i militari serial killer indonesiani sono dentro alcuni
grandi film, come “Un anno vissuto pericolosamente”, di Peter Weir e i due grandi
film documentari di Joshua Oppenheimer, (qui
e qui).
“Balibo” e ambientato a Timor est (prima sotto il dominio portoghese e poi
sotto il giogo degli indonesiani, che uccisero 200000 persone, col benestare
Usa, con gli australiani che giravano la faccia, e col resto del mondo
indifferente).
Nel 1996 Jose Ramos Horta (in esilio) e Carlos Filipe
Ximenes Belo (vescovo timorese) hanno vinto il premio Nobel per la pace, nel
2002 Timor Est è diventato indipendente.
protagonisti del film sono Oscar Isaac (Jose Ramos Horta),
quando ancora non era il cantante folk dei fratelli Coen, e Anthony LaPaglia (Roger East), che sono davvero
bravissimi e convincenti, la musica è di Lisa Gerrard.
film mai passato nelle nostre
sale, eppure è un signor film, coinvolgente ed emozionante, niente da invidiare
a quelli di Peter Weir e Joshua Oppenheimer,
cercatelo, non ve ne pentirete, promesso - Ismaele
…Balibo dramatises the fate of the five young reporters through a
series of flashbacks, which are combined with the story of Australian
journalist Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia) who travelled to Balibo four weeks
after the murders.
The movie opens with testimony
from Julianna, an East Timorese woman who witnessed some of the Indonesian
atrocities. It then moves back to the northern Australian city of Darwin in
late October 1975, where Fretilin secretary of foreign affairs, Jose
Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaacs), has located Roger East.
The world-weary 51-year-old
reporter displays little interest in what is going on in East Timor until the
25-year-old Ramos-Horta gives him a file on the murder of the television
reporters. The Fretilin leader offers to take East to where the reporters were
killed, if he will head the newly-created East Timor News Agency…
…Balibo is
a powerful film, notable for a remarkable performance by Oliver Isaac as the
young Horta, plus a sensitive, moving performance from Anthony LaPaglia and for
the very real sense of place - thanks to actual East Timor locations. The
Indonesians don't come off too well, as you'd expect, but the performances are
terrific (and chilling). Lisa Gerrard's infinite good taste delivers a series
of music cues that are beautiful yet melancholy in the way only she can.
…Director
Robert Connolly and his co-script writer David Williamson have chosen is to
tell the story from the point of view of an Indonesian woman who recalls the
events as an eight year old girl. This suggests everything we see is witnessed
by her, which is not the case as the film ambitiously intercuts the two main
strands of the story, including documentary-like flashbacks that show what
horrors took place with the missing journalists. The pieces of the puzzle are
gradually put together. The backdrop is the 1975 invasion of East Timor by
Indonesia and the massacre that even today, the Indonesian and Australian
Governments deny…
…“Balibo” es una película que obliga a
realizar un ejercicio de memoria y a abrir los ojos a un conflicto olvidado, y
lo hace con vigor y aplomo, dándole extrema fuerza a su reconstrucción de los
acontecimientos sacrificando otras reflexiones y exploraciones que le hubiesen
dado todavía una mayor dimensión.
…“Balibo”
is shocking, raw and absorbing filmmaking of the very highest quality, which
benefits from its directorial craft and compelling acting — but most
importantly from its verity.
…LaPaglia is
excellent as the reluctant hero, acting as our surrogate as he gradually pieces
together the last moves of these young men, but you can't help feeling that a
stronger film would have emerged if more time was spent with the Five rather
than the One.
Despite its structural instability,
Connolly still manages to find plenty of poignancy in the TV journalists'
reports - much, presumably, based on film that the actual men shot - and to
gather an emotional head of steam for the climatic scenes. A coda using newsreel
footage to detail what happened to Ramos-Horta and the country in the years
that followed is a powerful and welcome way to 'resolve' the story.
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