Now I really should get started on that review of the film "Nachttocht", or on the other film "Gutta boys"...or on the rare Russian movie... 4 months ago
Now relaxing, soon I should write the review of "Nachttocht". Or maybe tomorrow or the day after that, I need a vacation! 4 months ago
Now watching the Dutch film "Nachttocht", seems pretty good! 4 months ago
Yeah...! finally got home from work! now having coffee wondering what next film I will watch and review....hm??? 4 months ago
The first hour of the film is made like a documentary of rural life in an Eskimo-like community on the northern Siberian coast. The other part of the film is a slowly progressive drama about a boy, his father and two other men going out for a boat trip to hunt some seals on a remote island off the coast. They are travelling in a handmade wooden boat, with only the sky to navigate from. After a successful hunting they head back for the village. However they are surprised by bad weather and are swept into a heavy fog that will last for days. With nothing to eat and the water supply running out, the men are starting to sacrifice themselves one by one for the little boy. This is a slow film, with almost no dialogue, but this is a unique piece of authentic social anthropology. Of course it is also a nice coming of age portrait about the boy. The film was made in 1990, an the director is Karen Gevorkian.
It feels rather unusual to review a coming of age film from Malaysia, but this film from 2007 was no disappointment. This is a great Asian film about two boys, Li Ahn and Li Ohm. Throughout the film the main focus is on the lives of the two brothers, when they are in school, meeting new friends and so on. It took a while before I realised that they actually lived with their father, who mostly is at work and just come home to sleep what it seems. The boys have to manage themselves pretty much, even though they´re a bit too young for that. However later on in the film we´ll follow some new development of the relationship with their absent father.
* Country: Malaysia
* Release: 2007
* Director: Liew Seng Tat
* Actors: Zi Jiang Wong (Li Ohm), Ming Wei Lim (Li Ahn)
* Award: Tiger Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival (2008)
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