Dharma Guns
Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov)
France, Portugal
2010
93 Min
Color, Black and White
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
Emerging from a coma after a water ski accident in which his girlfriend Délie was killed, Stan van der Decken is informed that he is the heir of the mysterious Professor Starkov. He then embarks on a trip to the village of Las Estrellas, where he is welcomed by Jon, a presumed childhood friend, and by Doctor Lisandro Ewers. There he finds out that Professor Starkov, who might turn out to be Délie’s father, had performed a scientific procedure called Genetic Double and starts wondering if he and his girlfriend could have served as guinea pigs for this brilliant scientist. An odyssey of atonement where intuition and telepathy accelerate the journey in time: a journey to the other side. –São Paulo International Film Festival
Director
François-Jacques Ossang
Born in 1956, F.J. Ossang is a writer and filmmaker. He has written and directed four shorts and three features, including L’affaire des divisions morituri (1984), Le trésor des îles chiennes (1991) and Docteur Chance (1998). He is now preparing a fourth feature, La succession Starkov. He is also a singer with the MKB Fraction Provisoire group, which has produced nine albums since 1981, as well as the soundtracks of his previous films. He has published a dozen books, including Génération néant (1993), Les 59 jours (1999), W.S. Burroughs (2007). –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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Feu_follet
26Aug11
The visual and aesthetic beauty can't save this movie from its poor script and structure. The viewer is totally exluded from the experience and can only admire the technical skills, hoping to see an end (or some sense) as soon as possible. The overdose of confusion (and worse: a complete lack of explanation or clue to understand what we're seeing) and random stuff fail to equal its visual accomplishment.
Corriel
12May11
One of the most boring film I've EVER seen! A pity because efforts seem to have been maid to give it a visual impact, and the story is quite original. But it's extremely confusing – in the end it just looks "cheap", nearly as if the scenes where put in order randomly and no attention had been maid to the story whatsoever. It's completely at the opposite of Godard's well made and intriguing Alphaville, for example.
Kristen Livera
9May11
Nearly raven from the start with this fly fishing eye and hook without bait, the whippersnapper silver gelatin crystallizing beauty. But the commodity of silver can’t sell for itself alone in film or it simply becomes antique value, which the entire film felt, out of time, borrowed constantly and didn’t work with the aspect of time, with moving image- which is a shame since it pondered on this aspect thematically.
Kristen Livera
9May11
Felt like a rich student film So many aspects were left greatly overlooked while focus was paid solely on the imagery. The billiards scene, where they’re discussing Arthur Strike, I kept thinking how I often confuse ‘strike’ as both positive and negative--baseball your strike ‘out’ but in bowling, strike’s the kingpin. Well this film does both.
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