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GERMAN CINEMA NOW! Limbo [In-Person Only]
Fri Mar 11: 7.30pm PDT
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Anna Sofie Hartmann
Denmark & Germany
2014
1h 20m
Series - GERMAN CINEMA NOW!
Visiting Artist
** Director in attendance! **
About
GERMAN CINEMA NOW!, a celebration of the bold, new, and fantastic in German and transnational cinema, is a monthly film series presented by Goethe Pop Up Seattle. In 2022, GCN! explores states of (apparent) stasis, sameness, and standstill, inviting viewers to look closely at the countless dynamic processes that are always underway, just beneath the surface.
In the beginning, we see facesreal skin, real smiles, bright, uncertain eyes. Moving around a fluorescent-lighted room, they speak, trading lines from Sophocles Antigone, the ancient tragedy of a frail girl emerging who tiptoes through a no mans land and dooms herself out of duty. We are there, in the terrible, electrifying intimacy of high school drama, in the Danish town of Nakskov, surrounded by industry, industrialized agriculture, and a working harbor. These high school students live in dorms and eat kebab, drink beer, and flirt while decoding what their lives will look likeand, just as important, learn from media and society what it is to be men and women. In this liminal place, a young woman with a mysterious smile, Sara (Annika Nuka Mathiassen), forms a fascination with unconventional drama teacher Karen (Sofia Nolso), and this fascination grows into something richer and strangera longing for connection, perhaps, or love.
Anything but a conventional coming-of-age story or queer romance, writer-director Anna Sofie Hartmanns debut feature is more interested in imparting the experience of places, groups, and institutionssights, sounds, haptics, the texture of lifethan with genre tropes. Through careful, steady photographic composition and rich, sometimes strange soundscapes, we are drawn into the poetry of tumbling rocks at a construction site, the boiling of sugar at a factory, the slow passage of a tilled and dull land as seen from a moving train. The films aestheticization of the lives and events it depicts is immersive, not decorative. And when Limbos characters find and lose the way towards each other, themselves, and a meaningful future, the effect is all the more shocking for being so grounded in place. (Martin Schwartz)
(Anna Sofie Hartmann, Denmark & Germany, 2014, 80 min, in Danish with English subtitles)
The reliably productive San Sebastian section entitled and dedicated to New Directors has unearthed yet another promising talent in the form of Denmarks Anna Sofie Hartmann, whose Berlin film-school project Limbo transcends its blandly generic title and amply justifies its presence at a major European festival. The Hollywood Reporter, Neil Young
[Q]uite an original film in the sense of both form and approach. A real low-key slow burner, it leaves the viewer with more of a profound than a strong, sudden impression, building up after the film, rather than during the viewing experience itself. Cineuropa, Vladan Petkovic
About the director:
Born 1984 ASH grew up in Nakskov, Denmark. A graduate of the German Film und Television Academy Berlin, her first feature film LIMBO (2014) premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and subsequently showed at among others the IFF Rotterdam, SXSW and Copenhagen PIX, before being nominated for a European Discovery Award at the 2015 European Film Awards. Her second feature GIRAFFE (2019), produced by Komplizen Film and co-produced by Profile Pictures, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and showed at among others San Sebastian IFF, Mar del Plata IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, CPH PIX and the Viennale, where is received the FIPRESCI prize. She is the recipient of grants from Nordisk Film Fondet, Lolland Kommunes Kunstlegat, the German National Academic Foundation, The Arts Council of Denmark and the Villa Aurora. She lives in Berlin.
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