ENC: Almost There

Fri. 2 Jun, 2017 at 7:00pm SAST
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Price: R55.00
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Price: R55.00
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ENC: Almost There

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.


Tickets R55


Almost There (2016)


Directed by: Jacqueline Zünd 


80min


 


Almost There  is an existential crisis, made gorgeously cinematic. All right-angle compositions, half-light and fluorescence, Zünd’s camera follows three men as they negotiate the last years of their lives. In the United States, a city slicker wanders solo around the frigid countryside, leaving voice messages for someone who never answers. In Tokyo, a retired salaryman gets used to his now-empty days in the world’s largest city. And in bleak Blackpool, a down-on-her-luck drag queen and comedian decides to leave grey Britain for a solitary life in a sunny Spanish resort. The sum of these three narratives is a poetic triptych that confronts mortality, aging, purpose and loneliness; a piece of cinema assured in its gloominess and texture, deep and affecting as a lush glass of red wine.

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The Bioscope Independent Cinema 286 Fox Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
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