The Journey to Kafiristan

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Audience Member "But we have to come back, Ella. We have to be useful." Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member il trailer mi ha ingannata ._. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member improbabile oltre ogni dire. le due stelle vanno per i paesaggi e gli ambienti Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautiful cinematography. Sure. The landscape is a character in itself. Our heroines are attractive and smart. They are pee aich dees don't you know...not just any garden-variety queer. Yet as a story, JOURNEY is a lovely pointless exercise of poetic self-indulgence. There's plenty of atmosphere. This caper takes place at a time when rich, excessively educated Europeans with bohemian values and the existential angst of those neither driven by hunger nor fear of the gas chamber flee from reality into the arms of opium, vague wandering and a half-hearted chase after shangri-la. I enjoy plenty of slow-moving plotless minimalist opera so that is not my complaint here. Had the role of researcher Ella Maillar provided a starker contrast to addict-writer Annemarie Schwartzenbach this would have been a more interesting film. Instead, we are treated to several hours of posturing by one character, from which we are to understand that she suffers greatly, mysteriously. Man or woman, queer or straight--do they not all suffer mysteriously? It is surely an affliction unique to that particular ilk. In character-driven narrative, the goal is to reveal the humanity of those involved through personal growth or devolution. Those who remain static are unmasked by the differences between them and other people. As this film fails at any kind of character development, it seems to me that the filmmakers are simply besotted with the 'mystique' of the Schwartzenbach character (which eludes me frankly) but either don't have the material to invest in a straightforward plot-driven narrative or are just too damn uppity to consider such a low-brow approach. The JOURNEY TO KAFIRISTAN is a trip fueled with way too much poutiness for this (currently non-) working jane...who's long past the age when this sort of thing is romantic. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member a film about crossing the boundaries 'inside' (not necessarily and not only sexual, as is suggested in the Movie Info); about loving 'love's impotence - an impotence like love'. isnt this the endless human journey? Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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