A Swedish film won the Golden Lion for Best Film, the highest prize awarded at the 71st Venice film festival which ended here on Saturday.
En duva satt pa en gren och funderade pa tillvaron (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) by Swedish director Roy Andersson is the story of two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items.
The salesmen are an unlikely pair who sell grotesque party masks and quarrel continuously, like a modern Don Quixote and Sancho. Sam, who considers himself the brains of the operation, ceaselessly patronizes his companion. Jonathan is slow and phlegmatic, finding happiness in the simple act of eating. The pair inspires hilarity through a series of rich and surprising events. They show to the audience beauty in one moment, pettiness in another, as well as the humor and tragedy within humanity and life's grandeur next to human frailty.
"The film has 39 scenes, and my ambition is that each can deliver an artistic experience to the audience," Andersson said. "It aims to generate reflection and contemplation, regarding our existence with a large slice of tragicomedy, lust for life, and a fundamental respect for human existence," the director added.
Rising French star Paul Romain won best young actor prize for his role as a boy who meets his father in Alex Delaport's Le Dernier Coup de Marteau.
DUTCH VERSION
Gouden Leeuw voor Roy Andersson's A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE en de Marcello Mastroianni Award voor Beste Jonge Acteur of Actrice ging naar Romain Paul voor zijn rol in LE DERNIER COUP DE MARTEAU van Alix Delaporte
A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE van regisseur Roy Andersson ('You, the Living', 'A Swedish Love Story') ontving afgelopen zaterdag op het Filmfestival van Venetië de Gouden Leeuw voor Beste Film.
Zeven jaar na 'You, the Living' komt Roy Andersson, de koning van de absurde Zweedse humor, met een nieuwe film.
'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence' volgt een verkoper van bizarre gadgets en zijn mentaal onstabiele kompaan. Als een moderne reïncarnatie van Don Quichote en Sancho Panza nemen zij ons mee op een kaleidoscopische tocht langs de humor en tragiek in elk van ons. Ondertussen reflecteren ze over de absurditeit van het leven, met al zijn grandeur en zijn kwetsbaarheid.
Romain Paul, de jonge hoofdacteur uit LE DERNIER COUP DE MARTEAU van Alix Delaporte ('Angèle et Tony') mocht dan weer de Marcello Mastroianni Award in ontvangst nemen.
De 14-jarige Victor woont met z'n moeder in een caravan op een strand in Zuid-Frankrijk. Hij heeft zijn vader nooit gekend en maakt zichzelf wijs dat hij hem ook niet nodig heeft. Maar wanneer hij hoort dat z'n vader, een bekend dirigent, in de nabijheid aan het repeteren is met zijn orkest, voelt Victor plots wel de drang om een band met hem te ontwikkelen.
Releasedatum in België: 11 maart 2015
What's the first thing a musician says when he moves to LA?
"Would you like fries with that sir?"
The new album by True Zebra will be made available on october 13.
ADOREMOTION is the second album by multi-intrumentalistic producer Kevin Strauwen.
Electrock Recordings will be releasing a very limited and personal hard copy edition including 9 tracks.
The album can be ordered at the True Zebra site and at some of the finest indie record stores.
The standard album 8 tracks will be available at the most popular digital stores.
True Zebra: ADOREMOTION
1. Push
2. Shame
3. Forget
4. Feel
5. Hunt
6. Happen
7. Lose
8. Transition
9. Make (*Limited edition only)
Written, recorded, produced and performed by Kevin Strauwen.
True Zebra is Kevin Strauwen.
A musician, songwriter, engineer and producer who received excellent reviews
with his official self-released digital debut album as True Zebra.
Conceived as rock but mistaken with electronic tries and techniques,
True Zebra transmutes an alternative view into the electro rock and dance scene
with tight-grooves, industrial-esque rhythms and spookish melodies.
True Zebra's live reputation is becoming clearly visible.
Leaving behind memorable impressions and performances at Ancienne Belgique, Trix and many others.
Currently a resident in Belgium.
A-Film has given us 5 duotickets and 5 bags from the movie "Party Girl"
by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq & Claire Burger!
This movie was one of the biggest surprises in Cannes.
A lot of you knew the proper answer to our contest,
but only the following persons were randomly selected as our winners :
FOLLOWING WINNERS (10x):
Cindy E., Zonhoven, duotickets
Bart V., Oostende, duotickets
Mike S., Bornem, duotickets
Fons V., Bouwel, duotickets
Allard F., nalinnes, duotickets
Pascale D., braine le comte, Pary Girl bag
Kyra T., braine le comte, Pary Girl bag
Sylvia P., Zaventem, Pary Girl bag
Karen L., Wulpen, Pary Girl bag
Britta V., De Klinge, Pary Girl bag
The prices were (just) sent out, the winners should receive them this week.
For the winners : enjoy the prices & for the rest, visit your local cinema to see "Party Girl".
Sean Ragon has been active in the DIY punk, industrial and experimental music communities on the east coast for over 15 years while also running a record store and label in Brooklyn (Heaven Street and Blind Prophet Records, respectively). He has been recording under the moniker of Cult of Youth for the last seven years.
Ragon, once the project’s lone member, is now flanked by Jasper McGandy on bass and Christian Kount on electric guitar (both of whom were members of seminal Sacred Bones band The Hunt). Cory Flannigan on drums and Paige Flash on cello complete the five-piece. The end result is Cult of Youth as they were always meant to sound.
For their third full-length for Sacred Bones, Cult of Youth have delved deeper into their style of punk-influenced psychedelic neofolk and created a self-described “post-industrial Pet Sounds.” Using acoustic and electronic instruments, found sounds and an extensive tribal rhythm section, Cult of Youth have put it all out on the table and left us with their magnum opus.
The contributions of the new members are evident on every track on Final Days, from the anthemic “Empty Faction” to the gorgeous album closer “Roses.” Final Days is the culmination of everything Cult of Youth has been moving towards the past seven years — post-industrial, post-punk, and post-enlightenment.
soundcloud.com/sacredbones/cult-of-youth-empty-faction/s-spZlz
Here is the newest clip from Frank Weyzig aka Born For Bliss.
Looks like traditional gothwave has meet the industrial NIN-sound, not?
Born For Bliss - Innocent (Official Video) from BOB-MEDIA GmbH & Co. KG on Vimeo.
