by
Julien Faddoul
The Last Five Years
A
struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and
deconstruction of their love affair.
An abysmal, clumsily filmed version
of the stage musical that does nothing but heighten the source material’s
flaws.
wd
– Richard LaGravenese (Based on the
Musical by Jason Robert Brown)
ph
– Steven Meizler
pd
– Michael Fitzgerald
m
– Jason Robert Brown
ed
– Sabine Hoffmann
cos
– Ciera Wells
p
– Janet Brenner, Kurt Deutsch, Richard LaGravenese, Lauren Versel
Cast:
Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Meg Hudson, Natalie Knepp, Cat Lynch
Phoenix **
A
disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial
reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who
might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Well-constructed, classically
massaged piece of post-war allegory with beats that never advance from the
predetermined.
d – Christian
Petzold
w – Christian
Petzold, Harun Farocki (Based on the
Novel by Hubert Monteilhet)
ph – Hans
Fromm
pd – Kade Gruber
m – Stefan Will
m – Stefan Will
ed – Bettina
Bohler
cos – Anette
Guther
p – Florian
Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Cast:
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina
Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge
Actress ***
Brandy
Burre, a retired actress, decides to reclaim her life as an actor, at which
point the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her.
A difficult film to characterize: a
documentary that invites one to constantly question its authenticity. However,
Greene’s accessibility to his subject (he was Burre’s neighbour) brings an acute
vividness while always flirting with expectations, both in the chronicling and
the craft.
d
– Robert Greene
ph
– Robert Greene
ed
– Robert Greene
p
– Robert Greene, Susan Bedusa, Douglas Tirola
Cast:
Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson
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