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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them.
Distant Constellation
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This haunted reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents revel in the camera’s attention. A creaky-voiced woman shares her personal account of the Armenian genocide, a sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love and a blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. All the while, however, the ominous transformation of the land is taking place at the hands of construction machinery.
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Little White Lies by Mark Asch
Mizrahi films one-on-one interviews with a shallow depth of field, so that her subjects appear with the occluded intensity of their own remembrances.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Far from the filmmaker in both life experience and proximity to the cosmic unknown, the subjects making up this constellation — elderly men and women who evince no self-consciousness around her — are diverse enough to support any number of theories about this graceful film's ultimate meaning.
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Film Journal International by Simi Horwitz
The contrast between young and old, life ending, life continuing, is leaned on too heavily.
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The Guardian by Cath Clarke
It’s a thoughtful, dream-like film, but, in the end, I’m not sure what Distant Constellation is saying about age or memory.
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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Said to be intended as a reflection on shifts in Turkish history and identity, it is too diffuse and withholding to add up to a cogent result.
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