Italian Review - “The urgent need to ‘bite’ the problem”
The film is currently playing in London, Rome and soon Vienna. We’ve seen a few Italian reviews and wanted to share them. The Urgent need to ‘Bite’ the Problem honors Google Translate who brings you the following English “rendition” of Dodes’ka-Den’s writeup.
The question before the spontaneous vision of this film is: “Why two deans of contemporary American cinema like Robert Redford and Terrence Malick have decided to produce this young and almost unknown documentary. After the first few minutes of vision of the fim have the answer. Laura Dunn is probably the new frontier of American documentary, sweeter but equally resolute Michael Moore, more willing to formal research and the desire of beauty compared to his colleagues generation “bowling for Colubine” Laura Dunn research and develops a sense of the act human vision of raising the issue at a level substantially philosophical and biological. While generating Moore denounces the urgent need to “bite” the problem and trigger reactions, Laura Dunn analyzes the fact the microscope or perhaps it would be better to say from a distance as great if everything were to see a large satellite circulating over problems environment and development.
Laura Dunn reconstruct the biological history of the earth and water of an aquifer close to Austin (Texas), a place martroriato building and contumacy the abuse of power. Tell the victories of environmentalists and politicians rerpubblicani sold, the tragedies of farmers but also those of manufacturers through splendid visual metaphors. A doctor describes the development of cancer in humans and Laura contrasts this lesson in human biology images of the earth devoured by his cancer: Enterprise Development building of men. Tell as environmentalists have lost a great battle for merit of a powerful lawyer in the pay of Republicans, the fact is telling the same lawyer while filming construct a model plane from war. Laura Dunn gives the public a document harrowing sweet and full of rich cultural contradictions that define the society in which we live and show at the same time the cause of our evil. A rare and valuable film and probably bring out the Academy Award all’arrabbiato “Son” by Michael Moore.
Time Out Film Guide on The Unforeseen
The film is playing in the London Film Festival at the moment. This writeup appeared in the Time Out Film Guide. It’s a nice, short and sweet writeup… (Pantheist crack notwithstanding!)
Expanding with an organic sweep, Dunn’s debut eco-doc turns the battle to save a beloved Austin, Texas, swimming hole from ambitious urban developers into an engrossing microcosmic metaphor – first global, then spiritual – for a world eating itself alive in its hunger for growth. Lensed with a lyrical beauty that nods squarely to exec producer Terrence Malick, Dunn’s musings arrive via startling visual symmetries, refocusing gracefully between great (God’s-eye photography, motion graphics) and small (talking heads, glittering underwater footage). Even if the director eventually hard-pedals her pantheist imagery into cliché, this inconvenient truth is discreet, intimate and regularly surprising. Author: Jonathan Crocker
Viennale (Vienna, Austria)
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Viennale (Vienna, Austria)
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Viennale!
October 29, 9pm, Metro
October 30, 11am, Kunstlerhaus Kino
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AFI Film Festival - Los Angeles
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AFI Film Festival - Los Angeles
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Wimberley, Texas screening
Corral Theater, dusk.
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Wimberley, Texas screening
Corral Theater, dusk.
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Hill Country screening under the stars….
WIMBERLEY TO PREVIEW NEW FILM BY AUSTIN DIRECTOR LAURA DUNN
The Corral Theatre in Wimberley, Texas, is having a sneak preview of award-winning Austin director
Laura Dunn’s new film, “The Unforeseen,” on October 27 and 28
Sponsoring the film is the Wimberley Valley Watershed Association. Tickets for the Saturday
screening, which features Dunn in a Q&A session, are $20. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Hays
County Community Action Network. Tickets for the Sunday show are $5. The theater opens at 6:30
p.m., and the film starts at 7:30 p.m. Movie goers may need to bring a sweater and lawn chair for this
special screening.
The open-air Corral Theatre, built in 1948, is the only outdoor movie theater in the U.S. that features first-run films. Movies always start at dusk. For more info, click here.
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About The Unforeseen
The Unforeseen, executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Called "the best film at the festival, hands down" by Film Comment's Gavin Smith, the film documents the struggles between development and preservation of Austin Texas.