{"id":2078,"date":"2018-01-07T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2019-07-21T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:55:41","slug":"western-germany-bulgaria-thu-18-october-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2018\/01\/western-germany-bulgaria-thu-18-october-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"WESTERN [GERMANY, BULGARIA] &#8211; THU 18 OCTOBER, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q01G1lW2MDI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are no cowboys in this supremely confident, simmering drama of German-Bulgarian discord, but the spirit of the Western as a template for frontier conflict prevails.\u00a0 A study of economic imperialism and toxic masculinity made by a woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>One of the films of the year has arrived \u2013 maybe the best of the year \u2013 a work of unmatched subtlety, complexity and artistry.<\/strong><\/em> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/apr\/12\/western-review-pastoral-culture-clash-makes-for-years-best-film\">The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong><strong>\u2605<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intense, slow-burning thriller,\u00a0Western\u00a0follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men\u2019s sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other \u2014 or is the stage being set for a showdown?<\/p>\n<p>Valeska Grisebach follows her 2006 award-winner <em>Longing<\/em> with this contemporary western.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beautifully complicated, rigorously straightforward. There is no doubting Ms. Grisebach\u2019s filmmaking&#8230; as precise as a dropped pin on a GPS map, which makes its sense of mystery all the more powerful.<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0The New York Times Critics Pick<\/p>\n<p><em>A mesmerising study of men on the edge.<\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/0\/western-review-mesmerising-study-men-edge\/\">The Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0<strong>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong><strong>\u2605<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>There are no stagecoaches or six-shooters in this sharp, simmering drama of German-Bulgarian discord, but the spirit of John Ford graces it.<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Variety<\/p>\n<p>Germany, 2017 |Language: German, Bulgarian | 119 minutes | Cert: CLUB<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0\u00a0Valeska Grisebach<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2030\" src=\"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-140x140.png 140w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Cork-Cine-Club-CelebratesWomen-Film-Directors-3.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff There are no cowboys in this supremely confident, simmering drama of German-Bulgarian discord, but the spirit of the Western as a template for frontier conflict prevails.\u00a0 A study of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}