De l'autre côté

De l’autre côté (English: From the Other Side) is a 2002 independent documentary art film directed by Chantal Akerman.

Reception

Chantal Akerman in 2012

The film, which premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was released on DVD in 2016 as part of a boxset also containing D'Est (1993), Sud (1999), and Down There (2006),[1] looks at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Edited by Claire Atherton, distributed by Shellac [fr] and First Run Features, financed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications's Yle TV2-Yle, Special Broadcasting Service, RTBF, and Arte-Arte France Cinéma [fr], and featuring music by Claudio Monteverdi and Frédéric Chopin performed by Natalia Shakhovskaya, it was included (as the fourth place) in the 2002 Cahiers du cinéma annual top ten list, and was also shown at the 2002 Terra di Siena Film Festival [it], at the 2002 Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (where it was nominated for the Joseph Plateau Award), at the 2002 and 2011 Vienna International Film Festival, at the 2003 International Film Festival Rotterdam, at the 2003 Wisconsin Film Festival, and at the French Institute Alliance Française in 2015.

References

  1. ^ Akerman, Chantal Anne (March 2016). Chantal Akerman: Four Films (DVD) (in French and Spanish). New York: Icarus Films. OCLC 1037269053. Retrieved 6 February 2019. Includes Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Place and Displacement: Akerman and Documentary." Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  2. ^ MacDonald, Scott (January 2005). A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews With Independent Filmmakers. Oakland, Los Angeles, and Berkeley, California and London: University of California Press. pp. 258–273. ISBN 9780520242715. OCLC 56876181.
  3. ^ "De l'autre côté" [From the Other Side]. Time Out. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  4. ^ Schwartz, Dennis (20 April 2012). "Thought-Provoking Documentary on Illegal Immigrants". Ozu's World Movie Reviews. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  5. ^ Kehr, David (20 February 2003). "Inching Toward America, So Near But So Far". The New York Times. p. E00001. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  6. ^ Charlesworth, Amy (August 2017). "On Absence and Saturation in Chantal Akerman's De l'autre côté (From the Other Side)" (PDF). Oxford Art Journal. 40 (2): 287–303. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcx026.
  7. ^ Ramos, Iván A. (May 2017). "Slow Encounters: Chantal Akerman's From The Other Side, Queer Form, and the Mexican Migrant". ASAP/Journal. 2 (2): 423–448. doi:10.1353/asa.2017.0029.
  8. ^ Chan, Dr. Suzanna. Sexual Difference as Hospitality: Chantal Akerman's De l'autre côté/From the Other Side. Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 9–11 April 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  9. ^ Zaniello, Thomas A. (February 2017). The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films About the New Economic Order. Ithaca, New York: ILR Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 9781501711343. OCLC 928876423.
  10. ^ Vermeersch, Laure; Zaoui, Pierre; Zilberfarb, Sacha (April 2007). "Là-bas ou ailleurs: Entretien avec Chantal Akerman" [There or Elsewhere: Interview With Chantal Akerman]. Vacarme (in French). No. 39. pp. 4–10. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  11. ^ Hoberman, James Lewis (15 April 2016). "Losing Ground Meditates on Art as It Examines a Marriage in Peril". The New York Times. p. AR15. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  12. ^ Youmans, Gregory Martin (Spring–Summer 2009). "Ghosted Documentary: Chantal Akerman's Là-bas". Millennium Film Journal (50): 71–80. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  13. ^ Rapord, Nicolas (6 October 2015). "Over There: Chantal Akerman Presents From the Other Side at FIAF". Film Comment. Retrieved 7 February 2019.