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‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’ Review: Twin Brothers Love, Hate and Live Off the Land in an Enchanting Czech Original
Czech director Miro Remo's funny, earthily poetic hybrid documentary 'Better Go Mad in the Wild' is a Karlovy Vary discovery with travel potential.
A Slovak docmaker with a clear affinity for the willful eccentrics of his home terrain, Remo competed at Karlovy Vary with his last feature “At Full Throttle,” a little-traveled but enjoyable tale of a middle-aged miner harboring unlikely ambitions of racecar driving, that doubled as a wider snapshot of local social discontent. Neither strictly observational nor essayistic in its approach, the film instead marries scenes of the twins’ day-to-day existence to poetic interludes of his own invention, alongside existential narration adapted from a book of the same title by Czech journalist and author Aleš Palán — who shares a screenplay credit with the director. As shot by Remo and co-DP Dušan Husár in rich, lucent tableaux of growth and death across shifting seasons — and scored by Adam Mate in roaring orchestral surges that pleasingly subvert dainty pastoral cliché — it’s also an ode to a patch of land that will long outlive their professed ownership.
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