Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The Slow Business of Going (2000, Athina Rachel Tsangari)

Petra Going (the character "translates" her name as Rolling Stone) is working for Global Nomads. They travel around and collect impressions that later are uploaded to a database. Petra Going meets on her frequent travels different types, a slapstick, k man, a tango man, a hypothermiac, a gunman. They talk, they interact and there is in my view no point to all this.
This film is as if someone took a manual of art house film making, tore it into pieces and followed the recipes in a random order. The result is a hotchpotch of different styles and manners which is almost impossible to watch.
Few people came to the screeing I attended, almost half of them left the hall before the end of the film. This might indicate that this film is mainly for hardcore indie film lovers.
I don't mind seemingly pointless films. Holy Motors is a film with a similar departure, but without the amateurish acting and cinematography.
2/10

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