Orbis Pictus (1997)
Orbis Pictus (1997)
DVDRip | MKV | 698 x 518 | x264 @ 1740 Kbps | 101 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Slovak AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 698 x 518 | x264 @ 1740 Kbps | 101 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Slovak AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
A teenage girl goes on a magical journey of selfdiscovery through a surrealistic forest after she is kicked out of school. Tereza crosses the beautiful Slovak countryside en route to the city where her mother lives. During her journey, she has many strange adventures and meets assorted weird characters, including a sad young man who is about to marry a woman old enough to be his mother, an old woman who is buried up to her waist and a man whose job is to destroy as many things as possible.
I went into the film not knowing much about it at all, and by the end I was quite exhilarated. Sulik and his writers give us story-telling at its very finest. The film plays like a fairy-tale, and like most fairy tales worth their salt, there's a layer of evil lurking below the innocent surface.
I have to disagree with the other user comment thus far (JM Laprise), not about the quality of the film, but more so its nature: this is certainly no feel-good film. Quite the contrary, I found it depressing. The concept of mixing reality with fantasy, and not vice versa, is rather ingenious, and it's executed very well here. I heartily recommend the film.IMDB Reviewer
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Orbis Pictus (1997)
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