What do we know about the old man (Roger Marten)? He’s bound to the land, somehow a part of it, in a way that the younger generation cannot understand. Even Laura (Emily Beecham), who describes herself as having farming in her blood, who assumed that she would be his heir until she grew old enough to realise that she was a woman and what that meant, cannot embody it the way he does; her troubled brother David (Rory Kinnear) even less so. So they watch, and we watch, and we never hear the old man speak directly. He expresses himself through the land, its arduous cultivation, its slow giving up of treasure.
There is little by way of direct conversation in Nicholas Parish’s slowly yielding film. Viewers, too, must be patient and wait for their rewards – but like the old man, we are sometimes caught be surprise, confronted with sudden.
There is little by way of direct conversation in Nicholas Parish’s slowly yielding film. Viewers, too, must be patient and wait for their rewards – but like the old man, we are sometimes caught be surprise, confronted with sudden.
- 3/5/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The film is a UK production, with Rory Kinnear and Emily Beecham in the voice cast.
Nicholas Parish’s UK feature The Old Man and The Land has been picked up for world sales by UK-based sales agent Reason8.
As announced earlier today, the film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Picks strand at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) in November.
A debut feature for UK filmmaker Parish, The Old Man and The Land centres on an old man working alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, as his children prove to be at once remote and controlling.
Nicholas Parish’s UK feature The Old Man and The Land has been picked up for world sales by UK-based sales agent Reason8.
As announced earlier today, the film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Picks strand at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) in November.
A debut feature for UK filmmaker Parish, The Old Man and The Land centres on an old man working alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, as his children prove to be at once remote and controlling.
- 10/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Papamichael is known for working as a cinematographer on films including ‘Sideways’ and ‘Nebraska’.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) has selected 15 films for the second year of its Critics’ Picks competitive section, including the world premiere of Light Falls from acclaimed cinematographer Phedon Papamichael.
Greek filmmaker Papamichael’s film is a thriller about a young couple vacationing on a Greek island, who suffer an accident when exploring an abandoned hotel.
Scroll down for the full list of Poff Critics’ Picks
The film is a Georgian-Albanian-Greek-German co-production, with dialogue in English, Albanian, Georgian and Greek. It is Papamichael’s first...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) has selected 15 films for the second year of its Critics’ Picks competitive section, including the world premiere of Light Falls from acclaimed cinematographer Phedon Papamichael.
Greek filmmaker Papamichael’s film is a thriller about a young couple vacationing on a Greek island, who suffer an accident when exploring an abandoned hotel.
Scroll down for the full list of Poff Critics’ Picks
The film is a Georgian-Albanian-Greek-German co-production, with dialogue in English, Albanian, Georgian and Greek. It is Papamichael’s first...
- 10/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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