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TheCrow

Nov 15 2004, 09:54 PM

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ABOUT THE MOVIE

Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to revenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.

Strings is a fantasy film set in a magnificent and profoundly unique visual universe.

Only one man can untangle the ties of history -
Only one woman can show him the way

Genre: Fantasy - Strings is set in a unique marionette universe.

Original script: Naja Marie Aidt & Anders Rønnow Klarlund

Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund

Format: Scope 35 mm.

Duration: Approx. 85 min.

Target audience: 9 years and up; a film for the whole family and all fantasy lovers!

Budget: € 4 mill.

There's a synopsis on the main page of the site. It's definately a cool and interesting concept -

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I began to wonder how the world would appear, if I was a marionette, and I drew up a sketch of a marionette fleeing his enemy. The puppet was sitting in a treetop while tens of thousands of strings, was closing in on him.

- and sounds like a cool story too. It should be different, different and/but good. Sadly there is no sign that there will be a US/UK release.

If you go on the official site and click on the poster underneath 'Welcome' it loads up an Adobe Acrobat thing with the info on and some cool pictures from the movie and if you go to Production on the menu there is a slideshow with some pictures on too.

TheCrow

Nov 15 2004, 09:56 PM

This is a review on the IMDB page:

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Date: 25 August 2004
Summary: A unique take on the fantasy genre with puppets

I watched this movie at the Norwegian International Film Festival, and I was totally blown away. The atmosphere, world and characters this movie introduces you to feels so incredibly unique and extraordinary.

The most brilliant thing, however, is the fact that instead of editing out the strings, or pretending that they're not there, they use the strings as a sort of...lifeforce.. If somebody looses their head-string, they're dead. This simple fact made the world seem even more real, and suddenly made the puppets into something living.

If I had to say anything negative about this movie at all, it's the fact that since the mouths of the puppets aren't moving when they're talking it's a bit difficult to get into at first. I found myself confused in the beginning as to whom it was that was talking, but I guess this is just the nature of movies that use puppets like these.

I couldn't recommend this movie any stronger than I do. Pray that this gets a US distributor, because as of now it's not picked up.

It sounds really good. I hope it gets a release throughout the rest of Europe and US.

TheCrow

May 21 2005, 04:14 PM

bump

There's a trailer available on the official site in 3 formats (quicktime, wmv and flash) which is very worth downloading and checking out.

Maekrix

May 21 2005, 05:31 PM

Looks pretty interesting. The 'blind hate, blind love' theme about hating for no reason seems kind of new to the big fantasy movies. I'd watch it

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