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Curling (Theater Review)

Curling

Curling in the 63rd Locarno Film Festival shown and there won the Golden Leopard for best director and best leading actor.

Content:

The 12-year-old Julyvonne (Philomène Bilodeau) is not a normal child. From her father, Jean-François (Emmanuel Bilodeau) it is guarded as his eyeball, while their mother in the psychiatric Institute sits. They live in the suburb of a town in Quebec. Julyvonne almost never leaves the house and was taught at home her whole life - but only with moderate success, because they can not even solve the simplest math problem. Nevertheless, her father is convinced that a public school is not right for his daughter.
Jean-François has a day job in a bowling alley, at night in a seedy motel, but also little contact with society. Only after a series of incidents, he begins to realize that something is wrong in his life. But while his daughter is already making their own development, after the dismal forest Fund has made.

criticism

Denis Côté is not exactly known for being more readily accessible films. Nevertheless Curling could compared to his other works are more suitable for the mass, but thanks to the fact that he wakes up on a content as on a formal level associations with Fargo . On the one hand, the number of morbid and bizarre plot elements, on the other hand, it takes place in a snowy, remote suburban area. Much more common are there but not as Fargo course, much more of the classic Hollywood narrative structure is required.

Côté contrast tells his film in a very few, very long shots. These are then usually very static and quiet, so they could count the beginning without any problems. Also stands out from the beginning of the artistic intention to portray loneliness and isolation, as if on an icy road appears in an endless field of snow, the film title. This is already established that visual core issue is to permeate the whole film: the color white. This can be found virtually everywhere - in nature, on the deserted streets or in bare interiors. Often the images seem almost as if they had been painted with some color to a blank, white canvas. Thus, the viewing public to cold and harshness of the world inside and outside of the figures made it abundantly clear.

So while the art work was paid very close attention to what is shown on the assembly rather what is not just shown. We learn little about the background of the characters, and are within the story partly skipped sudden events. Shall renounce Côté aware of a rounded narrative flow and expected the audience to take initiative and to care of themselves for what happened. This is somewhat difficult because the basic problem is indeed given his history, however, merely indicated.

From the beginning you can feel that behind the facade of harmonious father-daughter relationship is something wrong. You wait a certain extent, to an explosion, which solves the problems, or at least disclose what of Côté also aware - are denied - presumably out of conviction. Everything remains vague and imprecise. Finally, it leaves Côté then by pointing to a possible healing process. The problem with Curling is less that he reduced his story telling and restrained, but that this very banal and somehow in the end is irrelevant.

rounded about 6 out of 10