{"id":2271139,"date":"2026-02-07T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271139"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:05:14","slug":"variations-on-a-theme-review-a-woman-stares-at-goats-and-looks-back-on-a-life-in-lovely-lyrical-rotterdam-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/variations-on-a-theme-review-a-woman-stares-at-goats-and-looks-back-on-a-life-in-lovely-lyrical-rotterdam-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Variations on a Theme\u2019 Review: A Woman Stares at Goats \u2014 and Looks Back on a Life \u2014 in Lovely, Lyrical Rotterdam Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">On a faintly misty morning in South Africa\u2019s Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2448967\/\">Hettie<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17966495\/\">Hettie Farmer<\/a>) watches her flock as they hobble and nibble along the rough, khaki-colored landscape, and wonders for the first time if they wonder about her. Is she a mother to them, or an omnipotent ruler? She\u2019s not inclined toward sentimentality or anthropomorphism, and she\u2019s had enough children of her own in a long, hard-up life. But poetry colors pragmatism in the narration that runs throughout \u201cVariations on a Theme.\u201d Liltingly read in a characterful Afrikaans vernacular by co-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15102295\/\">Jason Jacobs<\/a>, it dips in and out of various characters\u2019 inner dialogues in the close rural neighborhood of Kharkams, seeing the philosophical substance in unassuming lives.<\/p>\n<p>A deserving winner of the top prize in the Tiger Competition at this year\u2019s Rotterdam festival, \u201cVariations on a Theme\u201d is itself a deceptively modest affair, running&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a faintly misty morning in South Africa\u2019s Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd Hettie (Hettie Farmer) watches her flock as they hobble and nibble along the rough, khaki-colored landscape, and wonders for the first time if they wonder about her. Is she a mother to them, or an omnipotent ruler? 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