SATURDAY SHORT: THREE… OR APPLE? (2009)
Uncomfortably silent, slightly depressive, and undeniably strange, Nikola Gocic’s “Three… or Apple?” is a mysterious, dreamlike experience weird enthusiasts are sure to enjoy.
Uncomfortably silent, slightly depressive, and undeniably strange, Nikola Gocic’s “Three… or Apple?” is a mysterious, dreamlike experience weird enthusiasts are sure to enjoy.
“My dear, our world is hopelessly boring. Therefore, there can be no telepathy, or apparitions, or flying saucers, nothing like that. The world is ruled by cast-iron laws, and it’s insufferably boring. Alas, those laws are never violated. They don’t know how to be violated…. To live in the Middle Ages was interesting. Every home [...]
“I wanted the film to be about the fatal attachment of Russians to their national roots, an attachment which they will carry with them for their entire lives, regardless of where destiny may fling them. How could I have imagined as I was making Nostalghia that the stifling sense of longing that fills the screen [...]