9º – Paradise: Faith (Ulrich Seidl, 2012)
Ulrich Seidl delivers here the best film of the controversial trilogy of paradise. A film that questions the ethical and moral pillars intrinsic to a society, pouring good doses of hammer on the spectator. We will have provocative themes present in the work, such as fetishism and the concept of faith as an escape from the perverse. ‘Paradise – Faith’ will still make its thematic connection in history with a great classic by Chantal Akerman, the masterpiece ‘Jeanne Dielman’.
8º – Crime and Punishment (Aki Kaurismäki, 1983)
Based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the film tells the story of an ordinary worker who decides, without apparent motivation, to murder a rich man. The film gains its substance by exploring the events after such an act, showing the existential dilemmas of man, his relationship with a witness who witnessed the murder and the figure of life in its most visceral roots. A more serious work of the fantastic filmography of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, ‘Crime and Punishment’ makes explicit the unpredictable character of the human being, pondering about time, the weight of the past, the absence of the present and aversion to the future.
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