The line between seen and unseen threats is a prominent theme in pieter van heess waste land. Waste land, for this detective, to brood is to live. Waste land selected for official competition at film fest gent. A brussels homicide cop jeremie renier begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder. Waste land is een belgische film uit 2014 onder regie van pieter van hees. Nov 18, 2014 katie chats with director pieter van hees about his film, waste land, screening at tiff toronto international film festival. Sevigny was previously attached to a lizzie borden project with hbo, but will pursue this instead. Intense and hallucinatory, pieter van hees final entry into his anatomy of love and pain trilogy is a portrait of a life immersed in the suffering of others and the resulting inseparability of work and family. Waste land pieter van hees, 2014 5 juni 2015 vanity celis shooting up a genre film with a heavy dose of cultural criticism might have been the bread and butter of the 1970s but seems positively out of style today.
Belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of soul with a neonoir tinged mystery concerning the unraveling of a relationship and the loss of love. Belgian writerdirector pieter van hees plunges us into an unsettling and bloodsoaked world, providing a contemporary take on the classic film. After graduating in literature, pieter van hees belgium, 1970 started film school in brussels. Apart from theatre productions, you can watch him perform in the feature films left bank linkeroever and dirty mind, both directed by pieter van hees. Waste land is a psychological thriller by pieter van hees about a man and a city in crisis during the 9 months of pregnancy of his wife. Waste land cleveland international film festival april 7. Even if he is always searching for a personal way, his movies are appreciated by a large public. Waste land, a 2010 documentary about brazilian trashpickers. Gene siskel film center of the school of the art institute of chicago 164 n.
Aug 21, 2014 waste land, the third feature by pieter van hees, has been selected for the official international competition at the 41st film fest gent. Best film waste land 2014 best director waste land 2014 best screenplay waste land 2014 les arcs european film festival. Jeremie renier the kid with a bike stars in pieter van hees torontobound thriller brussels may not exactly be a waste land, as per the title of belgian writerdirector pieter van hees. He made several short films with strong festival careers before embarking on a trilogy of features called anatomy of love and pain, in which writerdirector van hees dissects all aspects of a relationship. City streets come a lot meaner than those of brussels. Find movie and film cast and crew information for waste land 2014 pieter van hees on allmovie.
But his convictions start to crumble when kathleen unexpectedly becomes pregnant. Pieter van hees film waste land can easily be recognized as an anthology of. Katie chats with director pieter van hees about his film, waste land, screening at tiff toronto international film festival. Pieter van hees, who helmed the 2014 film waste land, will direct the new untitled psychological thriller about the grisly murders of the borden family.
Pieter van hees film profile, belgian director pieter van hees could easily have quoted this verse that sums up quite aptly the sombre and gripping atmosphere of his film, screened in competition at the. Waste land pieter van hees, 2014 5 juni 2015 vanity celis shooting up a genre film with a heavy dose of cultural criticism might have been the bread and butter. Waste lands muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film. Sep 06, 2014 belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of soul with a neonoir tinged mystery concerning the unraveling of a relationship and the loss of love. Lands muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film noir it aspires to be. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
Belgian director pieter van hees completes his thematically connected anatomy of love and pain trilogy with waste land, exploring the idea of. A character drama about a belgian homicide detective struggling to maintain his humanity, pieter van hees waste land doesnt end up amounting to much, but its well acted and made by an assured filmmaker. Pieter van hees to direct american film about lizzie. By jason anderson in cinema scope online, tiff 2014. Kristen stewart, chloe sevigny to star in lizzie borden movie. Waste land s muddled maelstrom of a story never quite builds into the cohesive, intoxicating film noir it aspires to be. What begins with a straightshooting yet violently impulsive detectives routine murder investigation quickly jumps down a rabbit hole into dark, trippy cultural mysticism. Culminating in a nightmarish, hairraising finale, waste land lingers long after the lights come up. This will be the european premiere, after having its world premiere at toronto international film festival.
Tiff 2014 waste land pieter van hees, belgium vanguard. Jeremie renier gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as leo, a cop assigned to high profile, often grisly murder. This page was last edited on 24 september 2018, at 03. Waste land 2014 pieter van hees cast and crew allmovie. Actually, its probably a disserve to describe the newest film by writerdirector pieter van hees left bank. Stewart is currently filming the latest movie by woody allen. The three movies are narrated from the perspective of a character in a crisis relationship. Eliots famed 1922 poem, van hees has crafted a surreal nightmare that.
Pieter van hees, who directed the 2014 film waste land, will helm the film with bryce kass writing the script. Eliots famed 1922 poem, van hees has crafted a surreal nightmare that contains some profound mutations concerning historical atrocities from europes colonialist past, a dark blight which belgium was also intertwined. Van hees pictured is a tv and film director responsible for the thrillers linkeroever, dirty mind and the recent waste land, the story of a troubled police detective caught up in brussels congolese underground. One of the most respected publications on film, uniting experienced critics with new writers. Waste land tops the list with a spectacular nominations inc. Best flemish coproduction meilleur film flamand en coproduction waste land 2014 mediawave, hungary. Pieter van hees director a deviant crime thriller rendezvous at the les arcs festival with belgian director pieter van hees who deciphers his gripping psychological thriller waste land. Wasteland, a world in which epic mickey and epic mickey 2. Director van hees delivers with waste land a pshycotic thriller where homecide detective leo woeste struggles with a personal battle against the criminal waste land of brussels. Director van hees left bank evokes raw reminders of europes colonial past and infuses this neonoir with suggestions of the supernatural when the death of a teenaged congolese immigrant draws leo renier, of the dardennes the child into. Kristen stewart, chloe sevigny to star in lizzie borden. He is a director and writer, known for waste land 2014, linkeroever 2008 and black xxxmas 1999. Waste land is the 3rd part of a trilogy called anatomy of love and pain.
Pieter van hees is without any doubt one of the most interesting directors in belgium. Media in category pieter van hees this category contains only the following file. Pieter van heess films include left bank, dirty mind, generation b, small gods. Sep 04, 2014 waste land vanguard a character drama about a belgian homicide detective struggling to maintain his humanity, pieter van hees waste land doesnt end up amounting to much, but its well acted and made by an assured filmmaker. Dealing with the capitals grim underbelly on a daily basis, taciturn homicide detective leo woeste lives with kathleen and her fiveyearold son.
Waste land is the last chapter of a trilogy about the anatomy of love and pain, as the director says. The winners will be announced on at a gala closing the ostend film festival on 19 september. Indeed, at one point in this initially intriguing but increasingly turgid belgian thriller, the central homicide detective played by jeremie renier gets razzed about the citys murder rate, which is puny by the standards of the cops in seven, bad lieutenant and waste lands many other american points of reference. Belgian writerdirector pieter van hees plunges us into an unsettling and blood soaked world, providing a contemporary take on the classic film. Ive always nurtured the idea that the individual films should be singular exercises in a specific genre. Waste land, the third feature by pieter van hees, has been selected for the official international competition at the 41st film fest gent.
1330 104 1188 508 514 716 395 877 210 1497 345 1373 554 846 1376 1026 1157 896 1617 1626 170 1103 279 742 464 1332 1231 916 1420 1072 838 727 365 1224 1607 977 375 156 1235 1223 273 472 1383