Fausto (2018 film)

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Fausto
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Film poster
Directed by Andrea Bussmann
Written byAndrea Bussmann
Produced byAndrea Bussmann
Nicolás Pereda
StarringVictor Pueyo
Fernando Renjifo
Ziad Chakaroun
Alberto Núñez
Gabino Rodríguez
CinematographyAndrea Bussmann
Edited byAndrea Bussmann
Release date
  • August 9, 2018 (2018-08-09)(Locarno)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesSpanish
Arabic
English
French

Fausto is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Andrea Bussmann and released in 2018. [1] Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by exploring the community's mythologies and folklore. [2]

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The film was shot on video, and then transferred to 16mm film. [3]

The film premiered at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, [4] where it received an honourable mention from the Filmmakers of the Present competition jury. [5] It had its Canadian premiere in the Wavelengths program at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. [6]

Critical response

Peter Goldberg of Slant gave the film a three-star rating, writing that "Fausto abounds with piecemeal stories from locals and fantastic characters that evoke the writings of Borges and Bruno Schulz. These fragments of narration resist the devilish drive to see everything, to encompass everything with understanding. The partial and the limited are championed over the continuous and completed—a short circuit in the desire to continue the story to infinity. [2] For Now , Kevin Ritchie rated the film three N's, writing that "Bussmann’s camera frequently lingers on swaths of black night and shadow as if more interested in negative space than conventional action. The storytellers aren’t always as captivating as the filmmaker’s eye, but this version of Faust is also at the nexus of a lot self-relfection and questioning happening more broadly in cinema right now." [7]

Awards

The film won the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2018. [8] It was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's award for Best Canadian Film, and Bussmann was shortlisted for Best Director of a Canadian Film, at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018. [9]

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References

  1. Guy Lodge, "Locarno in Los Angeles Film Review: ‘Fausto’". Variety , June 15, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Peter Goldberg, "Review: In Andrea Bussmann’s Fausto, Seeing Is a Matter of Supreme Knowing". Slant, April 3, 2019.
  3. Chris Knight, "Deliciously disorienting: Fausto is a trip". National Post , April 5, 2019.
  4. Guy Lodge, "Let Locarno come to you". The Guardian , August 6, 2018.
  5. Martin Blaney, "Locarno's top prize goes to Singapore's 'A Land Imagined'. Screen Daily , August 11, 2018.
  6. Barry Hertz, "Some familiar festival names rule TIFF's 2018 Canadian lineup". The Globe and Mail , August 2, 2018.
  7. Kevin Ritchie, "TIFF review: Fausto". Now , September 6, 2018.
  8. Greg David, "2018 Directors Guild of Canada Awards winners announced". TV, eh?, October 21, 2018.
  9. Etan Vlessing, "'The Favourite' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter , December 14, 2018.