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Unrest, dir. Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland 2022, 93 min., Swiss-German, French, Russian with English subtitles
Winner of the Encounters Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, writer-director-editor Cyril Schäublin’s second feature is a creative and intellectually invigorating tale about anarchism and the march of global capitalism.
Russian polymath Pyotr Kropotkin is visiting the watchmaking town of St. Imier in Switzerland, to carry out a geographical survey of the region, when he meets Josephine, a rebellious unrest-fitter. Within the historical, highly staged mise-en-scène, each interaction appears impassive and transactional, which the primarily non-professional cast deliver beautifully.
Cinematographer Silvan Hillmann’s framing of the characters – often on the periphery of the screen – further underpins the notion of an individual being one element within a grander social framework. And its gleefully peculiar and disjoined motifs notwithstanding, Unrest functions intricately like a carefully hand-assembled clock.
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