Liverpool
Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
2008
84 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish
Synopsis
During an Atlantic crossing, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he is sailing on for permission to go ashore at the next port of call: he wants to visit the place where he was born to find out if his mother is still alive. Farrel has been a seaman for 20 years. He has always drunk himself blind and paid for the women he slept with. He never made a friend. When he reaches the snowbound town where he lived his early childhood years, he discovers that his mother is still alive but also that there’s another member to the family. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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Lisandro Alonso
Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Lisandro Alonso studied at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) and co-directed in 1995 with Catriel Vildosola his first short film Dos en la Vereda (1995). After working as assistant sound engineer in many short films and a few features and as assistant director of Nicolas Sarquis for his film Sobre la Tierra, Lisandro Alonso returned to directing, making his first feature. In 2003 he founded 4L, a production company based in Buenos Aires, to produce his own films. Lisandro Alonso’s first feature La Libertad (2001) was chosen for the Festival de Cannes (Un Certain Regard). His most recent productions, Los Muertos (2004) and Fantasma (2006), were also invited to Cannes, premiering in the Director’s Fortnight. —The Match Factory
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Dizzydent
6Jul12
Beautiful articulated images tell the story through accumulation, not narration. Movement becomes the only available fulfillment and memory itself becomes the effort at remembering. This will be a guaranteed turn-off for most viewers. For those who seek unique cinema, it offers stark and lofty pleasures. Alonso proves that, like his hero, he knows the road he means to take and he determinedly follows it all the way.
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13Feb12
I remember seeing this for the first time at AFI Fest, and a group teenagers sat in front of me. I thought, they'll probably leave after the first few minutes, but they actually ended up staying through the majority of the film, only leaving when Farrel leaves. Alonso know exactly what the fuck he's doing. And what a wonderful little DVD package Second Run put together for this film.
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By David Hudson on November 29, 2010
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By Daniel Kasman on September 5, 2009
It is difficult for me to qualify what it is about Liverpool I find so overwhelming, one of the great films of our times. Some time ago
Now in Theaters: "Liverpool" (Alonso, Argentina)
By Daniel Kasman on September 5, 2009
It is difficult for me to qualify what it is about Liverpool I find so overwhelming, one of the great films of our times. Some time ago
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By David Hudson on August 31, 2009
"Like his debut feature, Los Muertos (2004), Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool (2008) is a work of rugged solitude
TIFF REVIEW: LIVERPOOL
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
“And you want to keep moving / and you want to stay still / but lost in the moment some longing gets filled…”—Joni Mitchell, “Barangrill” They say the cleanest line of nature is the horizon and whether
TIFF REVIEW: LIVERPOOL
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
“And you want to keep moving / and you want to stay still / but lost in the moment some longing gets filled…”—Joni Mitchell, “Barangrill” They say the cleanest line of nature is the horizon and whether
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