Stand van de maan (Stand van de maan) (2004)
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A magical work. This perhaps the most authentic and non-clichéd immersion into the third world urbanity I’ve ever seen. Let’s say you wanted to know what it would be like to live in a self-built squatter city. How do the residents make of a life’s arrangements work with so little? What do they dream about? This beautiful film perfectly captures the texture of a slum as home. No romance, no pity—only quirky complexity. You know how when you first visit a foreign place your eye focuses on small details that seem to embody the total essence of the place’s strangeness? This film is like that. It’s all attention, fascina
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johanlefourbe rated this 7/10 7 years, 9 months ago
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