This Week In Trailers: Son Of Saul, The Lure, Mad Tiger, Take Me To The River, Los Punks: We Are All We Have
By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 6, 2016 1:00 pm EST
An Academy Award winning production to be sure.
While director László Nemes deserves all the credit deserving for a movie that is brutal yet speaks to something innate in our collective humanity, big ups for the magic hands that cut this piece together. One of the ways this version diverges from the version that everyone else has seen so far is that while we do get the melodic sounds of a violin this trailer pounds you into submission by focusing on sound. Sounds that are around this character, this place, this time. It is light on dialogue but that’s of no need here. Everything you need to know about this man and his struggle is communicated in the chaos in which he finds himself. It is truly devastating but, with a movie like this, that’s exactly what you want someone to know about as it pertains to its content.
Mad Tiger Trailer
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This is something that everyone should see, a documentary about a performance art punk band that’s been raging for 15 years with one of them wanting out. What directors Michael Haertlein and Jonathan Yi have done is carefully constructed a trailer that puts some definition around this bizarre creation that’s called Peelander-Z. I’m not entirely sure what it’s about but, hot damn, if all that jumping around and infectious personality of Peelander Yellow isn’t a perfect reason why this shouldn’t be on everyone’s watch list. Emotional highs and lows with a sheen of weirdness coating everything, it just looks fun.
Take Me To The River Trailer
Simplicity.
That old yarn that art should make you feel something could not apply more than it does here. What first time feature length director Matt Sobel has done here is thrust you immediately into the nexus of this story and starts there. You are not given a build up, there is no buffer, it is about as thrilling an intro as you could make if you wanted to immediately have an audience react. The material is so delicate and the performances here border on the bizarre but there’s some real value in this mix of familial drama and a mysterious second half where I honestly don’t know which way is up with these people. I’m riveted, glued, to see what is going to happen and I’m crushed when this ends without answers.
The Lure (sorta NSFW) Trailer
Stick with me here.
First, it’s in Polish. Second, it played at this year’s Sundance. This, though, is what it’s about:
Director Agnieszka Smoczynska has given this world a gift with a movie that is all over the map in the best possible way. The trailer takes you on a fantastic journey that seems to go to places where very few films dare to tread. Whether it’s the synth music underlying it all or the preoccupation of practically everyone in the cast for sexy time there is very little stable ground to stand on here. That’s for the best, though, as this is unlike anything you’ll see all week.
Two Mermaids – Silver and Gold – find themselves in the middle of the world of Warsaw dance parties of the ’80s, vibrant with music, glittering with neon lights and sparkling sequins. They join the musicians of the Figs and Dates band and overnight become the sensation of the capital’s nightlife. Immersed in love and budding passions they forget their true nature for a while. But one single broken heart is enough for the situation to slip out of control…
Los Punks: We Are All We Have Trailer
Get in the pit.
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In case you missed them, here are the other trailers we covered at /Film this week:
