Completed - RUSSIAN, JAPANESE, GERMAN - Crime, Comedy, Science-fiction - 80 minutes
It is no accident that the artist imprisoned in an abandoned Siberian power plant in The Distance is reminiscent of Joseph Beuys. This is a film that is equally Dadaist and unpredictable, like the German’s performance art, combining shamanism with a love of learning. Sergio Caballero bravely enters the domain of the absurd, making an even more bizarre narrative than in his debut film, Finisterrae. Three telepathic dwarves are given a task by the prisoner: to steal the object of the title, whatever that happens to be. Along the way, the protagonists meet a mutant guard and a smoking barrel that reads out haiku in Japanese and is in love with a chimney. The director turns the conventions of a heist movie on their head, which he achieves to comic effect through the use of dragged-out scenes and surprising editing. Not in a hurry to get anywhere, the film evokes the spirit of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. The main point is to have a laugh, but not only, as in the shadow of the impressive Russian landscape there is hidden a surprising melancholy.
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Sergio CABALLERO Writer(s) : Sergio CABALLERO Cast : Michal LAGOSZ, Alberto MARTÍNEZ, Jinson AÑAZCO, Roland OLBETER, Vidi VIDAL
Country(ies) : SPAIN
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