“I wished to point out how conflict adjustments a rustic, a society,” the 59-year-old veteran of the Cannes Movie Pageant advised AFP.
“Struggle is at all times absurd. It’s madness by definition alone. Psychological sickness,” he stated.
The movie, which isn’t a part of the competitors program, examines how the invasion seeps into on a regular basis life.
In a shopping center, two troopers discuss how a lot they earn, similar to two colleagues over a espresso machine in an workplace.
A pair is standing in line to get married on the city corridor: the bride is sporting a white costume, the groom is sporting a camouflage army uniform.
S. Loznica began making the movie, made up of a sequence of sketches that wished to convey a “image of life” within the war-torn nation, from the very first days of the invasion in February 2022 out of a way of responsibility, though he wished to keep away from propaganda.
In 2022, Mr. Loznica was expelled from the Ukrainian Movie Academy for criticizing its boycott of all Russian movies in response to the invasion; he nonetheless defends this place.
He lives overseas and needed to ship a small movie crew to the nation.
In a single scene, the digicam captures stacks of books by Russian literary greats Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy as they roll down a conveyor towards a shredder.
“It is a very painful scene for me,” stated the Ukrainian filmmaker with Belarusian roots, who has properties in Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands.
“I do know that retailer, I do know these books, I had them on my nightstand as a child,” he stated.
Cannes veteran
S. Loznica has been making function movies and documentaries for the reason that Nineteen Nineties, when he modified utilized arithmetic to movie course.
He was the primary Ukrainian director to stroll the crimson carpet at Cannes along with his debut movie My Happiness (My Pleasure) was proven in the primary competitors program in 2010.
Two years later, his second function movie “The Fog” (Within the Fog), and in 2017 – “Meek” (A Light Creature).
In 2014, he confirmed the documentary “Maidan” in Cannes (Maidan) about Kyiv’s pro-European revolution.
Loznica says that when filming “The Invasion” he instructed his small crew of a cinematographer, a digicam assistant and a sound operator to easily observe and document.
The result’s a movie with none interviews, voiceover or music.
“I do not wish to intrude with my materials. I do not need to spoil it, he defined. – Sure […] the viewer turns into a part of the tragedy.”
The director has additionally created the 2021 documentary “Mr. Landsberg. Destroy the Evil Empire”, which received the primary prize on the Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant in Amsterdam (IDFA). This movie was additionally nominated for the celebrated European Movie Awards in 2022.
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2024-05-17 22:42:51