Fatih Akin
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That theme gets lost in the beautiful imagery, inspired by the look of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978) and shot by Akin’s frequent cinematographer Rainer Klausmann on 35mm film with wide-angle lenses.
In Akin’s reveal of Dassler’s Honka at the beginning of the film we see him hunched over Quasimodo-like in a pose that knowingly harks back to Peter Lorre’s child killer from Fritz Lang’s M. Akin can wink to that great film all he likes, however, as The Golden Glove offers nothing close to Lang’s haunting examination of his killer’s psyche.
Tangerine (2015)
Directed by Sean Baker
influenced by Head-On (2004), The Edge of Heaven (2007), Soul Kitchen (2009)
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Baker’s combination of acute emotional intelligence and raucous, often bawdy humor sometimes brings to mind Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish descent who also likes to set his films ( Head-On , The Edge of Heaven , Soul Kitchen ) in tough urban areas where conflicting cultural value systems meet and clash.
Baker’s combination of acute emotional intelligence and raucous, often bawdy humor sometimes brings to mind Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish descent who also likes to set his films ( Head-On , The Edge of Heaven , Soul Kitchen ) in tough urban areas where conflicting cultural value systems meet and clash.
Baker’s combination of acute emotional intelligence and raucous, often bawdy humor sometimes brings to mind Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish descent who also likes to set his films ( Head-On , The Edge of Heaven , Soul Kitchen ) in tough urban areas where conflicting cultural value systems meet and clash.
The Cut is in the cinematic tradition of sweeping epics centering on stoic immigrants to the New World who stayed silent about what pushed them out of the old country: the Swedes in Jan Troell’s The Emigrants (1971), the Italians in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II (1974), and the Irish in Ron Howard’s Far and Away (1992).
Also, if you’ve seen The Golden Glove (2019), then you should immediately realize the film’s method of disposing of corpses doesn’t sit well either.