Synopsis
The documentary REDEMTION by Sabrina Wulff is invited to the Cinéma du reél in Paris and will be screened on 5th of march 2009 at the International Competition.Redemption accompanies three US-deserters in Canada on the journey through their memories, leading them back to their time in the war; to the uncertainty of their own existence, through the maze of truth and deception, guilt and innocence, obedience and disobedience. It shows their attempts to leave that life behind and begin another.
Cinéma du Réel 2009:
redemption belongs to the same lineage of films as john huston’s let there be light (1946) and michael grigsby’s i was a soldier (1970), and challenges this “breaking point” that “any man has inside him”. almost 40 years separate i was a soldier from redemption, but this distance only serves to heighten the formal closeness of the two films. the same landscapes, the same sense of confinement, the same refusal to use broadcasting archival footage, as if the only way of approaching the truth of human nature, of pinpointing the evil, was to first create a void and clear away the flood of media.
