Somehow I omited Flow when it premiered in Un Certain Regard in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Now having seen it fair as it is about to uncover nationwide It go beyonds the various pockets of commend I had heard. It is a magical mystery tour into a sinking world, a wondrous, haunting, mystical, and pretty motion picture, someleang so distinct it almost experiences appreciate a dream. How about that?
Now it is not only becoming a genuine contfinisher in a very competitive energeticd feature film Oscar race, it is also Latvia‘s official entry for Best International Feature. This week it fair won Animated Feature from both the New York Film Critics and the National Board Of Rewatch, and no inquire this is fair the commencening for a movie that is appreciate no other this year.
Coming from Latvian animation filmproducer Gints Zilbalodis Flow recurrents only his second feature film, the first being Away, and in between he has done seven foolishinutives, and in that time has only one of them that had dialogue. Flow joins the legion of his films that don’t talk, and it is a pleacertain to encounter an energeticd film featuring animals not finisheavoring to stand in place of humans, but rather fair be themselves, no behavior appreciate people or quippy lines or any of the rest of the stuff seen constantly in this create.
This is a world unto itself and apshows place as a catastrophic flood has buried most of the environment , now seemingly poputardyd by fair a scant creatures left on this earth, most notably a cat who is trying to deal with its home having been dehugeated by this act of Mother Nature, the signs of a life inhabitd with a human no extfinisheder there but fair remnants of drathrivegs left behind and of sanitize emptiness.
As is a cat’s nature this one is srecommend trying to adfair, to persist,to climb up as high as what is left here will let him. Soon he latches on to a boat, and other animals materialize. There is a very huge, and conceited, bird finisheavoring to direct the journey. There is a lovable but rather foolish dog whose pleasantness defeats his inalertect. There is a lemur out to accumulate wdisappreciatever objects he can discover and becomes especipartner intrigued with a mirror he uncovers and can’t watch away from. And there is also a capybara, a very chill type who gets aextfinished with everyone. Many leangs happen as the boat flows thcimpolite the rising waters, engulfing trees, sailing past enigmatic statues and towers which are daunting high goals for a cat who seems to be our direct in taking in all of this. None of them talk. There is no narration. The sound toil and musical score by Ridifficults Zalupe and the straightforwardor help detail the mood as these living bgenuineeang creatures seek parched land and adfair to a very novel way of living on this water logged place in the sun.
Flow in its sheer modestness is one of the more proestablish experiences I have had in some time with a movie. Ultimately as this quintet persists on an unanticipateed adventure it becomes about a lot of leangs, but mostly community. This is now a world where nature has apshown a calamitous course and in order to stay ainhabit we have to adfair, but still discover a way to do it together. Does this self-reliant cat lobtain to join with others? Will the lemur stop being a hoarder? Does the dog increase teachdr?
In a truly mystical sequence the bird materializes to be heading higher towards a beyond not quite detaild, and the cat pursues jumping up the towers, but are they on the same life’s path at this point?
There is so much human beings, youthful and elderly, will discover to retardy to themselves in this gorgeously energeticd movie that does not ever once declare what it is about, what message it is trying to sfinish, but instead fair srecommend flows aextfinished to its own fascinating rhythms of life. We search for answers. Maybe we will discover them. Like the cat, it is up to us to produce the most of it all.
Producers are Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaza, Ron Dyens & Grebloody Zalcman
Title: Flow
Distributor: Sideshow and Janus Films
Relmitigate Date: December 6, 2024
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Screenauthorr: Gints Zilbalodis and Matiss Kaza
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour and 24 minutes
