The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy / 12 May

IFFB coverage – In my mind, the Beaver Kid is and does one thing, and in the filmmaker’s mind, he is and does something entirely different. Both Harris and I have evidence for our interpretations. Both of us might be wrong. Either way, The Beaver Trilogy accomplishes something astonishing. It documents the gap between an event and its interpretation, between an action and our memory of it, between the world and our perceptions.

Review by Katherine Follett | Comment

The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy / 12 May

IFFB coverage – What we’re observing in the initial scene of the Beaver Trilogy is real, but it is also a performance. And it’s one, the film will subsequently prove, so wholly unique, so unadulterated and unrehearsed that it amounts to one of those moments for which cinema exists, a performance expressed outwardly toward an audience and yet one created in respect to the presence of a camera.

Review by Rumsey Taylor | Comments (1)

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness / 09 May

Jirí Weiss’ own family background obviously comes into play with this wartime setting he returned to repeatedly in his films—he was born into a German-speaking Jewish family. But although Romeo, Juliet and Darkness deals with the Holocaust, it’s never made the centrepiece of the story; instead, it’s shifted to the background in the same way that Hanka herself is kept at the periphery, an almost exotic figure that is kept at a distance, one that is in a sense outside the world of the film.

Review by Ian Johnston | Comment

At the Death House Door

At the Death House Door / 08 May

IFFB coverage – There’s a small moment late in the film when Rohto confesses to Pickett that she’s angry about what happened to her brother. Pickett urges her to “stay that way,” and that may be Gilbert and James’ hope for their audiences as well. Pickett, Rohto, and of many of the others interviewed frequently contemplate their own accountability for the death of De Luna and others. It may be this element of the film that sobers even the staunchest supporter of capital punishment.

Review by Victoria Large | Comment

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