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Examples
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Aaron Hillis's interview with Devor is a refreshing break from the usual "What was it like to work with ..." junket pandering.
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Andy's introducing his interview with writer Charles Mudede, who, with director Robinson Devor, is following up their poetic feature Police Beat with one of the most controversial Sundance entries this year, Zoo.
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In the interests of avoid easy sensationalism and of his admirable and aggressive humanism, Devor avoids the sexual aspect of zoophilia more than zoophiles themselves would likely deem fair - they, after all, may feel love, but they also made considerably earthier home movies ....
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"This is understandable enough, for largely the same reasons that director-coscenarist Robinson Devor is one of the most talented, distinctive and truly independent US filmmakers working today."
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Update, 1/26: "Devor has created a deliberate disjunction between sound and image, and if his interviews with the zoophile community and others associated with the incident clearly constitute nonfiction, the pictures that accompany those words — lyrical recreations, inventions, and allusions — are as vividly imaginative as anything in the oeuvres of Terrence Malick or Claire Denis," writes Mike D'Angelo at ScreenGrab.
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Perhaps that's exactly where Devor wanted to take us as well.
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"Devor, who cites Tarkovsky and Resnais among his influences, eschews the conventional talking-head interview in favor of an allusive, poetic visual style, layering voiceover with Paul Matthew Moore's moody (if occasionally intrusive) piano score and gorgeous 16 mm images of the landscape around Enumclaw," writes Slate's Dana Stevens.
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"By creating such a ravishingly beautiful film, by contrasting the stunning images of nature against the cool environs of civilization (a scene in which a horse is castrated seems far more cruel to the animal than a one-night-stand), Devor makes a persuasive, provocative and deeply profound case for tolerance and understanding in the face of the seemingly most incomprehensible of acts."
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Update, 1/21: For the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan talks with Devor about this "elegant, eerily lyrical film."
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Dennis Lim talks with director Robinson Devor and writer Charles Mudede about Zoo, which sees a limited opening on April 25.
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