Little, Big, and Far
Even after reading a couple of reviews and watching the trailer, it’s difficult to understand what the Austrian film Little, Big, and Far is actually about. So here’s the official synopsis:
Austrian astronomer Karl is at a crossroads in his life and work. He finds his physicist wife growing distant and his job being reshaped by environmental crises as thoughts about science, fascism, and his grandson’s future spin above his head. After attending a conference in Greece, Karl decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a dark enough sky to reconnect with the stars. Abandoned at a remote mountain trail, he ascends and waits for darkness to fall.
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I'm super curious about this film, and have been trying to get our local art-house cinema to screen this, so far to no avail.
... in the meantime, I can *highly* recommend playing this film (a motion video made from images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft), with the sound off, while listening to John and Alice Coltrane's "Manifestation"; this combo inspired by the reverse-shot review.
Thanks for the heads-up! Mr. Cohen’s 2013 film, “Museum Hours,” starring the Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara is a little-seen classic (currently streaming on Criterion and Kanopy) IMHO.
I saw this at MIFF (Melbourne) and unfortunately I didn’t enjoy it. Here’s what I wrote at the time:
This one seemed to want to project an otherworldly feel, but it was boring - three disconnected, monotonous narratives that ended up going nowhere. The astronomer’s radical politics, and his politics relation to his science, was genuinely interesting, and a focus on this, his wife, or his friend’s romantic relationship would have made it more interesting. Lots of people walked out, I assume because they were bored.
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