![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing in Artforum, Dennis Lim described it as ‘a truly free cinema… one that still believes in the possibility of subversion.’ġ774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. With a title that offers a play on the word libertine, in an increasingly conservative landscape the film feels all the more remarkable. The winner of the Special Jury Prize from Un Certain Regard in Cannes, Liberté - based on the aforementioned play at the Volksbühne and then a two-screen installation at the Reina Sofia in Madrid - stridently pushes a number of boundaries and revels in being audaciously perverse and amorphous. An excerpt from the booklet essay by Jason WoodĬatalan director Albert Serra delights in provocation and in creating ‘unashamedly radical cinema that simultaneously seeks true beauty around historic and philosophical fault lines, where good and bad become irrelevant terms’ (International Film Festival Rotterdam catalogue). ![]()
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