{"id":31654,"date":"2019-07-26T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31654"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:12:12","slug":"away-2019-fantasia-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/away-2019-fantasia-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Away (2019) [Fantasia Festival 2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AWAY1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AWAY1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AWAY1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AWAY1-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AWAY1-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Gints Zilbalodis\u2019s \u201cAway\u201d is one of the most dazzling and fantastic animated movies I\u2019ve seen in years, and I\u2019d be stunned if it isn\u2019t appreciated as a masterpiece down the line. Zilbalodis spent years on this work of love committing to every facet of the production himself, and completing what is a tightly packed and briskly paced epic adventure film that is also deceptively simple in its presentation and delivery.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A boy awakes in the middle of nowhere suspended from a lone parched tree by the straps of his tangled parachute. As he assesses his surroundings, an uncanny entity emerges from the obscurity around him. The boy escapes and eludes the monstrosity, at least for long enough to find refuge, water, food, a few vital tools and clues, and a small bird for a companion. A map he discovers shows him the path back to human company, and a motorcycle, the means to get there. The boy, filled with hope, must move forward as the towering, life-threatening creature shambles after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAway\u201d is a silent adventure film with zero dialogue and absolutely no real verbal exposition. Unless you count the occasional gasp, and the noises from the animals, Gints Zilbalodis opts for a film that shows more than talks about what we\u2019re watching. This gives the audience a chance to soak in the film that\u2019s shockingly subtle, but incredibly unsettling. Director and animator Zilbalodis is very much a fan of Miyazaki as his influence is all over the place the moment we begin \u201cAway.\u201d Everything is vast and open, and absolutely beautiful to behold. But every corner also bears its own kind of menace and hidden danger. Along with the curious monster stalking our main character, it amounts to a journey for safety that\u2019s memorable but unnerving.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully \u201cAway\u201d isn\u2019t all about visual pleasures, as the story is intriguing on its own. \u201cAway\u201d allows us to interpret a lot of what we\u2019re watching and decide for ourselves what we\u2019ve experienced. Is this all one big vivid dream? Is the young man escaping a material monster or his own personal demons? Is the monster intent on hurting him or does it have more positive intent toward him that we can\u2019t quite understand? Gints Zilbalodis\u2019s \u201cAway\u201d is a true cinematic feat that thrives on its simplicity while also unfolding a riveting tale of survival and the beauty of nature. I truly hope audiences seek it out very soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 11<sup>th<\/sup> to August 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gints Zilbalodis\u2019s \u201cAway\u201d is one of the most dazzling and fantastic animated movies I\u2019ve seen in years, and I\u2019d be stunned if it isn\u2019t appreciated as a masterpiece down the line. Zilbalodis spent years on this work of love committing to every facet of the production himself, and completing what is a tightly packed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[58,71,99,335,703,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-31654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-experimental","tag-mystery","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31656,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions\/31656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}