Curated by Erika Richter Fred Keleman Retro the crocodile, which presented by mid-year every month is running, continue during the Berlinale. On Saturday, 12.2. runs around 20 hours.
For simplicity, the program text:
"" time of the fire of love kindled against the cold and fear. Time between the years when everything seems to stand still and everything is decorated with sacred festivals. Time of darkness.
flee On Christmas night, the seven year old Michael and his young mother, Marianne from the violence of his drunken father. The essentials stowed in a suitcase, she secretly left her apartment in the basement of an apartment building.
Marianne recalls her childhood she spent in the countryside in eastern Germany. There, the place of her childhood, she wants back. There she hopes to help, kindness, to find peace. When they think they have arrived at their destination, she finds a landscape covered by ice. Trees stare out of the frozen motion of waves. On the horizon, the tip of a submerged church tower stands across the winter world. Did the place where her childhood here, now flooded and icy? Or are they deceiving the memory?
on their seven-day odyssey through the icy Germany they meet people, all with no rest, no place of staying, led but from ulterior motives of their own poverty or lost, they wound only deeper, and nothing more are fleeing as new stations. The temporary end of the road Hotel in a foreign city, it comes for a short time after peace that can not last, however.
... every setting in which happened often no more than that the woman goes with her child on dry fields, through the fog or ice on the river floods, infinitely slowly, so long as all the other sequences. A completely unusual rhythm is that one could hardly bear would not be any photo of this film is a revelation of beauty, warmth in the middle of the polar desolation of this life. (Peter W. Jansen, Badische Zeitung, 25.02. 1997)
This is one of the greatest films of the nineties. To date, the film is not its due Had spread. FROST is a movie that is really still to discover. (Erika Gregor, between barricades and ivory tower, 30 years of the International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin 2000)
FROST is an attention to detail elaborated film in which Kelemen's central themes - human cruelty and loneliness - has seen epic spread, where he themselves as to the universal relationship between a mother who flees from her violent husband, and her son concentrated. FROST, with its terrifying emptiness and his sudden violent catharsis one of the milestones of European cinema of the late 90s. (Anthology Film Archives, New York, January 2003). ... ""
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