WISTFUL WILDERNESS (Digna Sinke, Netherlands). Some subtitles. 88 minutes.
May 6, 6:45 pm, ROM May 8, 2 pm, Isabel Bader. Rating: NNNN
Digna Sinke’s placid geographical study offers an intriguing, moving meditation on transience.
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Sinke brought her camera to the small Danish island of Tiengemeten over the span of 14 years, recording a government project to reclaim the local farms and turn the land back into a natural wilderness. The footage is amplified by readings from her journal, crisply charting the upheavals in her own life – aging parents, partner’s illness. By the end of the movie, it’s not just the landscape that’s unrecognizable.
