Monday, March 26, 2012

NaNa


An industrious 4 year old child lives in rural France in this pastoral and meditative film. Enigmatic, ponderous, and hardly idyllic; I found it to be quite disturbing. We see many gritty moments of farm life; cows amble through fields, piglets tumble in hay, people gather firewood. Animal activists should avoid, and this film is definitely not for small children. NaNa is well photographed but I couldn't say I enjoyed it. I watched NaNa at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Here's a clip, but don't be fooled by this brief moment of levity. It's the only one I could find:


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