Sundance: 13 Tzameti
Sunday midnight, January 22/23, 2006. Another Jury award winner, this one won the World Dramatic competition. It was my second favorite film of the festival. The less you know about this film, the more you will enjoy it…so I won’t share much. It starts off with a figurative bang by creating a tension-filled tone…and it ends with a literal one. The black and white aesthetic and sweeping score help it maintain the Hitchcockian feel, but it is the way in which director Gela Babluani manages to portray extremely violent situations by focusing on the mental anxiety that they create rather than their physical portrayal that helps him truly capture the essence of Alfred.
