La Gomera Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/la-gomera/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:14:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png La Gomera Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/la-gomera/ 32 32 A Conversation with Corneliu Porumboiu (THE WHISTLERS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/corneliu-porumboiu/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:53:57 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31721 I met with Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) on Friday, September 6, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss The Whistlers (which I also reviewed), his latest film. An engagingly strange, lyrical and melancholy crime thriller, it […]

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]]> THE WHISTLERS (LA GOMERA) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-whistlers-review/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:20:42 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31397

A glorious oddity of a metaphysical thriller, Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (original title “La Gomera,” after the Canary Island where much of the initial action takes place) whisks us back and forth in time and space to keep us constantly guessing about its characters’ next moves.

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