Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film and visual art exhibition has assumed near-mythic status as one of the strangest endeavours in European film history.
Dau, the long-gestating and controversial series of feature films and visual art projects and live installations by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, is gearing up to launch in the neighbouring Theatre du Chatelet and Theatre de la Ville theatres in Paris on January 24. The event will run non-stop, for 24 hours a day, until February 17.
The project, originally conceived as a $3m arthouse film biopic about the Nobel prize-winning Russian physicist Lev Landau in 2006, has assumed near-mythic status as one...
Dau, the long-gestating and controversial series of feature films and visual art projects and live installations by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, is gearing up to launch in the neighbouring Theatre du Chatelet and Theatre de la Ville theatres in Paris on January 24. The event will run non-stop, for 24 hours a day, until February 17.
The project, originally conceived as a $3m arthouse film biopic about the Nobel prize-winning Russian physicist Lev Landau in 2006, has assumed near-mythic status as one...
- 1/10/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Dau
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky // Writers: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin
Long touted as one of the most ambitious Russian films ever made (but perhaps one of the most ambitious film projects in the history of cinema itself) is Dau from director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Over 700 hours of footage, a shoot that eclipsed six years amidst the director’s construction of a town that worked and operated as if it were a real place existing within a 1950’s timeframe, several published interviews and reports with those who experience set visits have come away describing something that sounds like pure madness. The extended shoot ended in a grand baccnalian bonfire three years ago, and in late 2013 it was announced that the film was locked in post-production in London labs, where a crew of people were struggling to piece it together into something rumored to be around two hours in length. Khrzhanovsky, who...
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky // Writers: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin
Long touted as one of the most ambitious Russian films ever made (but perhaps one of the most ambitious film projects in the history of cinema itself) is Dau from director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Over 700 hours of footage, a shoot that eclipsed six years amidst the director’s construction of a town that worked and operated as if it were a real place existing within a 1950’s timeframe, several published interviews and reports with those who experience set visits have come away describing something that sounds like pure madness. The extended shoot ended in a grand baccnalian bonfire three years ago, and in late 2013 it was announced that the film was locked in post-production in London labs, where a crew of people were struggling to piece it together into something rumored to be around two hours in length. Khrzhanovsky, who...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Dau
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Writers: Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin, Kora Landau-Drobantseva
Producers: Coproduction Office’s Philippe Bober, Artyom Vasilev
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Teodor Currentzis, Youriy Alekseev, Radmila Schiogoleva
Patiently, we are still awaiting to hear if this might be the lucky year for Dau to make a bow. We had the film pegged for last year’s Most Anticipated list (#5) and fair to say, if the trend disturbingly continues, we won’t hear a peep out of it for the next twelve months ahead which will only confirm that production is completely off the tracks a la Synecdoche, New York. Winner at Rotterdam in 2005 for his debut film 4, Khrzhanovsky’s artistic ambition is unmatched by any I’ve seen in a very long time (I include Cuarón’s 7-years-in-the-making Gravity) — this on-going production (used three cinematographers, four editors) took a life of its own has had thousands of extras,...
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Writers: Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin, Kora Landau-Drobantseva
Producers: Coproduction Office’s Philippe Bober, Artyom Vasilev
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Teodor Currentzis, Youriy Alekseev, Radmila Schiogoleva
Patiently, we are still awaiting to hear if this might be the lucky year for Dau to make a bow. We had the film pegged for last year’s Most Anticipated list (#5) and fair to say, if the trend disturbingly continues, we won’t hear a peep out of it for the next twelve months ahead which will only confirm that production is completely off the tracks a la Synecdoche, New York. Winner at Rotterdam in 2005 for his debut film 4, Khrzhanovsky’s artistic ambition is unmatched by any I’ve seen in a very long time (I include Cuarón’s 7-years-in-the-making Gravity) — this on-going production (used three cinematographers, four editors) took a life of its own has had thousands of extras,...
- 3/7/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
- A figure on the international film circuit but relatively still unknown outside of Europe, Kornél Mundruczó the helmer behind Johanna, Pleasant Days and most recently, the 2008 film Delta (a slow-paced, heavily dependent on natural surroundings pic that reminded me of Terrence Malick's work) is currently in production with, The Frankenstein Plan. The filmmaker choose Mary Shelley's classic and came up with a contemporary narrative - so I'm really not expecting something like what Universal will plan to do with the character sometime in the next decade ahead. 19 year-old-kid Rudolf Frecska takes on the role of the monster - we can see by the pic that the common link are the bandages and what we can tell by the brief synopsis provided by the director that liek the monster, this teen is seeking affection from close ones. This is about a who returns home from a boarding school,
- 8/28/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes Film Festival, In Competition
Unreal characters and story shackle this gloomy tale of unconventional love between a long-lost brother and sister, who create their own version of paradise on a remote Hungarian island in "Delta". This academic, albeit beautifully shot, exercise will appeal mainly to those who like their Greek tragedy served with no frills or explanations and a bare minimum of dialogue.
The Delta depicted so atmospherically here is a wild maze of waterways and isolated towns populated by wizened-faced villagers straight out of "Deliverance". They don't much cotton to the arrival of the handsome newcomer (Felix Lajko), a Mystery Man of few words, who has been away so long he didn't even know he had a younger sister (Orsi Toth.) She flees her rapist stepfather to live on her brother's island, where together they build a house on stilts in the middle of the river. The incest issue is not of great concern for them, but for the villagers it is unforgivable. The air of foreboding that hangs over the young lovers explodes in the final scenes, leaving audiences more perplexed than satisfied.
Cast: Felix Lajko, Orsi Toth, Lili Monori, Sandor Gaspar.
Director: Kornel Mundruczo
Screenwriters: Yvette Biro, Kornel Mundruczo
Producers: Viktoria Petranyi, Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober
Director of photography: Matyas Erdely
Production designer: Marton Agh
Costume designer: Janos Brecki
Music: Gabor Balazs
Editor: David Jancso
Sales Agent: Coproduction Office, Paris
92 minutes.
Unreal characters and story shackle this gloomy tale of unconventional love between a long-lost brother and sister, who create their own version of paradise on a remote Hungarian island in "Delta". This academic, albeit beautifully shot, exercise will appeal mainly to those who like their Greek tragedy served with no frills or explanations and a bare minimum of dialogue.
The Delta depicted so atmospherically here is a wild maze of waterways and isolated towns populated by wizened-faced villagers straight out of "Deliverance". They don't much cotton to the arrival of the handsome newcomer (Felix Lajko), a Mystery Man of few words, who has been away so long he didn't even know he had a younger sister (Orsi Toth.) She flees her rapist stepfather to live on her brother's island, where together they build a house on stilts in the middle of the river. The incest issue is not of great concern for them, but for the villagers it is unforgivable. The air of foreboding that hangs over the young lovers explodes in the final scenes, leaving audiences more perplexed than satisfied.
Cast: Felix Lajko, Orsi Toth, Lili Monori, Sandor Gaspar.
Director: Kornel Mundruczo
Screenwriters: Yvette Biro, Kornel Mundruczo
Producers: Viktoria Petranyi, Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober
Director of photography: Matyas Erdely
Production designer: Marton Agh
Costume designer: Janos Brecki
Music: Gabor Balazs
Editor: David Jancso
Sales Agent: Coproduction Office, Paris
92 minutes.
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