Monthly Archives: September, 2011

We've been keeping tabs on this husband-wife filmmaking team the first time we herd about them via Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of 2007...

"...its simplicity is only skin deep and its nightmarish melancholy isn’t as simple to casually term as more or less accessible. While it’s not Solondz’s strongest or best feature, it’s an earnestly rendered film and it is of course, filmed with his offbeat, trademark style."

Solondz does arrested development.

Happy, Happy is one of the most captivating explorations of married couples that one can hope to see. The devil’s in the details, and Sewitsky manages to pack an amazing amount of subtlety into the 88 minute running time. And one cannot rave enough about the amazing performance of Agnes Kittelsen, whose always present smile and indefatigable will to be happy is both a survival mechanism for her character and the driving force of the film.

"In Russian filmmaker Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls the camera orbits around and points our glances at areas of interest. The color is as expressive of the themes and story as the action is—as many shades of grey in here as Michael Mann had shades of black in Collateral."