Las Meninas (2008)
January 25, 2008Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Mykola Veresen
Father
Lyubov Timoshevskaya
Mother
Hanna Yarovenko
Daughter
Ilona Arsentieva
Young Daughter
Dmytro Chernyavsky
Son
Ihor Podolchak
Director
Stas Arsentiev
Young Son
Ihor Podolchak
Director
Dean Karr
Director
Dean Karr
Director
Valeriya Ulyanchenko
Young Mother 1
Viktoriya Ulyanchenko
Young Mother 2
Oleksandr Shchetynsky
Composer
Yuriy Yaremchuk
Composer
Serhiy Mykhalchuk
Cinematographer
Tamara Podolchak
Costume Design / Producer
Svitlana Makarenko
Art Direction
Ihor Ihnatenko
Executive Producer
Tetyana Moskal
Costume Design
Ihor Dyurych
Producer
Myroslav Kuvaldin
Sound Director
Liliya Mlynarych
Producer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 2008 Ukrainian film directed by Ihor Podolchak. Its title alludes to the well-known painting by Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas. Ihor Podolchak was the producer, screenwriter, and director of this film. Las Meninas was produced by MF Films (a subdivision of Masoch Fund). It was the first Ukrainian film to participate in the Tiger Awards Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. As of the beginning of 2011, the film has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs. In 2011, it was included in Top 15 Best Ukrainian films of the 20 years' Independence period.
…Podolchak's film, alongside Majewski's and Bartas's work, appears to be a perfect example for a cinematic or post-cinematic "dream of a gesture" (Agamben 1993, 139) transporting the viewer into a visibly subjective and surreal universe of enigmatic pictures….