Posts tagged: Winter Silence

MWFF’09 Review: Winter Silence

Sonja Wyss’ Winter Silence (Winterstilte) is a hard film to review. At only seventy minutes, it managed to try my patience as well as frustrate my innate want to piece together the visual puzzle before me. Largely silent and set in a remote wintry mountain village, there is little plot development but much symbolic imagery. As a piece of visual art, it succeeds: the beautiful and haunting images are unforgettable; but it suffers from feeling all too much like a show of experimental pieces without any cohesive point. Read more »

categories Film Festivals, Film Reviews | datetime August 30, 2009 | No Comments »

MWFF’09 Film Report #1

As writing out reviews is an involved process, by the time I manage to publish them readers have no way of actually going out to watch these movies (especially at festivals such as MWFF where they may never see release). At Midnight Poutine you can read my quick impressions of recently viewed movies as well as when they play again, in anticipation of longer reviews to come.

categories Film Festivals | datetime August 29, 2009 | No Comments »

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