what i-s this film about?


I suspect that this film is a homage to Bergman.

There's a cast of Bergman's stars, chess games, an obsession with Liv Ulman's face, a sense of displacement and existing outside of space and time and an obsession with film and the stage.

The whole film comes across as a highly forman exercise in making a film and referencing film as a medium: there are the highly mannered 'bad' performances from great actors, the degraded film stock, filters are placed on the camera lens during a shot with no attempt to mask it and there are stills from films in all the houses and photographs of Actors and Actresses.


Anyone agree then?

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by - elizabethveldon on Thu Sep 25 2008 15:36:25

I suspect that this film is a homage to Bergman.
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Yes I agree 100% with you Elizabethveldon ...this film IS A HOMMAGE to Bergman. This film is also fantastic and for all the reasons you have noted. I also found the film to be puzzeling, however I think this added to the feelings of displacement and general uneasyness. I think there was also a theme of repetition in the film...that blinking parrot! What do you think?

"Yellowsnake Canyon!? That's full of snakes!"

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perhaps the parrot is hinting towards another layer of meaning around repetition, perhaps the actors job of 'parroting' a script?

All very puzzling.

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