VCUarts Cinema professor Kirk Kjeldsen and Rob Tregenza, program director, collaborated on their feature Gavagai, which was reviewed by influential film critic Richard Brody for The New Yorker. Brody wrote an in-depth review calling the film “extraordinary and memorable.”
The film opens with a minutes-long shot of the film’s central protagonist, played by Lust, after he has stepped off a train. In their reviews, critics invariably pointed to the scene with admiration. In his four-star review, Chuck Bowen of Slant wrote that the scene was compelling, unique and indicative of the sharp, surprising power found throughout the film.
“This sequence becomes an expression of grief, translating a difficult, highly personal emotion into a sonata of quotidian gestures that cumulatively feel as if they’ve never been quite captured by a filmmaker in this fashion,” Bowen wrote. “This is the magic of ‘Gavagai’ … Remarkably, nearly ever sequence in ‘Gavagai’ is this special.”
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