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July 27, 2005
Appreciating 3 Rooms of Melancholia
The NY Times' Stephen Holden is on top of his game, reviewing a great doc: "The acrid fog of war is palpable in Pirjo Honkasalo's magnificent documentary, The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, one of the saddest films ever made. The movie, which opens today in New York, is evidence that when a director-cinematographer with a poet's vision photographs the material world, ordinary human faces and landscapes can leave impressions that transcend any words that might describe them... Although tears are shed in The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, the film mostly lets its images speak for themselves. More affecting than any displays of emotion is the prevailing attitude of stoicism and endurance in the face of suffering. The film is a requiem for the living as well as for the dead."
Posted by at July 27, 2005 05:37 PM
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