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Search Results for: the burden

The Burden, Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2017

Niki Lindroth von Bahr on The Burden and tap dancing mice

…Burden is available to stream on The Criterion Channel and Hoopla in Canada and the US. You can rent or purchase the film on Vimeo here. Scene from The Burden…

Seventh Row best films of the decade

Seventh Row Editors / November 25, 2019

Seventh Row’s 50 favourite films of the decade

…may have brought her back to life, but it also killed her.” …READ MORE Read our essay on The Deep Blue Sea 12. The Burden (2017, dir. Niki Lindroth von…

TIFF best of 2019

Seventh Row Editors / October 1, 2019

The best 20 films of TIFF 2019

…is one of the best films at TIFF19 Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s The Burden, an unforgettable Swedish short in which stop-motion animals sing (in autotune) about existential despair, is one…

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2022

Ten must-see shorts at TIFF 2022

…stop-motion animated musical The Burden (2017), in which animal puppets sing about existential crises. It was so far and above the other shorts that year that it was the only…

Amnesia

Alex Heeney / October 23, 2015

Barbet Schroeder’s Amnesia reckons with Germany’s holocaust guilt

…from someone who was once so used to living in black and white. Perhaps forcing Jo to carry some of the burden is the only way for Martha to unburden…

Matthias Schoenaerts

Alex Heeney / May 19, 2016

Matthias Schoenaerts and the art of not speaking

…out with quiet confidence, by the end he’s twitchy and worried, uncomfortable and anxiety-ridden. The buff, stolid Paul ends up a young man with the burden of the world on…

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