Feelings and more The young Canadian director Jeremy Podeswa has long demonstrated the ability to shoot stylish, poetic, authorial films. “Five Senses” only confirmed the level of skill of the Canadian, who, together with the old team (Pascal Bussier, Brendan Fletcher, etc.) decided to tell a story where the slow development of the action is built around a certain circle of people strangely associated with the disappearance of a three-year-old girl.
All the characters are relief, figurative, psychologically accurate and adequate to the environment and profession, but there is a world in their lives, a world deep, inner, intimate, personal, a world of experiences, worries, passions, suffering, and most importantly - love, in search of which we find the characters. They are men and women, adults and teenagers, socialized and antisocial, indigenous and newcomers, who are brewing in the same pot called the city. A city where, as in an anthill, each is only a cog of a huge mechanism. It is no coincidence that so often the camera contrasts the parallelepipedes of buildings looking at the surrounding reality with empty eye sockets of their windows, human figures constantly moving, changing, trying to catch up with something elusive, elusive every time, sometimes even unconsciously.
And the faithful helper in this race, in this search, in this hunt, if you will, are those five senses declared in the title - touch, smell, sight, hearing, taste - so closely intertwined in the life of each person that they have long ceased to be something independent and meaningful. Only the loss of one of these senses entails death, both spiritual and physical, for this loss is the loss of all senses. No wonder one of the characters is looking for the smell, the smell of love, yes, exactly love, the sixth sense to which all five are subordinate!
The search for love became the main goal of the heroes’ lives before meeting them, will remain so after the final credits, when calmed by the good news about the girl, the characters are left by the audience for their further attempts to search for love.
Good luck to them in this eternal endeavor. And thank you very much for the real pleasure of the wonderful spectacle unfolded by Padesva on the screen. It seems that in 20 years we will see these heroes, as has already done another Canadian Denis Arcan.
Lovers of exquisite spectacles.
