Estonia,
1987, 30 min
Shown in 1989
CREDITS
- dir
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Mark Soosaar
- source
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Tallinnfilm
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COMMENTS
Shown with Islands. Mark Soosaar in person.
OTHER
In A Life Without... Mark Soosaar penetrates the life of an Estonian dairy worker blamed for her teenage son's suicide. Whether treating timeless themes or probing topical issues, even taboo social problems like teenage suicide, this Estonian filmmaker displays virtuoso mastery of the medium in adapting style to subject.
FACTOID #134
The 1986 San Francisco International’s Discovering Mike Leigh was the director’s first retrospective in the U.S. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Festival Artistic Director Peter Scarlet compared the then-unknown Leigh to Yasujiro Ozu before his work had achieved international recognition; while the latter director had been considered ’too Japanese’ for global audiences, Leigh was considered ’too British.’
