Jim Sturgess And Kirsten Dunst Romance UPSIDE DOWN
It was all the way back in 2003 when director Juan Solanas caught the eye of savvy film fans around the globe. It was his stunning, Jeunet influenced short The Man Without A Head that did it, a technical dazzler set in a post apocalyptic world in which a man who literally has no head prepares for a date.
Fans of that short have been waiting for Solanas to display his visual skills on the big screen ever since but his first feature - Nordeste - took a much more realistic approach. Feature number two, however, is a different matter.
Titled Upside Down, Solanas' sophomore feature has been in the works since 2009. The picture stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess in a sort of Romeo And Juliet story of forbidden love with the kicker being it's not their families keeping them apart but the fact that they live in two different worlds - one inverted over the other - which are forbidden to interact despite being in plain site of one another.
The graphic depiction of class division has been a greatly anticipated effort, a relatively big budget affair for a European science fiction production, and Solanas is clearly a director with the technical ability to pull it off. The question, however, is how well he can manage working outside of his native language. It's a risky business, the rhythms and emphasis of performances often being lost in translation with directors either missing what the actors are doing or pushing them to match rhythms that would be appropriate to the directors' own language rather than to the language of the performance. It's a problem that has eaten up many talented folk - for an example go back to Jeunet and watch Alien Resurrection - and it would appear Solanas is not immune.
Despite the relatively big name cast Upside Down has yet to secure distribution in North America and while the just released trailer is packed full of visual dazzle something is just off every time someone speaks. There's always the possibility that the issue is with the editing of the trailer and not the film itself but take a look below to see what I mean.
Fans of that short have been waiting for Solanas to display his visual skills on the big screen ever since but his first feature - Nordeste - took a much more realistic approach. Feature number two, however, is a different matter.
Titled Upside Down, Solanas' sophomore feature has been in the works since 2009. The picture stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess in a sort of Romeo And Juliet story of forbidden love with the kicker being it's not their families keeping them apart but the fact that they live in two different worlds - one inverted over the other - which are forbidden to interact despite being in plain site of one another.
The graphic depiction of class division has been a greatly anticipated effort, a relatively big budget affair for a European science fiction production, and Solanas is clearly a director with the technical ability to pull it off. The question, however, is how well he can manage working outside of his native language. It's a risky business, the rhythms and emphasis of performances often being lost in translation with directors either missing what the actors are doing or pushing them to match rhythms that would be appropriate to the directors' own language rather than to the language of the performance. It's a problem that has eaten up many talented folk - for an example go back to Jeunet and watch Alien Resurrection - and it would appear Solanas is not immune.
Despite the relatively big name cast Upside Down has yet to secure distribution in North America and while the just released trailer is packed full of visual dazzle something is just off every time someone speaks. There's always the possibility that the issue is with the editing of the trailer and not the film itself but take a look below to see what I mean.
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