Film
Western

Carte Blanche to Denis Côté

Sun, 02/10/2019
2:00 PM Cinéma du Parc

director: Valeska Grisebach, Germany, 2017, 119 min.
With: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov.

German and Bulgarian with French subtitles. 
 
The latest film by talented filmmaker Valeska Grisebach was launched at Cannes in 2017 in the section Un Certain Regard. A group of German workers at a rural Bulgarian construction site are faced with their prejudice and mistrust of the locals due to language barriers and cultural differences. The stage is quickly set for a showdown.

"Western is a broodingly intelligent drama of culture clash"- Los Angeles Times

“Western is “the closest this festival (Cannes) came to a major work . . . Western never belabors its genre connections. Instead it recognizes the Western as a template for eternal conflicts, a sly awareness that enriches the film instead of fencing it in.” – Dennis Lim, Film Comment

“…intelligent, relevant, original and adventurous filmmaking.” – British Film Institut

Carte Blanche to Denis Côté