The better you know Samuel Beckett's play ENDGAME, the more you will get what PIN DE FARTIE is doing. I say that because the film is several riffs on the play... or rather one riff, one rehearsal of it and a son reading it to his blind mother. We also have filmmakers making a film about the various stories and singing songs.
I loved this film.
To me this film makes the case that the Beckett estate has to loosen the tight reigns on the plays, you must perform them exactly as written, because when you allow variations on how the play is performed magic happens. This is the play and something more. It opened my eyes to what the play could be.
There is so much I want to say, but I don't want to spoil all of it. I do want to say that the section of the film where two actors meet once a week to rehearse the play might me one the greatest love stories ever filmed. Certainly the acting is some of the greatest acting I've ever seen in a love story- where there is no actual romance- but where you can see the two characters are gob smacked in love with each other. I want someone to look at me the way that those actors look at each other.
Why this is playing in the Currents section of the NYFF is beyond me because this film is one of the best of the fest and the first film that belongs in the festival that I've seen.
This film is a masterpiece.
Highly recommended.
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