of No Words . It is the child actor's debut.

From the end of April to the beginning of May 2019, the film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and celebrated its world premiere here. Jason Gutierrez describes the film on the film festival website as a magical fable full of epic images. A first official trailer was released at the time of its screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. At the end of June and beginning of July 2019 it was shown at the Munich Film Festival in the CineMasters competition.

reception

Reviews

Variety's Tomris Laffly writes that when it comes to dealing with grief, The Place of No Words is very reminiscent of David Lowery's similarly experimental film A Ghost Story , and a patient viewer will at some point be rewarded with something intimate and gradually immersive, à la Where the Wild Things Are . This adventurous and often dream-like film succeeds in conveying a strangely optimistic and liberating image of death.

SlashFilm's Hoai-Tran Bui says, despite its inadequacies, The Place of No Words is a deeply personal exploration of grief and mortality. The film differs from other escapist fantasies by its iron grip on reality. At the age of three, Bodhi Palmer could hardly do more than just babble lines that sound more like a normal conversation between him and his father than a dialogue from the script, which is what makes the film so appealing and gives it the spontaneous quality that ultimately allows a special intimacy. Even if Mark Webber's The Place of No Words feels like a lavishly produced home video for Bui's family, the subjects the film tries to address are touching. While Bodhi's questions about death and mortality are never fully answered, at least it's fun to accompany him on an enchanting journey.