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Juan Palacios on ‘As the Tide Comes In,’ a Metaphor of Where We Are as Human Beings
“It is a metaphor for where we are as human beings and the challenges that we’re facing with climate change,” says Palacios about his observational pic, sparkled with humorous touches, such as in the main character’ introductory scene, where we see him trying to enter TV2 Denmark’s reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
Variety
The mudflats in their countless shades of brown and grey; the water in which endless skies are reflected; the birds which also provide the soundtrack together with the ever-blowing wind.
Gregers is a wonderful, tragic protagonist whose history is told in a subtle and highly distinctive way. In the car he listens to the radio programme Farmer Seeks Love, for which he has signed up. He gets a call about his possible participation, asking what he has to offer women. Gregers gets no further than a stammering: “um … nature…”
Business Doc Europe
Thrusts the viewer directly into this isolated community
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
Screen Daily
Fire danske dokumentarfilm udtaget til IDFA
IDFA 2023. Dansk dokumentarfilm er flot repræsenteret på verdens største dokumentarfestival. ’Før Stormen’, instrueret af Juan Palacios og ko-instrueret af Sofie Husum Johannesen, får verdenspremiere i hovedkonkurrencen.