Belgian writer-director Caroline Strubbe is less interested in narrative architecture than she is in collecting behavioral detail. Her debut feature, 2009's Lost Persons Area (which takes its title from Elliott Erwitt's 1963 photograph), devotes entire scenes —many of them captured in tender, caress-like close-ups — to minute physical gestures: Bettina (the bouncy and vibrant Lisbeth Gruwez) gently putting lipstick on her daughter, Tessa (Kimke Desart); Tessa feeling her father's (Sam Louwyck) scratchy beard; Bettina trimming Szabolcs's (Zoltán Miklós Hajdu) stringy hair.
The family at the center of Lost Persons Area lives on a remote plot of land that has more dirt than it does grass. Pylons tower over their small residence, and a team of...
The family at the center of Lost Persons Area lives on a remote plot of land that has more dirt than it does grass. Pylons tower over their small residence, and a team of...
- 7/2/2014
- Village Voice
Exclusive: New Europe Film Sales signs second feature by Belgian filmmaker Caroline Strubbe.
In a deal struck on Sunday (Jan 26) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), Polish sales agents New Europe Film Sales has swooped to take on international sales for I’m The Same, I’m An Other, the second feature by Belgian auteur Caroline Strubbe.
The film, which premiered at Toronto in September, is produced by Tomas Leyers of Minds Meet.
It is the story of a man and a girl fleeing through Europe, played by Zoltán Miklós Hajdu and Kimke Desart. The reason for thieir journey gradually becomes clear, as they slowly learn to tolerate one another.
I’m The Same, I Am An Other, screening in Iffr’s EU-2014 sidebar, is a sequel to Strubbe’s highly praised debut feature Lost Persons’ Area, which premiered in Critics’ Week in Cannes in 2009.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales’ Jan Naszewski confirmed details of the...
In a deal struck on Sunday (Jan 26) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), Polish sales agents New Europe Film Sales has swooped to take on international sales for I’m The Same, I’m An Other, the second feature by Belgian auteur Caroline Strubbe.
The film, which premiered at Toronto in September, is produced by Tomas Leyers of Minds Meet.
It is the story of a man and a girl fleeing through Europe, played by Zoltán Miklós Hajdu and Kimke Desart. The reason for thieir journey gradually becomes clear, as they slowly learn to tolerate one another.
I’m The Same, I Am An Other, screening in Iffr’s EU-2014 sidebar, is a sequel to Strubbe’s highly praised debut feature Lost Persons’ Area, which premiered in Critics’ Week in Cannes in 2009.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales’ Jan Naszewski confirmed details of the...
- 1/27/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Journey to the West Side: The Heartbreaking Work of Sensitive Genius
Lost Persons Area premiered at Cannes as the first in an unfinished trilogy from Flemish director Caroline Strubbe, but follow-up feature I’m the same I’m an other has the strength to stand on its own. The preceding film clarifies the somewhat frustratingly unexplained relationship between thirty-year old Szabolcs (Zoltán Miklós Hajdu) and nine-year old Tess (Kimke Desart). Nevertheless, this perfectly distilled portrait of an unexpected bond will deeply mark anyone willing to surrender expectations to guiding intuition. Hovering somewhere between cinema and hypnotic visual poetry, I’m the same I’m an other is scored by dissonant electronic humming and patterned with lasting images of sorrow, sea and sky.
Opening the detail-sensitive wandering, a boxy baby-blue car and hollow-eyed passengers in like-colored jackets are arranged against an industrial skyline. With controlled composition giving an impression of artistic authority,...
Lost Persons Area premiered at Cannes as the first in an unfinished trilogy from Flemish director Caroline Strubbe, but follow-up feature I’m the same I’m an other has the strength to stand on its own. The preceding film clarifies the somewhat frustratingly unexplained relationship between thirty-year old Szabolcs (Zoltán Miklós Hajdu) and nine-year old Tess (Kimke Desart). Nevertheless, this perfectly distilled portrait of an unexpected bond will deeply mark anyone willing to surrender expectations to guiding intuition. Hovering somewhere between cinema and hypnotic visual poetry, I’m the same I’m an other is scored by dissonant electronic humming and patterned with lasting images of sorrow, sea and sky.
Opening the detail-sensitive wandering, a boxy baby-blue car and hollow-eyed passengers in like-colored jackets are arranged against an industrial skyline. With controlled composition giving an impression of artistic authority,...
- 9/24/2013
- by Caitlin Coder
- IONCINEMA.com
Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth Tiff is in our rear-view mirror, the Ioncinema.com team are comparing notes, grading films and looking back at our personal experiences, our rapport with the films we saw and the characters that vividly remain with us. Among our favorite fest recaps, our discerning fivesome (Eric Lavallee, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell, Leora Heilbronn, Caitlin Coder) have created a Top 20 List of New Faces from the 2013 of up-and-coming actors and actresses (of all age demos) that stole some thunder in lead or supporting player roles. Here they are:
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
- 9/19/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
I’m the same I’m an other – Caroline Strubbe
Section: Wavelengths
Dates: Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Friday 13th
Buzz: Belgium might be best known for their brewing hops skills, but with the likes of Felix van Groeningen, Bouli Lanners, Joachim Lafosse and Michaël R. Roskam, we could say that national cinema belongs to more than the Dardennes and Chantal Akermans. While she is only one film into her filmmaking career with the Cannes preemed Lost Persons Area (2009), with her sophomore pic Caroline Strubbe might be padding this nouveau Belgian film front. Utilizing the exact same players as in her debut film with Zoltán Miklós Hajdu being now joined by the teen actress Kimke Desart, I think we might be in for some aesthetically drab looking, tonally heavy turf with this road trip number.
The Gist: A man in his thirties is on the run with a young girl. As...
Section: Wavelengths
Dates: Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Friday 13th
Buzz: Belgium might be best known for their brewing hops skills, but with the likes of Felix van Groeningen, Bouli Lanners, Joachim Lafosse and Michaël R. Roskam, we could say that national cinema belongs to more than the Dardennes and Chantal Akermans. While she is only one film into her filmmaking career with the Cannes preemed Lost Persons Area (2009), with her sophomore pic Caroline Strubbe might be padding this nouveau Belgian film front. Utilizing the exact same players as in her debut film with Zoltán Miklós Hajdu being now joined by the teen actress Kimke Desart, I think we might be in for some aesthetically drab looking, tonally heavy turf with this road trip number.
The Gist: A man in his thirties is on the run with a young girl. As...
- 9/3/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival has released an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Year: 2009
Directors: Caroline Strubbe
Writers: Caroline Strubbe
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
It’s not often you come across a movie that’s freaky, creepy and depressing all at the same time. Welcome to Lost Person’s Area (Lpa), a sort of psychic dead zone of seekers, escapers, narcissists and one very zany little kid.
The basic characters and a trailer of Lpa have been posted here on Qe, but I’ll sort of repeat it: Tessa, a nine-year-old girl, wanders through the movie, looking for bits and pieces of anything to aid her semi-autistic, artistic attempts to have her parents notice her. Marcus, Tessa's father, is a man searching to find happiness in an unconventional way of living. The day-to-day way. He’s a grasshopper and never plans ahead. Bettina, Marcus' wife, is a self-centered sensualist who runs the worker’s kitchen and...
Directors: Caroline Strubbe
Writers: Caroline Strubbe
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
It’s not often you come across a movie that’s freaky, creepy and depressing all at the same time. Welcome to Lost Person’s Area (Lpa), a sort of psychic dead zone of seekers, escapers, narcissists and one very zany little kid.
The basic characters and a trailer of Lpa have been posted here on Qe, but I’ll sort of repeat it: Tessa, a nine-year-old girl, wanders through the movie, looking for bits and pieces of anything to aid her semi-autistic, artistic attempts to have her parents notice her. Marcus, Tessa's father, is a man searching to find happiness in an unconventional way of living. The day-to-day way. He’s a grasshopper and never plans ahead. Bettina, Marcus' wife, is a self-centered sensualist who runs the worker’s kitchen and...
- 1/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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