White on White

Released Dec 10, 2021

1h 40m

Drama

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95%

21 Reviews

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60%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent and hostile territory, to immortalize the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated with the bride-to-be's beauty, he betrays the rules and is left to face a land crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of its indigenous inhabitants.

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Here's a film that makes you do the work. The exceptional composition, barren landscape, and perspective of the photographers viewpoint make for an exciting buildup. One that addresses genocide and colonization from the lens of an artist, also forced to assimilate. Rather than scold the viewer, this film invites us into a snap shot of brutality, sexism, and violence of the 19 century. With the discomfort, we observe the objectification of a child ( bride to be), and experience these captives nightmarish plight through the selkman women with no voice, Mr Porters female servant, the photographers character evolution, and the selkman guide's painful role. A film that invites us to ask the question, what has changed, and how we can make film to further question our privilege viewpoint? I cant wait to see this masterful first time directors second feature.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Theo Court

Director

Pilar López de Ayala

Aurora

Alfredo Castro

Pedro

Lars Rudolph

Land Owner

David Pantaleón

Arturo

Lola Rubio

Aurora

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

This is a very strong film; very powerful.

Dec 24, 2021

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Carlos Aguilar

Los Angeles Times

In "White on White," what permeates is a merited sense of dread, by design too starkly impenetrable on emotional grounds, but direct in its fierce thematic intent.

Dec 10, 2021

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Guy Lodge

Variety

The rare film that actively interrogates its own considerable visual beauty, inviting the viewer to consider what is being aestheticized and why.

Dec 7, 2021

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Rosa Parra

Latinx Lens

Not an easy watch. But history isn't always pretty. It has a memorable and uncomfortable ending.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 25, 2022

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Theo Court's second feature (and first since 2010) may strike some as too slow, formal and mannered, but its vision of "civilization" at bloody work is chillingly distinctive.

Dec 17, 2021

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Amyana Bartley

QBP Reviews

The message gets quietly branded on your soul. It may not affect those with privilege as much, but for women and people of color, it's a reminder of the history of violence we descend from and the tightrope we still walk where "male and white is right".

Dec 16, 2021

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Synopsis

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent and hostile territory, to immortalize the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated with the bride-to-be's beauty, he betrays the rules and is left to face a land crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of its indigenous inhabitants.

Director: Theo Court
Screenwriter: Theo Court, Samuel Martín Delgado
Distributor: Outsider Pictures
Production Co: El Viaje Films, Pomme Hurlante Films, Don Quijote Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 10, 2021, Limited
Runtime: 1h 40m

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