The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 Huonetta)
How many anti-war films can pack a punch without showing any war footage, explaining the politics, or relying on in-depth interviews, in fact barely using dialogue at all? With exquisite cinematography and music, Pirjo Honkasalo instead looks into the eyes and souls of Russian and Chechen children who bear the burden of the hatred generated by the Chechen war. The main characters are young cadets at a Russian Academy, a woman who has adopted 63 orphans and children living in a refugee camp.
Pirjo Honkasalo will be a guest of the Festival
Reviews
“Walloping gut punch The 3 Rooms of Melancholia offers a harrowing docu-look at war and militarism's wounds, as seen through the eyes of Russian and Chechen children.”
Leslie Felperin, Variety
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Meet The Filmmaker Session
Facilitated by the Australian Film Television & Radio School, there will be the opportunity to talk with Director Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland) in a Q&A session in the cinema immediately following the screening of this on Wednesday 23 February at 5:00 PM at Greater Union - Cinema 2
When
5:00 PM Wednesday, 23 February
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Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
General DocumentariesAbout The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
106 minutes35mm
1.85:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In Russian/Arabic/Chechen with English subtitles
Print Source
Millennium Film
Kristina Pervila
kristin.pervila@millenniumfilm.fi
Awards
Human Rights Film Network Award, The Lina Mangiacapre Award, Venice International Film Festival 2004Festivals
Amsterdam 2004Venice 2004
About the Director
Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Honkasalo was born in 1947 in Helsinki. She attended film school at the age of 17 and by 21 she had already shot a feature length film. Honkasalo's first major directing role was for the film Tulipaa, which was chosen for the Cannes Official Selection series in 1980.
Filmography
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)Tulennielijä (1998)
Atman (1996)
Tallinan Tuhkimo (1995)
Tanjuska ja 7 Perkelettä (1993)
Mysterion (1991)
Leonárdon Ikkunát (1986)
Da Capo Pekka Lehto (1985)
250 Grammes: A Radioactive Testament with Pekka Lehto (1983)
Flame Top with Pekka Lehto (1980)
Two Forces with Pekka Lehto (1979)
Svástika (1978)
The Sign of Danger with Pekka Lehto (1978)
Taplo Wirkkala (1977)
The First Cooperative '39 with Pekka Lehto (1977)
Their Age with Pekka Lehto (1976)
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