Sound as time, memory, life and death, the latest sensorial slow cinema entry from the Thai auteur starring a restrained Tilda Swinton is beautiful, hypnotic, and a much-needed sedative for our discomforting times.
This survivalist tale balances its raw, primitive edge with a stylish and contemporary visual style, but like a fever dream, it is intense but also unfocused.
This powerful if violent narco-drama mediates between centuries-old tradition and outside forces that threaten to tear everyone apart.
Continue reading →While Herzog’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) spirals into insanity in the most inhospitable of places, Guerra’s work brings us deep into the Amazonian and asks of us to connect with the lost souls of its perished tribal inhabitants.
