Intense and hallucinatory, pieter van hees final entry into his anatomy of love and pain trilogy is a portrait of a life immersed in the suffering of others and the resulting inseparability of work and family. Pieter van hees, who helmed the 2014 film waste land, will direct the new untitled psychological thriller about the grisly murders of the borden family. Wasteland, a world in which epic mickey and epic mickey 2. Waste land cleveland international film festival april 7. Van hees pictured is a tv and film director responsible for the thrillers linkeroever, dirty mind and the recent waste land, the story of a troubled police detective caught up in brussels congolese underground. Pieter van heess films include left bank, dirty mind, generation b, small gods. Waste land, for this detective, to brood is to live. The winners will be announced on at a gala closing the ostend film festival on 19 september. A character drama about a belgian homicide detective struggling to maintain his humanity, pieter van hees waste land doesnt end up amounting to much, but its well acted and made by an assured filmmaker.
Van hees won best director for waste land at the flemish film awards last month, and the film took home three more ensors, more than any other single film. Director van hees left bank evokes raw reminders of europes colonial past and infuses this neonoir with suggestions of the supernatural when the death of a teenaged congolese immigrant draws leo renier, of the dardennes the child into. What begins with a straightshooting yet violently impulsive detectives routine murder investigation quickly jumps down a rabbit hole into dark, trippy cultural mysticism. Waste land is een belgische film uit 2014 onder regie van pieter van hees. He made several short films with strong festival careers before embarking on a trilogy of features called anatomy of love and pain, in which writerdirector van hees dissects all aspects of a relationship. Apart from theatre productions, you can watch him perform in the feature films left bank linkeroever and dirty mind, both directed by pieter van hees. The line between seen and unseen threats is a prominent theme in pieter van heess waste land. Waste land by pieter van hees and paradise trips by raf reyntjens are the frontrunners for this years ensor awards. Waste land s muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film noir it aspires to be. Pieter van hees to direct american film about lizzie. Sep 04, 2014 waste land vanguard a character drama about a belgian homicide detective struggling to maintain his humanity, pieter van hees waste land doesnt end up amounting to much, but its well acted and made by an assured filmmaker.
All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Jeremie renier about waste land pieter van hees about. Culminating in a nightmarish, hairraising finale, waste land lingers long after the lights come up. Nov 18, 2014 katie chats with director pieter van hees about his film, waste land, screening at tiff toronto international film festival. When his wife gets pregnant unexpectedly, homicide detective leo woeste starts losing himself more and more while he tries to solve one last very bizarre case before his child is born. Director van hees delivers with waste land a pshycotic thriller where homecide detective leo woeste struggles with a personal battle against the criminal waste land of brussels. Belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of soul with a neonoir tinged mystery concerning the unraveling of a relationship and the loss of love. Media in category pieter van hees this category contains only the following file. Waste land pieter van hees, 2014 5 juni 2015 vanity celis shooting up a genre film with a heavy dose of cultural criticism might have been the bread and butter.
Kristen stewart, chloe sevigny to star in lizzie borden. This will be the european premiere, after having its world premiere at toronto international film festival. Waste land, a 2010 documentary about brazilian trashpickers. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Gene siskel film center of the school of the art institute of chicago 164 n. Waste land pieter van hees, 2014 5 juni 2015 vanity celis shooting up a genre film with a heavy dose of cultural criticism might have been the bread and butter of the 1970s but seems positively out of style today. Aug 21, 2014 waste land, the third feature by pieter van hees, has been selected for the official international competition at the 41st film fest gent. He is a director and writer, known for waste land 2014, linkeroever 2008 and black xxxmas 1999. City streets come a lot meaner than those of brussels. A brussels homicide cop jeremie renier begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder. Waste land 2014 pieter van hees cast and crew allmovie. Belgian writerdirector pieter van hees plunges us into an unsettling and blood soaked world, providing a contemporary take on the classic film. Katie chats with director pieter van hees about his film, waste land, screening at tiff toronto international film festival.
Even if he is always searching for a personal way, his movies are appreciated by a large public. Waste land selected for official competition at film fest gent. Pieter van hees director a deviant crime thriller rendezvous at the les arcs festival with belgian director pieter van hees who deciphers his gripping psychological thriller waste land. Best flemish coproduction meilleur film flamand en coproduction waste land 2014 mediawave, hungary. Jeremie renier the kid with a bike stars in pieter van hees torontobound thriller brussels may not exactly be a waste land, as per the title of belgian writerdirector pieter van hees. After graduating in literature, pieter van hees belgium, 1970 started film school in brussels. Actually, its probably a disserve to describe the newest film by writerdirector pieter van hees left bank. Waste land is the 3rd part of a trilogy called anatomy of love and pain. Stewart is currently filming the latest movie by woody allen. Waste land is the last chapter of a trilogy about the anatomy of love and pain, as the director says. Best film waste land 2014 best director waste land 2014 best screenplay waste land 2014 les arcs european film festival. Sevigny was previously attached to a lizzie borden project with hbo, but will pursue this instead.
Dealing with the capitals grim underbelly on a daily basis, taciturn homicide detective leo woeste lives with kathleen and her fiveyearold son. Pieter van hees, who directed the 2014 film waste land, will helm the film with bryce kass writing the script. Waste land led the field at the flemish film awards by winning 4. Waste land is a psychological thriller by pieter van hees about a man and a city in crisis during the 9 months of pregnancy of his wife.
Waste land tops the list with a spectacular nominations inc. Tiff 2014 waste land pieter van hees, belgium vanguard. Oct 28, 2015 pieter van hees, who helmed the 2014 film waste land, will direct the new untitled psychological thriller about the grisly murders of the borden family. Waste land, the third feature by pieter van hees, has been selected for the official international competition at the 41st film fest gent. Waste lands muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film. Pieter van hees film profile, belgian director pieter van hees could easily have quoted this verse that sums up quite aptly the sombre and gripping atmosphere of his film, screened in competition at the. Kristen stewart, chloe sevigny to star in lizzie borden movie. It premiered internationally at the edinburg film festival where it was picked. Find movie and film cast and crew information for waste land 2014 pieter van hees on allmovie. Belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of.
But his convictions start to crumble when kathleen unexpectedly becomes pregnant. Pieter van hees is without any doubt one of the most interesting directors in belgium. One of the most respected publications on film, uniting experienced critics with new writers. Indeed, at one point in this initially intriguing but increasingly turgid belgian thriller, the central homicide detective played by jeremie renier gets razzed about the citys murder rate, which is puny by the standards of the cops in seven, bad lieutenant and waste lands many other american points of reference.
Sep 06, 2014 belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of soul with a neonoir tinged mystery concerning the unraveling of a relationship and the loss of love. Lands muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film noir it aspires to be. Eliots famed 1922 poem, van hees has crafted a surreal nightmare that contains some profound mutations concerning historical atrocities from europes colonialist past, a dark blight which belgium was also intertwined. By jason anderson in cinema scope online, tiff 2014. The three movies are narrated from the perspective of a character in a crisis relationship. This page was last edited on 24 september 2018, at 03. Jeremie renier gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as leo, a cop assigned to high profile, often grisly murder. Belgian writerdirector pieter van hees plunges us into an unsettling and bloodsoaked world, providing a contemporary take on the classic film. Eliots famed 1922 poem, van hees has crafted a surreal nightmare that. Pieter van hees film waste land can easily be recognized as an anthology of. Ive always nurtured the idea that the individual films should be singular exercises in a specific genre.
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