Jude884
Joined Dec 2011
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This film is absolutely beautiful, saturated with textures, angles, and variety of subject matter. Your eye truly travels through the rich landscape, interrupted by the views of almost unbearable brutality that wars of conquest always bring.
I really enjoyed the ease the characters show in front of the camera, and there is something very optimistic, very positive in the way heir love for creativity comes through.
Recommend to anyone interested in contemporary documentary cinema. This is how it should be done. Inspiring visually, it also gives a great technical performance and deeply humane message of resilience and resistance. There is more to life than simply survival, to live meaningfully, in freedom, is the message.
I really enjoyed the ease the characters show in front of the camera, and there is something very optimistic, very positive in the way heir love for creativity comes through.
Recommend to anyone interested in contemporary documentary cinema. This is how it should be done. Inspiring visually, it also gives a great technical performance and deeply humane message of resilience and resistance. There is more to life than simply survival, to live meaningfully, in freedom, is the message.
Watching this in a war-time Kharkiv, Ukraine, hoping there won't be any air raids, I had a real good time. Babylon has a feel of a good old comfortable story you can dive in and forget yourself for a moment. And I really appreciate this, since in the past months only really good films could create this veil of comfort and distraction for me.
It also remind of the multiple memoirs of Hollywood stars of the 1920s, the earnest and direct look at the viewer from the other side of the screen is quite visual. And what is particularly interesting, side-stories, some that we never get to fully see, still captivate and are good enough for us to feel that these stories matter.
It also remind of the multiple memoirs of Hollywood stars of the 1920s, the earnest and direct look at the viewer from the other side of the screen is quite visual. And what is particularly interesting, side-stories, some that we never get to fully see, still captivate and are good enough for us to feel that these stories matter.
I really enjoyed the camera work, simple and sometimes naive plot matched the overall mood of the wartime Ukraine, be it today or the WW2. The beauty of this film is in small details, food and cutlery, children games and objects of the everyday life of then city of Stanislaviv. Its wintery and beautiful, with the unavoidable sense of tragedy. Children play a big part in the film, and it is through children that we can see and experience many aspects of the complex co-habitation of Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish population on the territory of the multilayered Ukrainian West. Soviet and German occupation is portrayed as a series of hardships that each of the national group experience differently, yet, knowing one another, can't help but compare.
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