Review: Pina

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Pina


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“Indeed, musicals incorporate a narrative skeleton to window-dress their songs & dance; here, there is no such thing. It’s a complete distillation of the genre – packing in the euphoria, abandoning the obligatory connective tissue. In that sense, Pina is cinema bliss. If only it didn’t feel like Bausch’s work could been replaced by Master Choreographer X, this might have been a winner.”

Blake Williams
Blake Williams
Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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