Síla
Directed by:
Martin MarečekScreenplay:
Martin MarečekCinematography:
Jiří MálekComposer:
Jan BurianCast:
Kamil FilaPlots(1)
The desire to achieve the greatest physical strength and moments of complete lack of mental strength define the life of film critic Kamil Fila during the filming of this atypical time-lapse documentary. The necessary moment of observation is broken in a longer period of time by the protagonist’s attempts to bring his life into harmony with the people closest to him, which, nevertheless, regularly lead to failure. The result is a portrait of an intellectual at his wits’ end, a man who struggles with the limits of rationalisation. It is precisely the openness with which Fila lets us peer into the depths of his private life that has a therapeutic effect not only for him but also for the viewer. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
(more)Reviews (1)
I don't know about you, but I did not find this tired movie a good documentary. We practically only find out things about the psychological make-up of the protagonist solely via people who explain things in an instructional way, as if they have just been artificially guided by director to summarize Kamil's current thought processes because all he does is shrug his shoulders and say, "I don't know". Everybody has problems, and almost everybody is a hypocrite, so I am not quite sure why it is necessary to make a documentary about this particular person, even if the project's original intention was different at first. [Ji.hlava 2021]
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