Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Vertical Ray of the Sun

zondag, 9 oktober

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Vertical Ray of the Sun

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Vertical Ray of the Sun * Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng / À la verticale de l'été * 2000 * by Tran Anh Hung * 112 minutes * In Vietnamese with English subtitles
doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30.

Most American movies these days have huge stories, and zero content. This movie is exactly the opposite, and in some ways is closer to European cinema of the 1960s. Here the story is minimal, but it is done in such a lush way. Even when it starts raining it feels like a shower of silver, not like the gloomy rainfalls here in Europe. To put it simply, poetry is still intact, and there is an engagement to the bigger picture of life, something lacking in more narrative driven movies. This is the kind of film you can sink into body and soul.

Although the film has a lush exotic mood, it doesn't get carried away with its exoticism, and breaks the borders between East and West by bringing in elements of Western culture. For example, a Velvet Underground tune that pops up. The reason this diversity is possible is that the director grew up in Vietnam until he was 12, and then moved to France. So he has a double identity, and in his movies he brings together the best of both worlds.

On the surface it is about three sisters who meet in Hanoi over the course of a month on the anniversary after their parents' deaths. In these encounters secrets about the past are revealed. But the real meat is the ultra-sensual mood, and its feeling of incredible harmony with the environment. it doesn't have a conventional approach to narrative story telling... instead it's more a mosaic of small intimate moments, and the power of images to communicate a sense of life.

Datum & tijd: 

zondag, 9 oktober, 2022 - 20:30

Categorie: 

  • film
Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Nederland

Wegbeschrijving: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

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Sinds juni 2005 is Joe's Garage een autonoom gekraakt politiek sociaal centrum, een ontmoetingsplaats in de Transvaal buurt voor krakers en niet-krakers, subsidievrij, zonder winstoogmerk, zelf georganiseerd en volledig gerund door vrijwilligers.

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  • advies/hulp/spreekuur / boekwinkel/info shop/bibliotheek / cursus/workshop / discussie/presentatie / tentoonstelling / film / eten / weggeefwinkel / bijeenkomst / muziek / theater

opening times: 

(Maart 2024):
Maandag: 19u, Volkseten Vegazulu
Dinsdag: 19u/20u30, Kraakspreekuur Oost
Woensdag: 18u/22u, Esperanto les of Proxy Cafe
Donderdag: 19u, Volkseten Vegazulu
Vrijdag: 20u, Aman molli, muziekworkshop
Zaterdag: 14u/18u, Weggeefwinkel
Zondag: 18u/20u, Radical Sunday School
Zondag: 20u30, Filmavond
Elke 2e zaterdag van de maand, 19:00-20:30, Joe's Garage open vergadering

Weekly programme of film screenings in a circuit of underground / self-organised venues. Forgotten movies that should have been classics, neglected flics, lesser-known gems, always with a personal introduction by the programmer. All films in English, or with English subtitles.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

mostly Sunday to Thursday at about 7 different underground locations.