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France, the Alps…To most people, this means snow, skiing and holidays. Hardly anyone would think of madness, hatred and crime. However, such is the true nature of the Alps according to living legend of French cinematography Luc Moullet who invites his spectators to the landscape of madness with an ironic smile.
Three Men and a Fish Pond
DIR:
Maris Maskalans,
Laila Pakalniņa
2008 /
Latvia
/ 52 min
Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.
Director’s note
I received a spam „Gold Dust Sold”. I recited these words like a poem – gold, dust and sold. Till I caught myself at a thought, to refer to film theorists’ texts, that I was influenced by something like Kuleshov’s (others call it Eisenstein’s) effect – two images create the third one. In this case the three words create everything. Or three men create everything. That the water is wet, the morning is early and the space between stench and scent is reality. And that at least occasionally one should get up and leave one’s daily life. Not go too far but where there are people, birds, grass, trees, work, holidays, joys, sorrows, running, stopping. Perhaps this film is rather very simple instead of very complicated – about our physical and spiritual understanding of the world simultaneously. It is about the fact that there are people. And also birds, and fog, the sun, night and so on. That everything exists.
Laila Pakalnina
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| Director | Maris Maskalans, Laila Pakalniņa |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Māris Maskalāns |
| Dir. of Photography | Māris Maskalāns |
| Editing | Laila Pakalniņa, Māris Maskalāns |
| Music | |
| Sound | Anrijs Krenbergs, Arvīds Ceļmalis |
| Duration | 52 min |
| Year | 2008 |
| Country | Latvia |
| Colour | Colour |
| Tags | nature, observational, rural society, student |
| Production |
Vides Filmu Studija
Vides Filmu Studija
Address: Lapu str. 17 City: LV-1002 Riga Country: Latvia Web: www.vfs.lv/ E-mail: Phone: +371 67503588 |
| Distribution |
Vides Filmu Studija
Vides Filmu Studija
Address: Lapu str. 17 City: LV-1002 Riga Country: Latvia Web: www.vfs.lv/ E-mail: Phone: +371 67503588 |
| Festivals |
Premiere at Locarno IFF ... Premiere at Locarno IFF 2008 |
| Awards |
Awarded Best Film and ... Awarded Best Film and Best Cinematographer at Black Nights FF (Estonia) |
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