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?