tintin
[B]Joshua Oppenheimer (The Art of Killing) does it again with "The Look of Silence" !!![/B]
[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/27/the-look-of-silence-review-act-of-killing-venice-film-festival"]The Look of Silence: Act of Killing director's second film is as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review | Film | theguardian.com[/URL]
[url=http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/indonesia-massacre-iran-sanctions-impact-infuse-venice-film-offerings/]Indonesia Massacre, Iran Sanctions Impact Infuse Venice Film Offerings | The Jakarta Globe[/url]
Markit
Do we really need to dig around in history to find more massacres, cleansings and holocausts? As it is now I can hardly keep up with who is chopping of who's head or wiping out which religious or political minority.
I doubt seriously that they didn't put their name to the newest offering from fear of reprisal - more likely because it was as bad a movie as it's predecessor and nobody wanted to be associated with it.
But what do I know?
sherm
Alan Smithee
tintin
Joshua Oppenheimer does it again! “The Look of Silence, in your neighborhood movie theater (maybe somewhere in Bali).
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_ZHAs4M9k[/url]
tintin
For those lucky people in Ubud (and around) this coming Friday.
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For the first time in Ubud: A very special screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's astounding follow-up to 'The Act of Killing', THE LOOK OF SILENCE, and an exclusive live Q&A with Oppenheimer on the big screen via Skype, moderated by Bali-based filmmaker Daniel Ziv.
[With full English subtitles]
Synopsis
Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother’s murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
The Act of Killing exposed the consequences for all of us when we build our everyday reality on terror and lies. The Look of Silence explores what it is like to be a survivor in such a reality. Making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators. But presenting survivors as saintly in order to reassure ourselves that we are good is to use survivors to deceive ourselves. It is an insult to survivors’ experience, and does nothing to help us understand what it means to survive atrocity, what it means to live a life shattered by mass violence, and to be silenced by terror. To navigate this minefield of clichés, we have had to explore silence itself.
The result, The Look of Silence, is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror – a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken. Maybe the film is a monument to silence – a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken. Nothing will wake the dead. We must stop, acknowledge the lives destroyed, strain to listen to the silence that follows.
[URL="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthelookofsilence.com%2F&h=JAQHlRuKs&enc=AZOioug6q-pqP3etHIut0Chw8sS1GHGUx3EawwjN58PrpDIr_QTJVFM-0sa3UkYVQqo&s=1"]http://thelookofsilence.com/[/URL]
tintin
Is it being shown in Indonesia, and in Bali, in particular?
[url=http://thelookofsilence.com/]The Look of Silence[/url]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/07/joshua-oppenheimer-the-look-of-silence-interview-indonesia]Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields | Film | The Guardian[/url]
Markit
Nope, not that I've seen but I really don't think it's a stadium filler or a telephone box filler for that matter.
davita
Currently there is an interview by CNN's Christiane Amanpour of Joshua Oppenheimer (film maker) with some excerpts and interviews about the film. I'm sure it will be repeated.
ronb
I can find the movie, but so far no subtitles.
