Viennale 2022: WALDEN by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Viennale 2022: WALDEN by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Twenty-three-year-old Judith Wanga grew up in London but was born thousands of miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sent away by her parents to live in Britain as a small child, she's now returning to Congo - two decades later - to meet them for the first time. 　　She wants to understand the childhood she missed and the country she was forced to leave. After reuniting with her parents in the capital, Kinshasa, Jude heads east to an area of the country that's been devastated by war. 　　It is the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, where rape has become a weapon of war. Jude meets survivors - women and children - as well as perpetrators, and finds out what's driving this brutality - the precious minerals that make our mobile phones and laptops work.

Twenty-three-year-old Judith Wanga grew up in London but was born thousands of miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sent away by her parents to live in Britain as a small child, she's now returning to Congo - two decades later - to meet them for the first time. 　　She wants to understand the childhood she missed and the country she was forced to leave. After reuniting with her parents in the capital, Kinshasa, Jude heads east to an area of the country that's been devastated by war. 　　It is the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, where rape has become a weapon of war. Jude meets survivors - women and children - as well as perpetrators, and finds out what's driving this brutality - the precious minerals that make our mobile phones and laptops work.

在非洲 东非大裂谷的北端，有一块地球上独一无二的地方：那就是埃塞俄比(Ethiopia)的达纳基尔(Danakil)沙漠。或许那里是已知的最不适宜人类居住的地方了，火山和地震的轮番袭击，喷出火山岩浆和有害气体，持续撕裂着地表。这是被证实承认的地球上最热的地方，任何人都能在这居住的想法有够荒唐？！但是还真有人在这生活着，已经居住了千年。一个传说中的勇猛游牧部落 叫做阿法尔(Afar)的部落！一支科学家团队进行这段难以置信的旅程，希望能够发现人在这种极端环境下的生存之道，他们的生活，甚至是他们的生理，是如何被周围的环境塑造的？我们想探索这块神奇土地的地表之下是什么？想要解开她的秘密。

在非洲 东非大裂谷的北端，有一块地球上独一无二的地方：那就是埃塞俄比(Ethiopia)的达纳基尔(Danakil)沙漠。或许那里是已知的最不适宜人类居住的地方了，火山和地震的轮番袭击，喷出火山岩浆和有害气体，持续撕裂着地表。这是被证实承认的地球上最热的地方，任何人都能在这居住的想法有够荒唐？！但是还真有人在这生活着，已经居住了千年。一个传说中的勇猛游牧部落 叫做阿法尔(Afar)的部落！一支科学家团队进行这段难以置信的旅程，希望能够发现人在这种极端环境下的生存之道，他们的生活，甚至是他们的生理，是如何被周围的环境塑造的？我们想探索这块神奇土地的地表之下是什么？想要解开她的秘密。

We need other people to define ourselves. And if these people think we are someone else we feel lost. Harry Kumel uses techniques from Griffith, the sober mise-en-scene from Carl Theodor Dreyer and the themes of Sternberg( whom he dedicates the film to) to tell this story. But he makes of all these different visions a very personal film. It is his first movie and he already shows that cinema is capable of complex feelings. He shoots Belgian landscapes of pure beauty and frenzied walks through the forest and he lets all these images emphasize the isolation of the heroine. The only real weakness of this movie is that the people who call the disguised woman 'monsieur Hawarden', had to be given a guide-dog for their blindness. But if you throw away Hollywoodstandards for 100 minutes and prepare yourself for some art from the Netherlands and Belgium, then you will not be disappointed.

阿里斯塔雷恩90年代的电影代表作. 《世界上的某个地方》无疑是具有传奇色彩的一部阿根廷影片, 不仅因为它的影片质量和艺术性上乘, 而且因为它独一无二的传奇经历. 1992年, 阿根廷电影协会本来把此片作为参赛影片角逐当年的奥斯卡最佳外语片奖, 但后来考虑到影片题材敏感等问题临时改变决定由另一部作品取代。导演一气之下决定去他妻子的国家乌拉圭作为乌拉圭的官方参赛作品，因为他妻子的国籍是乌拉圭而且参与了小部分影片的编剧。后来这部完全由阿根廷国籍的导演，演员和主创人员拍摄，却代表乌拉圭参赛的影片真的入围了最后的角逐，而可笑的那部临时更换的阿根廷参赛作品却落选了。这让奥斯卡最佳外语片评委会感到很难办，影片确实优秀，但如果把奖颁给它就违反了一部影片只能代表大多数主创人员国籍的国家参赛的规定等于默许了这类事件，所以最后评委会还是以种种理由把奖给了另一部影片，虽然实际上这部影片才是其中最好的一部。导演一气之下，决定永远不在美国发行本片，而从此奥斯卡组委会也因此修改了规则使外语片的上报过程更透明和严格化。而本片也成为奥斯卡历史上唯一的一部曾代表两个不同国家的官方作品角逐最佳外语片的电影.

阿里斯塔雷恩90年代的电影代表作. 《世界上的某个地方》无疑是具有传奇色彩的一部阿根廷影片, 不仅因为它的影片质量和艺术性上乘, 而且因为它独一无二的传奇经历. 1992年, 阿根廷电影协会本来把此片作为参赛影片角逐当年的奥斯卡最佳外语片奖, 但后来考虑到影片题材敏感等问题临时改变决定由另一部作品取代。导演一气之下决定去他妻子的国家乌拉圭作为乌拉圭的官方参赛作品，因为他妻子的国籍是乌拉圭而且参与了小部分影片的编剧。后来这部完全由阿根廷国籍的导演，演员和主创人员拍摄，却代表乌拉圭参赛的影片真的入围了最后的角逐，而可笑的那部临时更换的阿根廷参赛作品却落选了。这让奥斯卡最佳外语片评委会感到很难办，影片确实优秀，但如果把奖颁给它就违反了一部影片只能代表大多数主创人员国籍的国家参赛的规定等于默许了这类事件，所以最后评委会还是以种种理由把奖给了另一部影片，虽然实际上这部影片才是其中最好的一部。导演一气之下，决定永远不在美国发行本片，而从此奥斯卡组委会也因此修改了规则使外语片的上报过程更透明和严格化。而本片也成为奥斯卡历史上唯一的一部曾代表两个不同国家的官方作品角逐最佳外语片的电影.

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