Olaf de Fleur

26.9.2008 | 22:14

Raquela opnar í USA

Í dag opnar "Queen Raquela" í USA. Miðað við að um 90% kvikmynda fá ekki bíódreifingu þá er ótrúlegt hvað þessi litla mynd hefur teigt úr sér.

Hérna er yfirlit yfir gagnrýni, hún er á twist og bast, ýmist mjög góð eða misjöfn. Það sem helst flækist fyrir fólki er að notuð er tænki heimildamyndar við að gera leikna mynd. Sumir þola það ekki, aðrir eru hrifnir eins og gengur og gerist. Eins og þroskaður einstaklingur hef ég einungis tekið saman það jákvæða.

"The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela," opens in New York (Quad Cinemas), Los Angeles (Regent Showcase La Brea), Columbus, Ohio (Drexel East) and Palm Springs (cinemas Palme d'Or) theatres Friday 26th September.

LA Times review by Kevin Thomas.
“What's amazing is how Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson managed to start out making a faux documentary on Filipina transsexual Raquela Rios and then turn it into a poignant narrative with The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela."
latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-capsules26-2008sep26,0,487634.story

Hollywood Reporter review by Stephen Farber.
“Bottom Line: A fascinating, nonjudgmental portrait of Philippine ladyboys.”
hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=11678

EdgeLosAngeles.com by Michael Diamond.
“It is a fascinating hybrid much like Raquela herself, who is a young "ladyboy," aka a transsexual.”
edgelosangeles.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=movies&sc2=&sc3=features&id=80299

Frontier Publishing:
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Starring Raquela Rios, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa
Unrated, 80 mins - ***1/2 (of 4 stars)
Raquela is a “ladyboy” (male-to-female transsexual) prostitute living in Cebu City, Philippines. With dreams of a life in Paris and true romance, she seeks opportunities and a man via the internet. After several letdowns, life takes a turn for the better when she's hired to provide content for a naughty ladyboy Web site. Raquela makes connections and is able to pursue her goals, heading to Iceland and eventually Paris thanks to the Web site's smitten American owner, Michael. Icelandic director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson artfully and entertainingly blends documentary with narrative storytelling: Most of the people and events depicted are real or recreated. We root for, and sometimes pity, Raquela through the various indignities and calamities she endures (and cringe when she mentions her aversion to condoms) throughout her journey. Playing herself, Raquela—whose voice is strangely shrill due to a childhood illness—is likeable, as is her clique of fellow ladyboys and friends. But the film's show-stealer is producer/actor Stefan Schaefer as the vulgar, selfish, yet occasionally altruistic Michael. —LAWRENCE FERBER

AfterElton.com
“A unique little film opens this week in NYC and LA that is definitely worth checking out if you're in either city and are looking for a reprieve from the junk cramming the multiplexes lately.”
afterelton.com/blog/brianjuergens/out-at-the-movies-amazing-truth-about-queen-raquela-choke-towelhead

Campus Circle
“Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s Queen Raquela employs a creative near-documentary style to explore the world of the Filipino ladyboy with compassion and objectivity.”
campuscircle.com/review.cfm?r=6874

LA City Beat review by Annlee Ellingson.
“Documentarian Olaf de Fleur Johannesson films this fairy tale in cinema verite style, shaping narrative elements around the real-life Raquela. This aesthetic lends the production authenticity – one senses that the events could be, and are, happening somewhere.”
lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/latest_reviews_september_25_october_1_2008/7540/

The Onion review by Noel Murray
“Icelandic documentarian Olaf de Fleur openly blends fact and fiction in The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela , the partially true story of the Filipino transsexual Raquela Rios...”

IFCFilmNews.com
“Offering up the most unlikely fairytale you're ever likely to see, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson draws on his documentary background with this endearing low-budget, semi-improvised Cinderella story.”
ifc.com/film/film-news

Bakitwhy
Ignoring rules of expectation, director Olaf de Fleur brings us his award-winning independent film which can only be categorized, as he calls it, a "visionmentary."
http://www.bakitwhy.com/2008/09/queen-raquela.html

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Athugasemdir

U Should B Proud of your work son.

Virkilega góð heimildarkvikmynd hér á ferð.

Ómar Ingi, 26.9.2008 kl. 22:18

Sá að LA Times dómurinn er flokkaður sem "rotten" á Rottentomatoes.com þrátt fyrir að vera afskaplega jákvæður, þekkirðu ekki einhvern sem getur lagað það - þá myndi hún líka komast yfir fersku 60 prósentin þar ...

Ásgeir H Ingólfsson (IP-tala skráð) 26.9.2008 kl. 23:36