Piaffe

Name: Piaffe
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: August 25, 2023
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Björn Melhus, Don Alonso, Josef Ostendorf, Lea Draeger, Ruth Rosenfeld

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: August 25, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Björn Melhus, Don Alonso, Josef Ostendorf, Lea Draeger, Ruth Rosenfeld, Sebastian Rudolph, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, Simone Bucio, Tristan Bumm

Summary: Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures anIntroverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures an unassuming botanist into an intriguing game of submission. … Expand

Director: Ann Oren

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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IndieWire Sophie Monks Kaufman

Aug 16, 2022

Nothing is phoned in here, everything is calibrated to a unique frequency so that even though you can trace the influence of Bette Gordon, Catherine Breillat, and Lucille Hadzhihalillovic, “Piaffe” is its own playful and majestic beast. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Aug 24, 2023

Its experimental style, marked by long, dialogue-free stretches, color flares and pristine sound effects, can seem calculated and off-putting, the narrative slight and dramatically slack. Yet the film’s provocations have a playfulness and generosity that are enormously appealing. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 17, 2023

It rewards the attention of a committed voyeur, which all proper cineastes and many of our best provocateurs are anyway. The pinched of mind and the humorless need not bother. Invariably more welcome (one imagines Oren thinking) are those who enjoy their senses and perspectives pried open while their heads get a thorough scratching. Read full review

The Film Stage Alistair Ryder

Aug 23, 2023

Piaffe is an enrapturing, ultimately inconsistent work where two halves that challenge in different ways don’t entirely add to an effective whole. Yet the journey itself more than compensates for where it eventually lands. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Aug 24, 2023

It’s a weird movie, to be sure, but never an off-putting one. It’s also one that sometimes feels like a chimera itself, pushing various genres and ideas together without fully synthesizing them. But it’s consistently beautiful, watchable, and a truly memorable debut for Oren. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Aug 23, 2023

This is the kind of movie Piaffe is: one that mostly poises its absurd surreality at the edge of what’s plausible in contemporary everyday life until it moves into unprecedented physical mutations. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Aug 25, 2023

The fact that it purports to function as a not-so-thinly-veiled parable about the limitlessness of sexuality, gender fluidity, and the marginalized makes it that much more unbearable. Read full review

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