Quebec Film Week:
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Presented by San Francisco Film Society
- When
- Event has passed (Thu Dec 11, 2008 - Sat Dec 13, 2008)
- Cost
- $10 - $12.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Festivals
Description
Stéphane Lafleur, 2007A businessman falls asleep on a city bus, wakes to find it stopped on the highway and walks off into the dark woods. So begins Stéphane Lafleur’s debut feature, a meditation on modern loneliness and loss. The film contemplates various characters, each only tangentially connected to the others, and depicts their aimless attempts at connection. Lafleur imbues the Quebec locations with a suburban homogeneity, framing the protagonists in beautifully composed images that suggest they are as much a part of the landscape as the concrete apartment buildings and hotels where they live. Though the film partakes of a recent movement toward intersecting, multiple narratives, it has a sense of humor unusual to other such fare. Most unexpectedly of all, by its end, Continental manages to leave us with a sense of hope for its tragic characters.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.sffs.org/events/films/film_continental_a_film_wi....
- Call
- 925.866.9559 (Box Office)
Comments