The Extravagant Shadows (2012)
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Время выполнения : 2Ч 55М
Директор : David Gatten
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Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching in middair, an air which is Time—not an actual intersection, but with a consequence as powerful as predestination, a momentary fulfillment, a trail beyond mere pattern, like a streak of truth alive and uncontained, like something that runs through infinity slowing to leave condensation, sonority, a temperature. Lines crossing lines. Not there. There. Invisibilities smudging. Gesture and impression, optic suggestions, agents on and in the mind. Each with vibrations, dollops, whispers, throbs, particles and waves. A finger of pigment brushing a lip of language exchanging carriage supports, liquidities, fire. Moire of meanings. Micro settings in the heart. The time it takes. The very least one can say is to say The Extravagant Shadows is a major work. Humanly essential, adventurous and necessary.
Киноэссе популярной в шестидесятые американской рок-группы The Monkees на такие «жизненно важные» темы, как отношения с девушками, коммерциализация музыки, кинопроизводство и Вьетнам.
Леао, рабочий-гастарбайтер на лиссабонской стройке, падает в обморок, а обморок оборачивается двухмесячной комой. Мариана, молодая медсестра, ухаживает за пациентом и отправляется сопровождать его в возвращении на родину, на Кабо Верде, где нет нужных медикаментов, но наверняка есть родственники Леао. Мариана пытается раскрыть прошлое неподвижного пациента, оно становится ясным, то вновь запутывается, и заставляет ее каждый день смотреть на жизнь под новым углом. Пробуждение главного героя открывает новый виток спирали.
У 24-летней Ёсики нет бойфренда, зато есть работа в хорошей компании. Но Ёсика - не такая, как все девушки. По ночам она ищет аммониты и всё ещё остро переживает, вспоминая о первой школьной любви, парне по имени Ити. Привычный мирок девушки переворачивается с ног на голову, когда коллега Ни признаётся ей в своих чувствах.
Десятиминутная история любви с необычными персонажами. Жила-была прямая линия. И однажды случилось так, что она влюбилась в точку. Но точка не отвечала взаимностью воздыхателю. Линия казалась ей слишком простой, и куда приятней точке было общаться с витиеватой загогулиной, более интересной и привлекательной. Но прямая линия не была намерена сдаваться: она попыталась сформировать различные фигуры, начала гнуться в углы. Позже она продемонстрировала свои способности возлюбленной точке, и точка поняла главное — истинная красота происходит из порядка, а загогулина — не ее судьба. Точка и линия гораздо больше подходят друг другу.
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