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Imprisoned by the Past: Narrative Mastery in Bota
By Brandon Konecny.
In his foreword to William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! (1936), John Jeremiah Sullivan points out that “a fundamental law of storytelling is: withhold information.” By this he means that instead of front-loading a story with character information—a charge of which a substantial amount of today’s screenwriters are guilty—a writer should allow readers to learn about characters in the same way they learn about people in their actual lives: with time. In this sense, Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci’s feature-length debut Bota (2014) is a law-abiding film, and an upstanding one at that. It has an airy, almost dreamlike pace, but not in the sense that it meanders around its central plot or overly indulges in poetic digressions indicative of art house gimmickry. Rather, it lets the audience incrementally piece together the details of these characters’ relationships and troubles through close observation. And this investigative journey is worth the work, for the film rewards such attention with an engrossing story that’s sure to enlarge viewers’ conception of this increasingly fragmented world.
The film’s action takes place primarily in a small café called Bota (meaning “the world” in Albanian). In
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Luli Bitri
Albanian actress (born 1976)
Luljeta "Luli" Bitri (born 27 March 1976[1]) is an Albanian actress, director, screenwriter, producer and voice actress, best known for providing numerous voices in animated films like The Princess and the Frog, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Thumbelina, Balto II: Wolf Quest, Shrek 2 and Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.
Early life
[edit]Luli Bitri was born in Lushnjë, Albania and grew up in Tirana. She began to study medicine, but her passion for art made her to abandon medicine after the first year. Luli Bitri studied Drama in Fine Arts Academy in Tirana, Albania, gaining a Diploma in Professional Acting in 2004. Bitri starred in many short and feature films and theatre plays whilst a student there. She began her international career with the 2007 film Father and Godfather,[2] directed by Dhimitër Anagnosti, the 2009 film Alive! directed by Artan Minarolli, in 2011 film Amnesty, directed by Bujar Alimani.[3] With the last two films she entered in the List of Albanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009 and 2011. In 2018 she starred in the film Holy Boom, directed by Maria Lafi.[4]
Career
[edit]Bitri came to international prominence for
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