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Sundance Film Festival · 2007

Sundance Film Festival 2007

New Frontier

The New Frontier section offers seven films which are experimental and pushing the boundaries of filmmaking.

Programme

7 films · 4 reviews

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Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe

A presentation of short films that have rarely been screened outside of a museum or art gallery context. Huyghe is one of France's most celebrated young artists. His multimedia installations-which are concerned with collective memory, the construction of narratives, and textures of re-enactment-have been exhibited at museums across the world including the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, and the Whitney Museums.

(Year: 2007; Director: Pierre Huyghe; Writer: Pierre Huyghe)

The Last Dining Table (Majimak Babsang)

Review preview for The Last Dining Table

By comprimising his film to bring the characters together, and yet failing to inject the irony or imagery of a director such as Jodowrosky, this falls short.

Trinity · 2.5 out of 5
Seeking fulfillment on the fringes of Seoul.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2006; Director: Roh Gyeong-tae; Writer: Roh Gyeong-tae; Stars: Baek Hyun-joo, Kim Do-yeon, Oh Heoung-ki, Hong Suk-yeon, Hwang Bok-soon)

Full review

North American Premiere

Offscreen

Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro - a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his self-monitoring is so hair-raisingly private (and creepy!) that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Knud Romer Jørgensen; Stars: Nicolas Bro, Lene Maria Christensen, Karen Margrethe Bjerre, Christoffer Boe, Jakob Cedergren, Bjarke de Koning, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Hillingsø, Joen Højerslev, Mathilde Norholt, Signe Skov)

World Premiere

Phantom Love

Review preview for Phantom Love

Among the welter of films I am watching in the course of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, it is the images from Phantom Love that continually haunt me.

Chris · 5 out of 5
An alienated woman undertakes a strange spiritual journey.

(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Nina Menkes; Writer: Nina Menkes; Stars: Marina Choif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi) , Official site

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World Premiere

Slipstream

A man discovers that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams and reality collide in an increasingly whirling Slipstream.

(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Anthony Hopkins; Writer: Anthony Hopkins; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lana Antonova, Stella Arroyave, Gene Borkan, Michael Clarke Duncan)

See: Sundance Film Festival 2006: Day 5

World Premiere

Strange Culture

Review preview for Strange Culture

In the mindscape of Alice Through The Looking Glass, the surrealism of Steve’s predicament would be a footnote to The Patriot Act: Fear Or Frenzy?, if it wasn’t so tragic.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
The artist as victim of The Patriot Act.

(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Writer: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz, Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie Powell, Jakob Bokulich, Larissa Clayton, Beatriz da Costa, Dr Susan Leeson)

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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Zidane, un Portrait du 21e Siècle)

Review preview for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

By isolating the footballer from the general run of play, an ordinary league match becomes a study of one man's craft.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
Study of Zinedine Zidane during a Real Madrid match against Villarreal.

(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno; Stars: Zinedine Zidane)

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US Premiere