FILM
Patience (After Sebald)
12A- Grant Gee
- In English
- 90 mins
Showing as part of Play It Again, New British Cinema Quarterly
A richly textured film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn. The much-anticipated new feature by the Grierson Award-winning director of Joy Division, Patience is the first film about Sebald internationally, marking ten years since the writer’s untimely death, and featuring contributions from major writers, artists and filmmakers.
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Country: UK
Year: 2010
Last shown
Last shown at Cornerhouse on Mon 9th Apr 2012
REVIEWS
As exhilaratingly original as The Arbor
Sight & Sound
You won't find W.G Sebald's classic walking tome The Rings Of Saturn in the travel section. Describing his meanderings around East Anglia in the ’90s, the German author muses far and wide over politics, history, literature, the Holocaust. Grant Gee’s [documentary] is a suitably arty attempt to convey some of the book’s rich patchwork of allusions and digressions. As Jonathan Pryce reads passages and academic voices take turns to chew over Sebald’s visionary opus, [black and white] footage of country roadsides and wind-blasted coastlines turns rural Suffolk into something truly otherworldly. 4/5
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