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This elegant, funny, richly satisfying portmanteau film from Latvia sees four talented directors take on the childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age of one character. As he grows and changes, some quirks and obsessions remain the same, including his strange affinity with birds (the title refers to the start of birdhunting season). With each filmmaker maintaining the mood but bringing his or her own cast to the story, this is a triumphant formal experiment.
http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1753This intriguing omnibus project from Latvia features contributions from four of the country’s most promising young filmmakers, each of whom depicts a different defining period — childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age — in a single individual’s life. The segments are loosely connected but also play against and reference each other to form a single narrative thread. The film’s subject, played by four different actors, is Teodors. A junior hockey star in his youth, a businessman in his maturity, and given to wandering the forests in both childhood and old age, Teodors struggles his entire life to find his place. The film’s title, Vogelfrei, is not a Latvian word but a German one, and means “free as a bird.” “The simple, unfussy storytelling and breathtaking photography relate universal themes and issues from four distinct voices that cohere nonetheless to tell a singular tale” (Pusan I.F.F.) Colour, 35mm, in Latvian and Russian with English subtitles. 95 mins.
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