Liverpool
Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2009
(Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2008, 35mm, 84 min)
Seattle Premiere
Director in Attendance Friday & Saturday
Free screening for members on Monday at 7pm; followed by a discussion with program director Adam Sekuler
One of the New Argentine Cinema’s most distinguished directors, Lisandro Alonso’s singular voice shines yet again in Liverpool. A graceful ode to solitude and the existential need for meaning, the story follows a sailor named Farrel on a lonely journey in the southernmost region of Argentina. After traveling the world, Farrel asks the captain if he can leave the ship to see if his mother still lives in their old village. Alonso’s wide shots of formidable mountain ranges connects Farrel’s gloomy trek through the snow with the dark past that haunts him, creating an engrossing aesthetic that sets the director apart as a master of style and technique.
Northwest Film Forum members, please join us for a free screening of Liverpool on Monday, November 16 at 7pm, followed by a discussion with program director Adam Sekuler
"A work of rugged solitude, executed with a careful simplicity of unhurried, unbroken, and generously distanced shots" -Art Forum
"Formalist yet visceral, monosyllabic yet eloquent, Liverpool ponders the lure and absurdity of nests in a world of unending, faraway ports." -Slant Magazine
“Alonso creates scenes of striking beauty, particularly in the way he uses the sea and then the snowy mountains as backdrops.”
—J. Robert Parks, Daily Plastic
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