12/11/2022 0 Comments Review findfocus![]() ![]() What is evident in these scenes is Kodagolian‘s technical prowess. As much as Kodagolian maintains that ‘the storytelling became exponentially stronger the more dialogue we cut out’, harnessing a sense of ‘visual grammar’ to achieve pure cinematic expression, there are times when even less dialogue would have sufficed. #Review findfocus series#The primary difference is tonal: the dynamic between the tense triumvirate in Calendar unfolds in a series of barely perceptible emotional shifts, while in Somewhere Beautiful there is histrionic confrontation and emotional signposting. In the Patagonian scenes, there will be a sense of déjà vu for anyone who has seen Calendar entire scenes are reproduced almost verbatim. The big test for Somewhere Beautiful is whether it can transcend Egoyan‘s touchstone text. ![]() ![]() One can admire Kodagolian‘s intent to foster spontaneity and individuality, but using the framework of Calendar immediately casts Somewhere Beautiful in the shadow of Egoyan‘s work. If this sounds like a costly high-wire act, Kodagolian was reacting against the risk-averse, focus-grouped world of advertising where he made his name. ‘Reimagining’ is an unfortunate way for Kodagolian to pitch the film the term conjures images of a committee churning out the latest affront to the legacy of a revered property.Īppropriating such a singular and critically acclaimed work for one’s debut feature is a risky proposition, and Kodagolian utilizes what he learned under the tutelage of maverick director Mike Figgis – the film was made in ‘real time’ without storyboards or a completed script and shot on celluloid. In Somewhere Beautiful, Patagonia replaces Armenia and Toronto becomes Los Angeles as co-writer, cinematographer and director Albert Kodagolian assumes the role played by Egoyan. Somewhere Beautiful bills itself as a ‘reimagining’ of Atom Egoyan‘s 1993 film Calendar a curio in the Canadian director’s canon in which a photographer travels across Armenia with his wife and a local driver, with Egoyan playing a director ‘auditioning’ a series of escorts to find the one who most closely resembles his wife. ![]()
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