Afternoon (Nachmittag)

ты ощущаешь летний полдень раньше, чем понимаешь, что он настал: жара, нагретые окна веранды, давящая тишина и прерывистое дыхание людей, которые забыли, зачем собрались в этом доме каждый кадр этого фильма насыщен летом: только что из сада ягоды, которые хочется съесть…

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"Perhaps I'm exaggerating, but... Sometimes I feel nothing but fear." Apparently, Angela Schanelec is not only an amazing director and writer, but also a fantastic actress. This movie borders perfection in its imperfection. 'Afternoon' is a true mixed experience of…

Anastasia ✄

When seen by the point of view of nature, all human drama is both small and so vast.

Filipe Furtado

Watching this was an experience that felt quite similar to the first time I saw a Haneke-film. The similarity not only derives from the natural feel of its sound and images but also its eerie quietness - eerie because of the tension of frustrated anger simmering beneath the…

sayhelloPete

there is nothing more melancholic than being made to feel like an individual In a plastically depotentialised world where everyone is mired in their own unrelenting sense of self and power has foreclosed re-existentialising relational movements, whatever your behaviour…

lykonos

Frames action in the way that you truly experience it in real life: just outside of frame and too quick to notice what's really going on.

Sophy

Schanelec herself stars in her fifth feature, a characteristically sensuous and tense reworking of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. An estranged family of artists meets for a holiday rendezvous at a villa in Potsdam, including selfish theater actor Irene (Schanelec), her…

Film at Lincoln Center

Added to: Angela Schanelec Ranked The first Angela Schanelec film that has some sort of grip on me. I'm not entirely sure why I can't seem to connect to her films though. I feel like it's the incredible and sometimes eerie stillness of it but then again there are enough…

𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕞 𝕧𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕖𝕣 ℤ𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕟

Schanelec makes images of profound absence even when the frame is crowded. I can’t explain it. Most shots feel like islands even when part of a linear sequence. Characters are lonesome even when they’re right next to each other.

Kai Perrignon