Gone to Graveyards: Bureau Mines the Surreal Tragedy of Ongoing Ukrainian Conflict
Ukrainian auteur Sergei Loznitsa has, heretofore, presented the most comprehensive cinematic examinations of the Ukrainian revolution, which grew out of the 2013/2014 Euromaidan protests. His films contend with the continually rippling aftermath from these protests, both in the immediacy of his 2014 documentary Maidan and the masterful narrative feature Donbass (2018). French journalist Loup Bureau joins the conversation with his debut documentary Trenches, which follows a handful of frontline Ukrainian soldiers responsible for the Sisyphean feat of reconstructing the eponymous dugouts as the violent conflict with Russian-backed separatists rages on.…...
Ukrainian auteur Sergei Loznitsa has, heretofore, presented the most comprehensive cinematic examinations of the Ukrainian revolution, which grew out of the 2013/2014 Euromaidan protests. His films contend with the continually rippling aftermath from these protests, both in the immediacy of his 2014 documentary Maidan and the masterful narrative feature Donbass (2018). French journalist Loup Bureau joins the conversation with his debut documentary Trenches, which follows a handful of frontline Ukrainian soldiers responsible for the Sisyphean feat of reconstructing the eponymous dugouts as the violent conflict with Russian-backed separatists rages on.…...
- 9/3/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has boarded Ukraine war documentary “Trenches,” which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition section.
French war journalist Loup Bureau, directing his first documentary, depicts the reality of the war that has been raging in Eastern Europe between Ukraine and Russian-backed forces over several years, a conflict that is no longer reported extensively by mainstream international media.
In Donbas, Ukraine, while precarious ceasefires are being negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers fight against separatists supported by Russia. At an age when most young people in Europe are enjoying some of the best years of their lives, on the frontline men and women are fighting for their lives, condemned to dig, and dig again trenches while bombs fall on them.
Bureau takes us on “an immersive and stunning cinematic journey revealing the naked truth and roughness of survival,” according to a press statement,...
French war journalist Loup Bureau, directing his first documentary, depicts the reality of the war that has been raging in Eastern Europe between Ukraine and Russian-backed forces over several years, a conflict that is no longer reported extensively by mainstream international media.
In Donbas, Ukraine, while precarious ceasefires are being negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers fight against separatists supported by Russia. At an age when most young people in Europe are enjoying some of the best years of their lives, on the frontline men and women are fighting for their lives, condemned to dig, and dig again trenches while bombs fall on them.
Bureau takes us on “an immersive and stunning cinematic journey revealing the naked truth and roughness of survival,” according to a press statement,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The French institution will also lend its support to feature debuts from Marie Remond, Basile Carre-Agostini and Loup Bureau. Four feature debut projects were selected at the 1st 2020 session of the Cnc’s first advance on receipts committee. Standing out among them is L'oiseau rebelle (working title) by Elias Belkeddar, well received for his short films Todo si puede (awarded in 2014 in Clermont-Ferrand) and Un jour de mariage (winner of the Canal+ title in Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2018). Selected with this project (which at the time had a different title) in the 5th promotion of the Next Step programme of the Critics’ Week, the director has written the script of L’oiseau rebelle with Jérôme Pierrat (already his writing partner on Un jour de mariage). The story centres on Omar, a 50-something French gangster wandering the streets of Algiers, in exile, far from France. His daily life is laced...
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