'Teza' gives a woefully unclear look at Ethiopia
di Michael Ordoña The Los Angeles Times
Haile Gerima's "Teza" throws you in the deep end and cares little if you swim. The scope of its events is epic; its perception epically narrow. It's a fragmented view of about 20 years of extremely turbulent times in Ethiopia, as seen through the eyes of a seemingly anhedonic intellectual who spends much of the film out of the country.
For Americans who have paid little attention to the terrible undulations of power and seemingly endless civil war in countries such as Ethiopia, much of the strife in the film will be only vaguely understood: Marxist idealists abroad celebrate the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, only to find the brave new world to be full of chaos and brutality. [...]
di Michael Ordoña, articolo completo (1588 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 24 settembre 2010