After travelling around the world, Nina and Mathieu arrive on an island to spend midsummer with friends. As nature and time slowly take their place, they have to confront the emptiness of desire.
As you can tell from the description above, it’s an art film. It’s in black and while, with essentially no dialogue. The six minutes that I watched seemed like hours. I thank whatever god there may be that Defoe watched this so I didn’t have to – and that’s despite non-stop nudity to look at! At the beginning of the clip I thought my player was broken because there was no movement. That scene makes a Tarkovsky movie seem as zippy as a Roadrunner cartoon.
IMDb says it is in English, but I can’t confirm that because I never heard any words, and all the actors are Estonian (I think).
Jessica Luostarinen
Luna Karjakainen
Nina Aboutajedyne
Defoe’s film clip is here. The final portion of the clip features all three actresses and three dudes running stark naked through the woods and plunging in for a swim, celebrating midsummer like good pagans. (Speaking of Tarkovsky! That scene seems to be influenced by Tarkovsky’s B&W masterpiece, Andrei Rublev.) That portion of the clip moves at normal speed. In fact I wish it were a bit slower so I could capture it without motion blur. There is plenty of full body nudity, but it’s dark and difficult to see.