In a forest, near a border, a young Bengali and a European soldier attempt to get the better of one another. In Calcutta, Rahul, an architect who had gone off to build a career in Dubai, begins a huge construction site. He is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming, living alone far from her family. Both set out to find Rahul’s brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in thee trees. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Vimukthi Jayasundara ensaia escolas conhecidas: O naturalismo abstrato de Apichatpong Weerasethakul, o hiper-realismo de Jia Zhang-Ke... Tudo em busca de uma identidade visual, mas consegue apenas niilismo narrativo. Uma pretensão, cujo resultado é grosseiro, negligente, ausente de qualquer significado ou sentido.
We talked to the energetic and charming Sri Lankan auteur at Cannes about his life and his new movie.
After his brilliant Between Two Worlds (2009), Sri Lankan artist Jayasundara goes to Cannes with a Bengali film, featuring Bengali stars Paoli