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Tomáš LuňákPhotographie:
Jan Baset StřítežskýActeurs·trices:
Miroslav Krobot, Marie Ludvíková, Karel Roden, Leoš Noha, Alois Švehlík, Tereza Ramba, Ján Sedal, Miloslav Maršálek, Jiří Štrébl, Marek Daniel (plus)VOD (1)
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1989. Aloïs Nebel est chef de gare dans une petite station tchèque, non loin de la frontière polonaise. Il vit seul, mais quand le brouillard se lève, il croit voir les fantômes de son passé. L’irruption d’un étranger l’obligera à affronter ses cauchemars. L'irruption d'un étranger bouleverse sa vie. Réfugié dans la gare centrale de Prague, il croise celle qui lui donnera l'amour dont il a besoin pour sortir du brouillard de ses souvenirs. (ARP Sélection)
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Je pensais que la forme l’emporterait sur le fond, mais l’histoire est tellement solide qu'après le visionnage, j’ai dû aller chercher des informations sur la bande dessinée originale en ligne pour être certain d’avoir bien compris. Le personnage d'Alois Nebel semble avoir été créé spécialement pour Miroslav Krobot. Et dans les seconds rôles, Leoš Noha, Alois Švehlík et Ondřej Malý se distinguent par leur hystérie et/ou leur méchanceté. Chapeau pour la puissance de la forme, qui répond aux attentes ; la rotoscopie semble exiger beaucoup d'efforts, mais en fin de compte, elle s'avère très efficace et esthétique !
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A foggy film in every way. Whilst in terms of atmosphere and rendering of the environment of the "normalization shift", this fog is of benefit, but in terms of storytelling and characterization of the characters, there is more of it than is necessary. There's no clearer motivation, no continuity; in fact, the story is missing. It's clear to me that Jaromir 99's advertised "the fog fucks the forest" is fun when drinking a bottle of beer from the mountains, but you can't make 87 minutes of film out of it. Moreover, something is done wrong in the rotoscoping of the faces of the actors, because they look different all the time - sometimes the comic-book look suits them, sometimes they look like ugly painted faces on cardboard. I feel a certain sympathy for Alois Nebel because it tries to be a different Czech film (silent, allusive, based on the feeling from a place), but I can hardly forgive the film for not offering much besides effort.
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I could argue that the very unresolved relationships between the characters, and thus the incoherent tangles of their motivations, are the director’s intent, but I doubt that Negativ would pump $80 million crowns into a technically courageous animated film whose target audience can only be found in art house movie theaters.
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Over the past decade of Czech cinema - or rather its entire post-November existence - I have taken a diplomatically reserved attitude because only a small number of films fall within the average, let alone exceed it in any way. Therefore, even Alois Nebel was not enticing to me, even though it was nominated for an Oscar because the responses to this film were conflicting. However, in the end, it tempted me to go to the movie theater, something I do with Czech films only once a year. Honestly, I do not regret it in any way because Nebel was a very pleasant surprise for me - after a long time, a Czech film has appeared that deliberately builds an atmosphere, has polished form, is not excessive, and affects the viewer, as cinema should, primarily through the image on the movie screen. It would greatly surprise me if it were to win an Oscar, although I believe that in many respects it surpasses famous animated films of the recent past. Waltz with Bashir excels in terms of animation style, and Persepolis excels in terms of visual design. However, Nebel is unfortunate because it takes place on the periphery of world events, and its creative duo does not make its protagonists' motives and actions clear enough to be understood on a global scale, and they are appreciated more by domestic, at most Central European, audiences. Waltz with Bashir dealt with nothing less than war and crimes against humanity, and Persepolis dealt with the globally known religious revolution in Iran. The few percent of the population capable of understanding such themes and who could be considered potential viewers can find their way to those films much easier than to the minimalist, intimate film Alois Nebel. Targeting the community of American academics would mean stretching the story of an entire decade into the past, showing the fates of the heroes of a small train station, the Sudetenland's cession, the expulsion of Czech inhabitants, some partisan sabotage, a Wehrmacht military operation, cattle trains heading to Auschwitz, and later the movement of heavy military equipment on rails during the 1968 occupation, and thus it would need to have a longer, let's say two-hour runtime. The resulting film would certainly be more epic and would contain themes that are understandable even overseas. But even in this version, Alois Nebel is an excellent choice for Czech viewers, even though the authors sometimes take a somewhat looser approach to interpreting recent history. In the autumn of 1989, the Polish border guards were certainly not engaged in frantic pursuit of defectors across the border, and the Polish state security certainly had different concerns and tasks than dealing with saboteurs. The downfall of the Polish regime came somewhat earlier and in a different way than that of the Czechs. Alois Nebel is an intimate yet raw film, where the viewer can often only guess at the dramas playing out behind the bearded faces and shining glances of individual characters. The inaccessible wilderness and dark border forests, flooded rivers and forest giants also play their role. The cast is excellent, with each actor precisely matching the characters' personalities. Overall impression: 95%.
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A grief-laden look back at Czech identity and history in the negatively formative period between 1945 and the early 1990s. It is simultaneously amazing and unfortunately sad that the most thought-provoking reflection on how this era shaped not only individual lives but also the identity and morality of the nation is provided by a unique animated project.
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