mushrooming ( film )
toomas hussar’s film mushrooming will compete for an academy award in best foreign film category at oscars in 2013. the debut feature premiered at karlovy vary film festival, before also showing in toronto international film festival. the story follows a politician who tries to take a break from work by mushroom picking, only to get lost in the wilderness while a media scandal is brewing .
toomas hussar' s
seenelkäik
( mushrooming), a black comedy about a trip to the woods gone wrong, will be entered for best foreign film. and an animated short by ülo pikkov called
keha mälu
( body memory) will vie for best animated short film .
karlovy vary international film festival 2012, czech republic. competition programme: east of the west
international film festival of india 2012, goa, india. programme: cinema of the world
pikkov' s animation got the nod because it won the best animated film title at the krakow short film festival and it also had a run at the pasadena arthouse cinema playhouse 7 .
the five - member national nominating committee was led by the estonian film foundation' s external affairs director tristan priimägi .
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since regaining independence in 1991, estonia has been confronted with all manner of changes: new currencies, open borders, free markets, a free media. toomas hussar’s mushrooming addresses the impact of the liberated media on estonian politics, with frequently hilarious results .
the academy award for best foreign language film is handed out annually by the u. s. - based academy of motion picture arts…
toomas hussar (b. 1962) studied mathematics at tartu university, theology at the estonian evangelical lutheran church, and acting at the estonian academy of music and theater. he is a writer of stories and scripts, and a director of numerous theater plays and tv series (e. g. the reality show
the jürgensons, ” 2001), for which he won awards. mushrooming is his feature film debut .
after last year’s enjoyable visit to the edinburgh international film festival, my first, i just had to return to this year’s eiff (19 - 30 june) .
toronto — political scandal meets survivalism in toomas hussar' s mushrooming, a satire that isn' t quite as funny or pointed as it seems to intend. odd tonal shifts will have viewers unsure what to make of it, though the pic presents an angle on post - soviet politics that may attract some small amount of interest .
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raivo e. tamm' s aadu, a doughy politician attempting to survive in a strange new media environment, is the film' s most convincing ingredient. wearing a look of perpetual consternation, he gruntingly obeys his handlers' instructions, going so far as to appear on a degrading tv game show wearing tights and bouncing on a giant rubber ball .
so much fun just because human beings are weird, and estonians really know how to pick the mushrooms of human weirdness and serve them to us on a plate made of film. it' s completely deranged yet somehow just doesn' t look like it. the urbandweller' s horror, the thoreau antithesis. it takes a politician to survive that, or at least turn it into a story about overcoming all challenges .
zak' s bad - sport decision to wait in the car while the couple goes hunting pays off when they get lost, or at least it should: though they can reach him on aadu' s cell phone, zak is unable to help them find their way back. soon, the film is slipping in and out of horror - flick mode, identifying too strongly with the panic aadu feels whenever viivi wanders out of sight .
hussar' s scenario is most involving when in the woods, where the situation is threatening despite being a little ridiculous. but the scene back in the city, where aadu' s crew is doing damage control for the endangered legislator, will look hokey to american viewers who' ve had decades to fine - tune their jaded view of political image - management. though hussar ends the film with a nice example of on - the - spot crowd seduction, it' s preceded by such exaggerated manipulation we western viewers can kid ourselves that we' d never fall for such a thing .
two estonian - made movies will be submitted for consideration for the oscars this year .
body memory has a pretty good chance of getting spotted, i think ,
said priimägi on uudised. err. ee .
it could also win the oscar for best animation .
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the estonian political satire from director toomas hussar stars raivo e. tamm as a doughy politician attempting to survive the new media environment .
aadu is more at home on a day trip in the woods, hunting for mushrooms with his wife viivi (elina reinold). on the way there, though, viivi convinces him to give a lift to stranded musician zak (juhan ulfsak), whose scraggly hair and eyeliner fit perfectly with ulfsak' s cartoonish too - cool - for - this affectation. perhaps this is what an estonian rock star really looks like .
the couple' s problem is compounded by a phone call aadu got shortly before entering the woods: a journalist is inquiring about his government - funded pleasure trip to machu picchu, threatening to expose him as a corrupt pol. with that bad press on its way, aadu thinks he can' t afford the embarrassment of calling local rescue services; once he uses up his battery, even that disgraceful escape hatch vanishes .
cast: raivo e. tamm, elina reinold, juhan ulfsak, üllar saaremäe, hendrik toompere jr
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politician aadu and his wife viivi decide to go pick mushrooms; in the forest they meet guitarist zak and all sorts of other mushroom hunters. a tragicomedy with a wisp of thriller anchored to a model story: through the behavior of the individual protagonists, the plot gradually reveals their inability to
survive” in an unknown environment that lays their characters bare .
politician aadu and his wife set out to pick mushrooms on a day when he gets a call from a journalist confronting him with regard to suspected corruption. by coincidence the married couple find themselves in a car with a pompous rock idol named zäk. after discovering that the spot his wife has chosen to pick mushrooms is full of vacationers, aadu decides to find a quieter place. the woods which he ultimately finds, however, are perhaps too deep and inhospitable, and finding a way out may not be that easy... . this satirical tragicomedy with touches of refreshing black humor is estonian director and screenwriter toomas hussar’s feature debut. he takes aim at the often unscrupulous behavior of contemporary politicians and media stars willing to pile up corpses on the way to power and popularity .
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the black comedy with touches of political satire aims at the often unscurpulous behaviour of contemporary politicians and media stars on the way to power and popularity .
politician aadu and his wife set out to pick mushrooms on a day when he gets a call from a journalist confronting him with regard to suspected corruption. by coincidence the married couple find themselves in a car with a pompous rock idol named zäk. after discovering that the spot his wife has chosen to pick mushrooms is full of vacationers, aadu decides to find a quieter place. the woods where he ultimately ends up, however, are perhaps too deep and inhospitable, and finding a way out may not be easy… .
raivo e. tamm, juhan ulfsak, elina reinold, üllar saaremäe, hendrik toompere jnr. , hilje murel
hussar’s satire is less about specific politics than the inanity of contemporary discourse, in which fame, no matter how fleeting, is the only thing that’s valued. (when aadu’s small entourage runs afoul of an angry rural hermit, it isn’t because of what they stand for; it’s because they’re famous .) of course, it doesn’t really matter how that fame is achieved. a farmer who recognizes aadu is as impressed as if he’d just met a nobel prize winner — or maybe brad pitt. as a corollary, hussar takes aim at our culture’s disinterest in — and growing lack of capacity for — thoughtful analysis or intelligent discussion, abandoned in favour of clichéd, sentimental posturing .
as the shaggy dog in this story, aadu is a kind of anxiety - ridden everyman for whom every experience, with the sole exception of nesting in his own house, is fraught with terror. uncomfortable with the past, mortified by the present and terrified of the future, he’s a subversive and funny emblem of a country undergoing tremendous change, and of would - be shut - ins everywhere .
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a demeaning game - show appearance, an ill - advised mushroom - picking outing that goes horribly off the rails, inquiries from a cynical reporter — things just keep getting worse for the middle - aged politician at the centre of estonian director toomas hussar' s satire about a shallow, fame - obsessed post - cold war culture. (tiff )
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mushrooming ( estonian : seenelkäik ) is a 2012 estonian comedy film directed by toomas hussar . the film was selected as the estonian entry for the best foreign language oscar at the 85th academy awards , but it did not make the final shortlist . 
mushrooming (estonian: seenelkäik) is a 2012 estonian comedy film directed by toomas hussar. the film was selected as the estonian entry for the best foreign language oscar at the 85th academy awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
mushrooming (estonian: seenelkäik) is a 2012 estonian comedy film directed by toomas hussar. the film was selected as the estonian entry for the best foreign language oscar at the 85th academy awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.