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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Three films for the price of one. Tickets is a trio of short films from three great exponents of social-realist cinema: Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami and Ermanno Olmi. The tenuous link between the movies is a train journey from Eastern Europe to Rome and an immigrant family. Intriguingly, these limits placed on the filmmakers highlight the different approaches to telling human stories that each of them have. It kicks off with Olmi’s lonely professor dreaming of love and ends with a group of Celtic fans on the way to a Champions League game, which of course is Loach.The esteemed British director jumped at the chance to take part in the film as soon as he knew who his collaborators would be. “Most directors you don’t really want to work with,” says Loach. “Not because you think you’re better them then, but because they see the world in a different way. So to be asked by two people whose work I really like, that was very nice. The next question was, what should we do? We came up with the idea of the train because it was in the story that Ermanno talked about doing.” The directors then passed the screenplays of their stories to each other. Kiarostami would joke that Olmi said he was doing the start and Loach the end, so he had to work somewhere in the middle. That, though, was it. The trio did not comment on each other’s films nor try to alter them in any way. It’s a matter of taste as to which film is the best. Kiarostami claims, “If you ask Ermanno which is the best film, he’d say it was his. Ask Ken the same question and he would say it was his, and ask me and I will tell you it is mine.” Loach adds, “That’s true.” It’s also true that Tickets is a flawed film, but one that offers a fascinating insight into the minds of three of the world’s greatest auteurs. Tickets, on selected release 02 December 05.
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comment by fredoom
Jan 12, 2006
maybe in some occasion,but not all i think
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