Your Name is Justine: Rich in Cinema
Bikas Mishra reviews Your Name is Justine, the Polish film will be telecast on UTV World Movies in India on Saturday at 11:00 PM
Your Name Is Justine (2005)
The strength of Your Name is Justine lies in its simple story that’s told beautifully in a style rich in cinema. You could find the story old that has been told many times, however, this film is so powerful in its portrayal that you breathlessly wait for the inevitable in the hope that fate may change its course.
Your name is Justine is a story of a chirpy teenager Mariola,who falls in love with a young man. Her love meets a deceitful end and she’s cruelly forced into prostitution.
The talented director Franco de Pena’s film is full of metaphors. Quite interestingly he opens the film in an abattoir, that’s busy making plans of exporting ham (read flesh) to the west. The supervisor conducts a test of workers who are ready to cut meat for the west. While two of her friends refuse to take the examination, innocent Mariola, takes the challenge.
This prologue serves as an allegory to the tale of Mariola’s plight, who gets lured by her lover only to be sold off in Cologne.
The flat where Mariola is locked up, the peeling wallpaper, a dark, decaying surrounding makes the entire house an expression of Mariola’s plight. One of the most touching scenes come here when Mariola through a pigeonhole in the walls cries out for help in vain.
Her submission to inescapable destiny is also expressed powerfully. Your heart would stop beating for a moment when she would pick up that splinter glass and when she would cut her curly, silk hair and your will find your eyes getting wet at inner corners.
Even if the film gets little melodramatic at times, it’s a film that will make you realize how cinema turns an ordinary tale into a memorable one.
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