

Solar Beats
2008-10-10 · 18 min · ★ 8.4
Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.
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- Patrick Bokanowski
- Production companies
- Kira B.M. Films, ARTE
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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Gaëlle Rouard
Michèle Bokanowski#2
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