Silent Souls: Cinema might be the best medium yet for conveying the symbolic nature of cultural forms, and Siberian director Aleksei Fedorchenko's lovely adaptation of Aist Sergeyev's 'The Buntings' is a case in point. The Merjan (Russian/Finnish) burial at the center of this lyrical film doubles as ritual for the vanishing culture itself, but it is not a complex or sophisticated film - its virtues lie in its simplicity, its physicality, its poetry, its tenderness, and its quiet beauty. Some of its scenes and images - the drowned typewriter, the ribbon ceremony, the incredible choral scene, the naive poems - are pure illuminations, limpid and inspired.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
SFIFF54: 'Silent Souls'
Silent Souls: Cinema might be the best medium yet for conveying the symbolic nature of cultural forms, and Siberian director Aleksei Fedorchenko's lovely adaptation of Aist Sergeyev's 'The Buntings' is a case in point. The Merjan (Russian/Finnish) burial at the center of this lyrical film doubles as ritual for the vanishing culture itself, but it is not a complex or sophisticated film - its virtues lie in its simplicity, its physicality, its poetry, its tenderness, and its quiet beauty. Some of its scenes and images - the drowned typewriter, the ribbon ceremony, the incredible choral scene, the naive poems - are pure illuminations, limpid and inspired.
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