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FROST | Text: J Hoberman, ArtForum International Magazin,
April 1997 The one young German filmmaker to create a stir was thirty-three-year-old Fred Kelemen, a genuine enfant terrible who specializes in preserving dreary hunks of real tune on 16mm. film under conditions of available light. Four and a half hours long, Kelemen's Frost is the ultimate in sodden gloom - a turbid Christmas tale in which an abused mother and her child flee tawdry Berlin to wander the former East Germany, looking for a town that has long since vanished. ....................................................................................................................................... |