[Frameworks] help recalling film

[Adam Hyman]

Hi,

The second one almost sounds like it could be Vlatko Gilic's One Day More
(Dan Vise) but that is b&w, from the early 1970s perhaps.

Best,

Adam


On 7/13/10 11:48 AM, "Carl Lee" <carljlee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all -
> 
> I'm hoping someone out there might be able to help.  I'm trying to track
> down a couple films I saw many years ago but of which I am completely
> unable to remember the names or maker.  I hoping it'll be obvious to
> some of you.  I remember details vividly still, because they were such
> vivid, keenly shot films.  Here's what I remember:
> 
> - "documentary" films;
> - shot on film, with color and sound
> - filmmaker is from Eastern Europe, maybe?;
> - observational; no dialogue, no interviews;
> - one was set in a slaughterhouse, with much sharpening of knives, blood
> and relentless scrubbing, but no explicit depiction of the actual
> killing.  Lots of close-ups, little in the way of establishing shots to
> orient oneself in the space;
> - The other was set at a hot spring where people go to get healed,
> perhaps?  Many shots of elderly people with beautiful, wrinkled faces
> soaking in the water; maybe has a Latin title?  Similar formal approach
> as the first one;
> 
> Does this ring any bells?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Carl
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