A poor 11 year old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s amsterdam. A film by theo anthony across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Fitz of fury imdb has 180min directors cut as runtime. Unfortunately, it feels almost too bizarre for its own good, and ultimately looses a lot of its impact due to its strange and very inconsistent visuals, tone, and themes. Ciske moet elke middag werken bij zijn moeder in het cafe. Mar 23, 2017 the pretitle image in rat film is of the titular critter desperately attempting to escape a trash can, as a narrator informs us that rats can jump 32 inches in the air, while a baltimore trash can is 34 inches tall, just high enough to keep the rodent in its place. Sep 14, 2017 equal parts disturbing and humorous, informative and bizarre, rat film is a brilliantly imaginative and formally experimental essay on how baltimore has dealt with its rat problem and. After school, he helps out in a pub, where his mother marie also works. A singular, illuminating look at baltimores social. These observations lend an air of unreality to the city. With kees brusse, jenny van maerlant, riek schagen, stine lerou.
It was made into two films, a television series and a musical. Featuring an original score by dan deacon, rat film is an aesthetically radical and politically incisive achievement of the highest order. Lovable amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the dutch 1984 title suggests. The pretitle image in rat film is of the titular critter desperately attempting to escape a trash can, as a narrator informs us that rats can jump 32 inches in the air, while a baltimore trash can is 34 inches tall, just high enough to keep the rodent in its place. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore.
In rat film, the catastrophic failures of urban society in baltimore is explored via the brown norway rat, dirty pest to man but also an ideal subject for experimental study. Het is aan het begin van het school jaar in 1930 in amsterdam. A unique blend of history, science and scifi, poetry and portraiture, rat film explores how racial segregation, discriminatory lending practices known as redlining, and environmental racism. Rat film takes a deep dive through the history of baltimores city planning and the atrocities that bigotry in that arena has perpetrated on the citys black population. Rating is available when the video has been rented. The film was remade in 1984 and turned into a popular musical in 2007. Betje is een heel lief maar verschrikkelijk dom meisje. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a poliocrippled boy joins the class ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. Theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. Nederlands instituut voor beeld en geluid 16,282 views. Rat film connecting rat population and classism in. It is part of the ciske trilogy which was written between 1941 and 1946.
This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. It makes you think, wonder, and feel a lot of emotions all at once. Lovable amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the german 1955 title suggests. Rat film is a story about baltimore that isnt just about baltimore. With a haunting score by baltimore native dan deacon, rat film is a chilling documentary that refuses any easy answers. With 2,433,000 viewers it is the third best visited movie of the dutch cinema. Superb, formally inventive documentary smells a rat and it is us the film examines many facets of baltimores social and political history to drive a pointed, deliberate argument. Rat film, directed by theo anthony, film society of lincoln center, september 1529, 2017. Equal parts disturbing and humorous, informative and bizarre, rat film is a brilliantly imaginative and formally experimental essay on how baltimore has dealt with its rat problem and. Rat film doc transforms unwelcome critters into metaphor of human inequality by joe oconnell, 12.
Jun 12, 2014 this feature is not available right now. The rat catcher makes predictions, the locals hunt for rats at night on the streets or lie in wait with a gun in the garden. As the film proclaims, theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. The coronavirus crisis in seattle is a major threat to the strangers ability to keep the. Documentary follows harold edmond, who explains the places where you can find a rat. Seattles only movie times calendar, from the stranger. His mother works in a bar and ciske helps out often. Ciske has to change school, because he poured ink over his teachers head. Sparked by his chance encounter with a rat stuck in a garbage can, the baltimorebased filmmaker theo anthony investigates the citys rodent infestation and uncovers its surprising. At the end of wwii a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Watch the clip titled harold edmond for the film rat film 2017. Yet when a poliocrippled boy joins the class ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a. Het boek is direct een succes en er worden 50 000 exemplaren van.
He causes havoc in the classroom, yet when a boy crippled by polio joins the class, he is one of the few children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. Despite the title, the core of rat film is deeply human an unflinching anthropological look at the racial injustices entrenched into the citys past. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans who love them, live with them, and kill them to explore the history of baltimore, a city with such a large rodent population that their garbage cans are even designed according to how high rats can jump. From the flurry of sequences that launches rat film, theo anthonys experimental documentary about segregation in baltimore, its immediately apparent that the film is constructed from juxtapositions.
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