Giraffe
2020VOTE NOW
| MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): August 6, 2020 |
Starring:
Christoph Bach, Hans Christian Bentsen, Jakub Gierszal, Janne Ellehammer, Janusz Chojnacki, Juliane Elting, Juni Dahr, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Maren Eggert, Natalia Ciepiel
Summary:
An ethnologist in her late 30s arrives on an island in the south of Denmark to study its inhabitants and record their traditions. Their homes are set to be demolished to build a tunnel linking to Germany. Unexpectedly, she meets an attractive younger man, a laborer who’s been hired from Poland.
Aug 7, 2020
The Film Stage
Dec 14, 2020
The film’s vibes are melancholy and Scandi-modern, cozy and bougie, here are lovely interludes of fallow fields in white-nights summer twilight, and scenes filmed over FaceTime or as video messages nicely evoke the textures of this interconnected, transient century. The becalmed mood and associative dramaturgy at times recalls Angela Shanelec, though Hartmann is not quite as rigorous.
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The Guardian
Aug 7, 2020
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