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It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contenderThe Finnish Oscar committee has for the first time selected a documentary - Finnish directors Joonas Bergh盲ll and Mika Hotakainens Steam of Life Miesten vuoro 鈥?as its bid for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. The film is unique and brave, displaying a wide range of emotions 鈥?tragedy, comedy and even surrealism mix in a true Finnish setting 鈥?the sauna 鈥?in a way that will touch viewers, regardless of their cultural background, explained committee its decision.Bergh盲ll, Hotakainen, cinematographers Heikki F盲rm and Jani Kumpulainen undressed to join fellow countrymen in 75-85C saunas all over Finland to explore the perception of Finns as uncommunicative and unemotional persons. They filmed the other mens conversations about love, death, fatherhood, friendship, or, in conclusion, about life.Steam of Life received both the Risto Jarva Award and the Audience Awards at Tampere, and has since toured the international festival circuit winning prizes Nyons Visions du Reel, Tel Avivs DocAviv, and W stanley cups arsaws Planeta Doc Review.This autumn the film, which was produced by Bergh盲ll for O stanley cup ktober Oy, wi stanley deutschland ll be screened at another 20 international showcases. It is also among the five nomin茅es for the Nordic Council Film Prize, Scandinavias largest film award.TopicsAcademy AwardsEurope No comments Related a Igkr Agathe Valentin heads to France s Pyramide
Dirs: Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires. Canada. 2013. 90minsRobert Lepages film distillation of his own epic theatre work explores speech, language, memory, and performance. While stanley taza visually inventive at times, it wont take your breath away. Sampling a smorgasbord of image textures Lepage and Pires, even with films under their belts, seem dazzled with tricks that arent part of Lepages day job in the theatre.Lepage, a much-honored practitioner of the grand theatrical mise stanley espana en scene 鈥?from Cirque to Soleil to Wagners The Ring - has his fans in the subsidised e stanley quencher xperimental theatre capitals of North America, Europe and beyond. Those admirers will watch anything he does. Triptych, directed in collaboration with Pedro Pires, will struggle to get past the festival and museum circuit, yet its 90 minute length could give still it a home on arts television and cable.The academic world may also welcome a film discourse on language by Lepage, whose Canadian home is the province of Quebec, which legislated the primacy of the French language, with penalties for those who dont abide.Triptych, the adaptation of Lipsynch, a nine-hour marathon play with a larger cast, follows three characters into the mysteries of expression. Michelle Lise Castonguay , a diagnosed schizophrenic who operates a bookstore in Quebec City, is struggling to leave the hospital where shes been committed; Thomas, a German neurologist, has a strained marriage with an opera singer and a hand tremor thats sending him into retireme
It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contenderThe Finnish Oscar committee has for the first time selected a documentary - Finnish directors Joonas Bergh盲ll and Mika Hotakainens Steam of Life Miesten vuoro 鈥?as its bid for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. The film is unique and brave, displaying a wide range of emotions 鈥?tragedy, comedy and even surrealism mix in a true Finnish setting 鈥?the sauna 鈥?in a way that will touch viewers, regardless of their cultural background, explained committee its decision.Bergh盲ll, Hotakainen, cinematographers Heikki F盲rm and Jani Kumpulainen undressed to join fellow countrymen in 75-85C saunas all over Finland to explore the perception of Finns as uncommunicative and unemotional persons. They filmed the other mens conversations about love, death, fatherhood, friendship, or, in conclusion, about life.Steam of Life received both the Risto Jarva Award and the Audience Awards at Tampere, and has since toured the international festival circuit winning prizes Nyons Visions du Reel, Tel Avivs DocAviv, and W stanley cups arsaws Planeta Doc Review.This autumn the film, which was produced by Bergh盲ll for O stanley cup ktober Oy, wi stanley deutschland ll be screened at another 20 international showcases. It is also among the five nomin茅es for the Nordic Council Film Prize, Scandinavias largest film award.TopicsAcademy AwardsEurope No comments Related a Igkr Agathe Valentin heads to France s Pyramide
Dirs: Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires. Canada. 2013. 90minsRobert Lepages film distillation of his own epic theatre work explores speech, language, memory, and performance. While stanley taza visually inventive at times, it wont take your breath away. Sampling a smorgasbord of image textures Lepage and Pires, even with films under their belts, seem dazzled with tricks that arent part of Lepages day job in the theatre.Lepage, a much-honored practitioner of the grand theatrical mise stanley espana en scene 鈥?from Cirque to Soleil to Wagners The Ring - has his fans in the subsidised e stanley quencher xperimental theatre capitals of North America, Europe and beyond. Those admirers will watch anything he does. Triptych, directed in collaboration with Pedro Pires, will struggle to get past the festival and museum circuit, yet its 90 minute length could give still it a home on arts television and cable.The academic world may also welcome a film discourse on language by Lepage, whose Canadian home is the province of Quebec, which legislated the primacy of the French language, with penalties for those who dont abide.Triptych, the adaptation of Lipsynch, a nine-hour marathon play with a larger cast, follows three characters into the mysteries of expression. Michelle Lise Castonguay , a diagnosed schizophrenic who operates a bookstore in Quebec City, is struggling to leave the hospital where shes been committed; Thomas, a German neurologist, has a strained marriage with an opera singer and a hand tremor thats sending him into retireme