In the Crosswind

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william d @acsdoug 08/18/2021 The film makers could have created a film exploring an event that very few people (myself included) know anything about: the Soviet invasion of the Baltics and the mass murder of its peoples. Instead, they adopt a surreal approach - the camera slowly pans across a series of still images while an actress reads from one woman's letters. This was a wasted opportunity. See more 07/04/2016 Original movie with beautiful images, based on a true story.Very sad and depressing story, but also a story of hope. See more 09/21/2015 Tonight I've witnessed something truly different. Brilliant storytelling! See more 08/21/2015 Based on true events from the WW2, when estonians were transported to the nothingness of Sibir by the russians. It takes a few seconds before you realize that this film is like no other, its unique in it shooting and how sound are being used. Stillscenes with slowmoving camera movement soothing through pictures, extremely detailed. The sound is behind the pictures and moving, and helps create another dimension of the visuality. The story is dark, sad and cold as the Sibir at winter, it is a sunny as a smoothie made of stones and rocks. See more 03/16/2015 Like a low-budget variant of bullet-time technology, the camera meanders through entire landscapes of people, meticulously posed in various states of deportedness. A true feat of patience for the actors, and, as the film wears on, the viewer. The narrative's apparent one-sidedness can almost be forgiven since the stated purpose is to recreate the surviving perspective of one woman's letters. On the other hand, some background information (i.e. what was with that uniform her husband wore at the beginning and what of the military that issued it?) may have made the rest seem so monstrously arbitrary. See more 03/15/2015 First, it is necessary to tell these stories. That over 40.000 people from the three Baltic States were sent to Siberia or simply killed under Stalin in 1941 after the annexation. Very few of them ever returned. The main character in the film, whose letters are the story of the film, spent 15 years in Siberia. That is hard core. And she returned. Second, I have never seen a film where the people are standing still and the camera moves, tableaux vivant it is called. People are frozen and the camera wanders through massive scenes with a lot of people. Only the wind blows and the female voice tells the story. Impressive, kind of takes the edge of the harshness of the film, makes is very slow yet intriguing. Very interesting way of making a film. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/crosswind-film-review-740126 See more Read all reviews

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