摇摆于纪录片和真实电影之中retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, “before it was too late,” reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction. By filming “everything that touched me,” Akerman sifts through and fixes upon sounds and images as she follows the thread of this subjective crossing. Unfolding without dialogue or commentary, FROM THE EAST takes the form of a cinematic elegy.
我宁可耗时间看事件的纪录片、连环杀人案的真实记载、也不愿意再看这样没有重点、没有结果的片子冗长乏味、没有任何紧张感可言、紧密度不高、一条线索接着就抛弃了另一条、警察都放弃了、只有一个小记者在坚持调查、试图把线索串在一起、感觉有点不可思议、可是、但是最终还是没有结果这种坚持在电影中就变成了虚无、荒唐既然拍成电影却平淡而乏味、毫无新颖之处一部纪录片该多好、至少像The Most Evil那样值得人去观看