MILLTOWN, MONTANA
Director Rainer Komers
Countries Germany, United States
Duration 35 min
Synopsis
The portrait of a small town lying listlessly in the hills of an industrial zone presupposes characters, sets and sounds. But what is at stake is grasping an overall social, econo-mic, cultural and psychological view that Rainer Komers organizes in an exemplary fashion. Not a single word of commentary or interview punctuates this-literally speaking image film. Framed precisely in the detail of everyday life, close up or long shot, the images set out fragments that depict as much as they evoke of everything that will not be shown of this community that works, suffers and has fun. A film of surprisingly complex simplicity, Milltown, Montana is thus the story of a truly authentic place where people live until late at night in its bars. The following day they are again the actors of a spectacularly ordinary time that stretches between the end of an industrial era, the devastation of natural spaces, and the acts that go with daily chores. (Jean Perret, Visions du Réel - Nyon / Switzerland)
The portrait of a small town lying listlessly in the hills of an industrial zone presupposes characters, sets and sounds. But what is at stake is grasping an overall social, econo-mic, cultural and psychological view that Rainer Komers organizes in an exemplary fashion. Not a single word of commentary or interview punctuates this-literally speaking image film. Framed precisely in the detail of everyday life, close up or long shot, the images set out fragments that depict as much as they evoke of everything that will not be shown of this community that works, suffers and has fun. A film of surprisingly complex simplicity, Milltown, Montana is thus the story of a truly authentic place where people live until late at night in its bars. The following day they are again the actors of a spectacularly ordinary time that stretches between the end of an industrial era, the devastation of natural spaces, and the acts that go with daily chores. (Jean Perret, Visions du Réel - Nyon / Switzerland)