Mothers: Berlin review

Director Milcho Manchevski reflects the uncertainty of truth in an experimental triptych, their emotional Grip more than the philosophy, is under is.

Film Festival Berlin (Panorama)

Milcho Manchevski

Emilija Stojkovska, Miljana Bogdanoska, DIME Ilijev, Ana Stojanovska, Ratka Radmanovic

BERLIN - Macedonian Director Milcho Manchevski continues to his distinctive artistic way in his fourth function in the mothers, is that of women of all shapes and sizes, not just maternal figures. Structured in three parts, such as Oscar nominated debuted before the rain, fiction (the first two episodes) mixes you with documentation for an interesting result that is more than of the film the underlying philosophical questions convincingly.

Manchevski says mothers was inspired by the artwork of Robert Rauschenberg , and is about the nature of truth, in particular our very subjective perception of the truth. Perception of reality are has designs for experimental filmmakers, but despite the highbrow concept of mothers, the film the three sections are relatively linear and hit home on emotional rather than intellectual level.

However, unorthodox structure of the film makes the director's most theatrical limited work it until today. Mothers are happy, without of narrow intellectual circles screen.

All three episodes are in Macedonia, set the first (also the shortest and most vulnerable) in the capital city Skopje. Though the intimidation of BEA (Emilija Stojkovska) and her Sidekick Kjara (Miljana Bogdanoska) in fact the man not, which her friend close to their primary school flashed see, choose to report the event to the police. You stop on the way to buy some shoes and the station, take pictures of themselves on their mobile phones. The girls play with the truth, until someone hurt calls, but are not one of the more serious questions about the power and how reality can be produced in original and developed way.

The second and strongest part is region, a documentary film about dying rural traditions of a small TV crew travel to Mavrovo in Central-West of the country. You can find the perfect topics in a deserted village with only two then-a (Salaetin Bilal) old brother and sister (Ratka Gerald), which since 16 years spoken have not. The crew has an own intrigues and: sound engineer Simon (Demetrius Gjorgjievski) is in love with camera woman Ana (Ana Stojanovska), who is sleeping with the Director (Vladimir Jacev).

During Manchevski us the nature of the SIBS feud ponder would have, is the story of the real power in his portrayal of social change. The brother and sister living is in the modern world, a colorful bit of folklore for the bemused, urban filmmakers all but disappeared.

That women have come a long way and are basically still the same also demonstrated no longer explicitly the differences between the free-spirited, 20-something Ana and the older woman who speaks your dirty jokes, cracks as you arranged marriage. The only one to feel a maternal pull out of the old woman, Ana starts a friendship that goes beyond the documentary.

All of the actors are pretty good, but the episode is one of the Stojanovska and Gerald. At the age of to see how more than 100, is longingly access its performance.

The third installment in mothers is a TV-style documentary about a serial killer from the town of Kicevo, raped and murdered three women in the 1960s. Although the story in the international press 2008 ran like a puzzle, crafted, it offers interviews with the families of the victims from the disclosure of the alleged offender, Vlado Taneski, a respected crime reporter who lived next to the three women and wrote about their murders.

Truth and fiction mix at several levels here, not least of which in considered the confidence instilled Taneski in its neighbors, and his guilt still disputed today. But Manchevski goes too far with police footage of the corpses in the segment. Such images are free, the families of the victims also disrespectful.

As in before the rain items from each segment in the other, are Manchevski's recurring idea of the cyclical nature of life itself still another level add woven.

Venue: International Film Festival Berlin (Panorama)
Studio: Banana film
Cast: Emilija Stojkovska, Miljana Bogdanoska, DIME Ilijev, Marina Pankova, Goran Trifunovksi, Ana Stojanovska, Vladimir Jacev, Dmitar Gjorgjievski, Ratka Radmanovic, Salaetin Bilal
Director screenwriter: Milcho Manchevski
Producer: Christina Kalla.
Director of photography: Vladimir Samoilovski
Production designer: David Munns
Music: Igor Vasilev Novogradska
Costumes: Elisabetta Montaldo
Publisher: Žaklina Stojcevska
Sell: Rendez-vous images
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