Amelia (2003)
Amelia (2003)
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 4578 Kbps | 59mn 54s | 2,37 Gb
Score AC3 5.0 @ 640 Kbps + English and Français Commentaries
Genre: Drama, Musical | Director: Édouard Lock
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 4578 Kbps | 59mn 54s | 2,37 Gb
Score AC3 5.0 @ 640 Kbps + English and Français Commentaries
Genre: Drama, Musical | Director: Édouard Lock
The multi-award-winning dance film Amelia (2002), directed and choreographed by Edouard Lock and performed by the acclaimed dance company La La La Human Steps, explores the use of point technique using extended intertwining solos, complex partnering sequences and extreme speed to generate powerful performances with unexpected moments of tender emotion and serenity.
IMDB - 7 wins
First of all, it needs to be pointed out that the movie does not, repeat NOT, bear any relationship to the capsule description being displayed on the current pages. It's pretty clear that an error was made and that the user tried to review another movie.
What we do have, is superb modern dancing, sublimely filmed. Direction, choreography, dance, music, costumes, lighting, set - everything is a part of an organic and immersive whole. It's a "total work of art", as our German neighbors like to call it. Still, it would be wrong to think about the movie as something Wagnerian: the whole atmosphere, aesthetics included, is distinctly minimalist.
This kind of "less is more" attitude has spawned a number of egregiously boring performances, just as it has spawned a number of egregiously boring movies. In "Amelia", however, the minimalism turns into an artistic triumph. The main set, for instance, is an unremarkable space, as bland and neutral as a white canvas. As the work progresses the hugely intelligent lighting changes the room into a mother's womb, a tunnel leading into light, a tunnel leading into darkness, a tunnel leading into nothingness, a hall of mirrors, a prisoner's cell, a monk's cell, the inside of someone's mind, the inside of your own mind, a ballroom, a grave, an alien heaven, a lover's bed, a hole in the ground, a moving toy shop, a mystic vision, a shard of moonlight; the room blinks in and out of existence, changes, morphs, flattens itself, becomes so large that you can't see it anymore. It's a master class in set design and lighting.
The austere charms of "Amelia" won't appeal to everyone: it's an alien, hermetic, almost secretive work of art. However, the patient and open-minded viewer is richly rewarded.
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Amelia (2003)
Commentaries:
– a fantastic commentary by Édouard Lock where he deconstructs Amelia and explains how most everything in the film was achieved (from the camerawork to the complex choreography to the actual lighting, etc). Mr. Lock also mentions the original version of the film, which was introduced in Prague in 2002 (in French and English)