7 Fois
7 Fois. Seven times. That’s how often, according to research, an abused child has to ask for help before anyone intervenes. How does it happen that people turn away, or fail to pay attention, so often? Christine Wiederkehr’s intense 16 minute film tells the story of one boy, Elio (Vidal Arzoni), who is persuaded to share his secrets with a young woman (Luna Wedler) whom he meets whilst waiting for his tutor – but will she take him seriously?
The film begins when Elio is at home, chasing a wasp around the kitchen, waiting for his mother to return from her night shift. I asked Christine why she chose to start there and to take her time establishing the characters before the main arc of the story gets going.
“I thought the context is quite important, because abuse is always happening in a power relationship,” she says. “And I thought.
7 Fois. Seven times. That’s how often, according to research, an abused child has to ask for help before anyone intervenes. How does it happen that people turn away, or fail to pay attention, so often? Christine Wiederkehr’s intense 16 minute film tells the story of one boy, Elio (Vidal Arzoni), who is persuaded to share his secrets with a young woman (Luna Wedler) whom he meets whilst waiting for his tutor – but will she take him seriously?
The film begins when Elio is at home, chasing a wasp around the kitchen, waiting for his mother to return from her night shift. I asked Christine why she chose to start there and to take her time establishing the characters before the main arc of the story gets going.
“I thought the context is quite important, because abuse is always happening in a power relationship,” she says. “And I thought.
- 4/10/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Pearl Review Pearl (2018) Film Review from the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Elsa Amiel, starring Julia Föry, Peter Mullan, Vidal Arzoni, Arieh Worthalter, and Agata Buzek. For a movie set in a world that is utterly niche, Pearl manages to tell a story that is universal in its emotions and tensions. The film [...]
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- 5/6/2019
- by Leah Singerman
- Film-Book
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