{"id":9290,"date":"2014-01-23T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?p=24995"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:29","slug":"iffr-madness-mauro-stel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2014\/01\/23\/iffr-madness-mauro-stel\/","title":{"rendered":"IFFR madness: Mauro Stel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam is back in town. Erasmus Magazine asks some movie worshippers about their passion for film and the must-sees at the festival. Today: Mauro Stel, 1st year of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Erasmus University College (ECU).<\/p>\n

Mauro Stel, first year student at the ECU, is a big fan of horror movies. \u201cMovies where you have to think of who committed the murder, where there often is a really dark atmosphere.\u201d There he is pursuing his bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

In his hometown in the Netherlands he annually helps out at a festival, which holds outdoor movie screenings during summertime. He states this commitment as a main reason for his interest in film.<\/p>\n

In Mauro\u2019s opinion movies always tell a story but it is the visual component of films, which make them so engaging. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are a great means to change the world in a sense, but also to let people think of the situation we are in. Politically and socially. But of course movies are also entertaining.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mauro plans on watching three movies at the IFFR. They sound quite different from another, but let him speak for himself:<\/p>\n

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Mauro<\/i><\/p>\n

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Vergiss mein Ich<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is about a woman who has retrograde amnesia and I can imagine that it can be very hard to live with such a disorder. And that sort of stirred my interest. My grandfather also suffers from amnesia and I am really curious to see how the director incorporated these characteristics of amnesia into the movie.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Nebraska<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually picked this movie because I have been to the United States myself a couple of times. I was struck by the beauty of the American countryside and the typical life on the countryside there. And I hope this movie captures this natural feeling of living in an artificial symbiosis with nature as well as pursuing the American Dream.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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L\u2019amour est une crime parfait<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen reading the festivals booklet I read the caption of this movie and it was a rather odd description, which stirred my interest. That\u2019s a typical horror movie but the abundance of humor makes the movie funny to a certain extent. And I always like it when situations are made less important and things are put into perspective. I hope that it matches the Hitchockian standard.\u201d ET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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