[Our thanks to Padrhig Harney for the following review]
With production from Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Mozambique, and Brazil "The Last Flight of Flamingo" brings globalization and film together in an attempt to create a film unlike any other.
Director Joao Ribeiro's first crack at a feature film was a long time coming. In his early career he focused on production of films like "Ali" and "Blood Diamond". From 1992 he directed 3 Shorts "Tatana", "Africa Dreaming", and "Fogata" all based on original stories from the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Of the many films at Piff this year Ribeiro's was most likely the strangest, blending African tradition and folklore into a narrative that in the end could not really add up to much of anything.
The film starts out with a mystery. A Un soldier has been killed and all that is left behind a blue helmet and his phallus. With great fan fair the Un general for the region swoops...
With production from Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Mozambique, and Brazil "The Last Flight of Flamingo" brings globalization and film together in an attempt to create a film unlike any other.
Director Joao Ribeiro's first crack at a feature film was a long time coming. In his early career he focused on production of films like "Ali" and "Blood Diamond". From 1992 he directed 3 Shorts "Tatana", "Africa Dreaming", and "Fogata" all based on original stories from the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Of the many films at Piff this year Ribeiro's was most likely the strangest, blending African tradition and folklore into a narrative that in the end could not really add up to much of anything.
The film starts out with a mystery. A Un soldier has been killed and all that is left behind a blue helmet and his phallus. With great fan fair the Un general for the region swoops...
- 10/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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