Director: Caleska Grisebach
120 mins, Germany-Bulgaria, 2017, Digital, Subtitled
This film was released 13th April 2018, and is no longer screening.
This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.
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Tensions erupt between German construction workers and Bulgarian villagers in Valeska Grisebach’s (Longing) long-awaited third feature, the title of which deliberately invokes the legacy of classic Hollywood frontier sagas.
Western is a supremely confident slow-burn drama touching upon questions of masculinity, communication and modern German identity.
(Notes by David O’Mahony.)
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