Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old picks up the narrative and themes begun in Kentridge's first film, Johannesburg the Second Greatest City after Paris, and follows the development of the relationships between his cast of invented characters, Soho Eckstein, his wife and her lover, Felix Teitelbaum. These relationships reflect, metaphorically, the changing political situation in South Africa at the time the film was made. Demonstrations and marches in opposition to the apartheid régime together with the governmental relaxation of most of the State of Emergency regulations and restrictions heralded the beginning of a change in the country's power structure (and white attitudes towards black African rights). Soho, a symbol of South African white power, develops the capacity for awareness, longing and love and the potential for guilt and repentance.
Storyline
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old picks up the narrative and themes begun in Kentridge's first film, Johannesburg the Second Greatest City after Paris, and follows the development of the relationships between his cast of invented characters, Soho Eckstein, his wife and her lover, Felix Teitelbaum. These relationships reflect, metaphorically, the changing political situation in South Africa at the time the film was made. Demonstrations and marches in opposition to the apartheid régime together with the governmental relaxation of most of the State of Emergency regulations and restrictions heralded the beginning of a change in the country's power structure (and white attitudes towards black African rights). Soho, a symbol of South African white power, develops the capacity for awareness, longing and love and the potential for guilt and repentance.
Felix in Exile
5.8The A.R.M.S. Benefit Concert from London
9.0Amman Kovil Kizhakale
5.2My name is Enric Marco
6.0Dragon Quest - Emblem of Roto
5.5Movers & Shakers
3.9Léo et Popi - L'amitié, jouer au grand
10.0Vom Ende der Eiszeit
5.5I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
5.0Be a Man!! Samurai School
4.7Thomasine & Bushrod
6.5Crush the Skull 2
7.0Scream
6.0UFO From Earth to the Moon
10.0Benjamin's Flowers
5.5America Goes Over
5.5Moonchild
4.5Kintsugi
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