If there are any Academy voters in Helsinki, they had the opportunity last week to see “Citizenfour” as well as a selection of top docs off the international circuit at DocPoint, the all-documentary festival held each year in warmly welcoming yet climatologically inhospitable Helsinki. "Home Somewhere" (dir. Lotta Petronella) Formally precise, emotionally profound, “Home, Somewhere” gives a poetic voice to people who have never traditionally had one – men who work on the Nordic sea, and perhaps as a consequence maintain a combative relationship with both God and the Earth. The subjects of the London-educated director Lotta Petronella’s film have a tenuous grasp on the meaning of life, but only because they’ve had the time and inclination to regard it, from a vantage point at the end of the world. “Anything can be dramatic,” says one, with a dismissive shrug at his own significance. “But one human life is not.
- 2/2/2015
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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