At the heart of the film's multiple narratives is an adaptation of A Distant Episode, the savage short story set in Morocco by American author Paul Bowles, first published in 1947. Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, "The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers" observes its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe, directing his own film Las Mimosas in Morocco, only to walk off set and into Rivers' narrative. Shot against the staggering be... (Full plot summary below)
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At the heart of the film's multiple narratives is an adaptation of A Distant Episode, the savage short story set in Morocco by American author Paul Bowles, first published in 1947. Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, "The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers" observes its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe, directing his own film Las Mimosas in Morocco, only to walk off set and into Rivers' narrative. Shot against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the Sahara, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, Laxe is drawn into a hallucinatory and perilous adventure of cruelty and madness to form a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself. "In a café in Morocco, about 50 years ago, Paul Bowles overheard a man, high on kif, say the title of this film. And so he wrote a story around this statement, a story that moves between different planes of reality. I read the story, and the story behind the story, and the strange phrase kept circling around my mind, creating images and dreams. This film is a manifestation of these images, along with obsessions about cinema and how far we will go to make it". Oliver Laxe.
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| Willamette WeekSophia JuneThe first half of the film feels unmotivated and long, with shots casually thrown together to create one man's picture of Morocco, while the second half is overwrought with the captured filmmaker being brutalised. |
| CineVueBen NicholsonThere are no answers here, as there were not in Bowles original story, but there are fascinating questions about the paths we travel and the tracks we leave behind. |
| Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThere is a savage beauty to this work, which is very loosely based on a short story by Paul Bowles, but it is a demanding, difficult viewing experience. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawMaybe nothing in the film can live up to the superb, surreal menace of its title, but it's a very shrewd commentary on Bowles's story. |
| Total FilmMatt LookerThere are lots of themes floating around but none have much impact. |
| Cinema ScopeLeo GoldsmithRivers' latest work is a sprawling set of projects whose variety, size, and complexity matches the verbosity of its title. |
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
