tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post4749821289637510020..comments2023-11-05T12:59:29.404+02:00Comments on Csíkszereda musings: Katalin Varga (film review)Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11294221123964774524noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-25762711471791544332011-02-28T21:35:59.478+02:002011-02-28T21:35:59.478+02:00I had the extraordinary pleasure of watching this ...I had the extraordinary pleasure of watching this movie back under the 2009 Copenhagen Film Festival where it won the main prize. I have to concur with Caroline, what's amazing about this film is how it is able to hold the suspense with such limited outward action. It is a terrifying story set in gorgeous landscape and not all of it is Covasna -- the introductory scene is in the castle ruin in Stolzenburg (Slimnic), my daughter's favourite castle in Transylvania.<br /><br />I will never forget that particular evening in Copenhagen. It was a saturday night, last night of the festival, and Peter Strickland showed up for the screening; it was the last film I ever watched in that fantastic little arts cinema Posthusteatret (they had a wonderfully cosy bar, fantastic films and the worst possible cinema seats ever seen).<br /><br />Peter Strickland had to dash off after the screening to attend the closing event of the festival. A few hours later it was announced that he had won the grand prize ... 50,000 EUR might just about have recovered his outlays for the film.<br /><br />If he ever does another movie, I will surely watch it.Hans Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029759504992115595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-72733188040160485322010-10-08T19:28:54.480+03:002010-10-08T19:28:54.480+03:00This was on at the Cluj/Kolozsvar film festival an...This was on at the Cluj/Kolozsvar film festival and I totally failed to see it, but it does sound worth a look. I do hope that Mr Strichland's film included shots of the Kommando/Comandau mocăniţa.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-53054219521347486672010-09-30T01:44:34.185+03:002010-09-30T01:44:34.185+03:00When Katalin Varga was premiering in Budapest I re...When Katalin Varga was premiering in Budapest I read somewhere that Peter Strickland had originally planned to film it in Albania.<br /><br />It is quite unusual for an English filmmaker to make a self-funded film in a foreign language (or two foreign languages, as a few sentences seemed to be in Romanian).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-32873290293734202562010-09-25T00:20:21.721+03:002010-09-25T00:20:21.721+03:00I saw Katalin Varga and can't agree with your ...I saw Katalin Varga and can't agree with your description of it as an uneventful film. I thought it was a taut, scary story of a woman in flight -- a woman who is both predator and prey. Parts of the movie felt like a hallucination, and the end is very violent and bleak ind indeed. Readers, be warned. This film does have some long shots, but it is no snoozer.Carolinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-55783474993388743372010-09-24T20:52:08.573+03:002010-09-24T20:52:08.573+03:00Hi,
This is a movie I want to see...
Thanks for th...Hi,<br />This is a movie I want to see...<br />Thanks for the review,<br />Camy<br /><br />P.S. It's normal you don't see the beauty of those places anymore...the novelty is out. But I do hope you enjoy your living there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com