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Thursday, Nov 9, 2023
4:30 PM (90 mins)
SOLD OUT
BAMPFA
Signs of Life
(Lebenszeichen)
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In Person
featuringA remarkably assured first feature . . . exhibits all the essentials of Herzog’s mature style. . . . Signs of Life is suffused with a sweetly obsessive melancholia.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg,
Herzog’s breakthrough film garnered a special jury award at the Berlinale and this appraisal at the New York Film Festival: “Deceptively beautiful landscapes and dangerous idylls on a Greek island during the German occupation provide the setting for Herzog’s mysterious parable, in which a modern Don Quixote, apathetic and inhibited, is at last stung into rebellion against society. . . . A strange, intense work . . . influenced by Borges and Kafka. The hypnotic probing of cruelty, indifference, and unspoken horrors becomes a metaphysical comment on man and his ideologies.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Werner Herzog
Cinematographer
- Thomas Mauch
Language
- German
- Greek
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 90 mins
Source
- Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Permission
- Shout! Studios
Event Accessibility
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