For those with a sudden interest in new German cinema thanks to last year’s Toni Erdmann, the Cannes Film Festival has again selected another powerful, deeply human and intricately political drama in Valeska Grisebach’s terrific Western. Like Maren Ade, with whom she has collaborated, Grisebach has made two films—the lovely graduation short feature Be My Star (2001) and Longing (2006), a small town tale of a fireman’s love life—with long pauses in between. Western comes more than a decade after her first proper feature, and it confirms that the director is as talented as ever.The setting is a German worker camp in the modern day Bulgarian countryside, and, as as the title daringly states, this is indeed a "western." The isolated Germans are the encroaching (economic) colonizers—“we come here to work,” they say, flush with money and a reputation dating from the Second World War...
- 5/27/2017
- MUBI
Meinhard Neumann and Syuleyman Alilov Letifov.For those with a sudden interest in new German cinema thanks to last year’s Toni Erdmann, the Cannes Film Festival has again selected another powerful, deeply human and intricately political drama in Valeska Grisebach’s terrific Western. Like Maren Ade, with whom she has collaborated, Grisebach has made two films—the lovely graduation short feature Be My Star (2001) and Longing (2006), a small town tale of a fireman’s love life—with long pauses in between. Western comes more than a decade after her first proper feature, and it confirms the director as talented as ever.The setting is a German worker camp in the modern day Bulgarian countryside, and, as as the title daringly states, this is indeed a "western." The isolated Germans are the encroaching (economic) colonizers—“we come here to work,” they say, flush with money and a reputation dating from...
- 5/22/2017
- MUBI
This year’s Cannes Film Festival may still be searching for a new feature than can provide the sort of pure pleasure that Maren Ade’s breakout “Toni Erdmann” did in 2016, but fans of nuanced cinema about fraught relationships will be able to tap into something slightly similar in the latest from producers Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merit, Ben von Dobeneck, Bruno Wagner and Ade herself.
Hailing from some of the same producers of “Toni Erdmann,” Valeska Grisebach’s Un Certain Regard entry “Western” shines a light on the unnerving xenophobia that is still prevalent in parts of Europe.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Per the film’s official synopsis, “A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure,...
Hailing from some of the same producers of “Toni Erdmann,” Valeska Grisebach’s Un Certain Regard entry “Western” shines a light on the unnerving xenophobia that is still prevalent in parts of Europe.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Per the film’s official synopsis, “A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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