Directed by David Michôd It's ten years after the "collapse," somewhere in Australia, and a sullen figure, Eric (Guy Pearce), just wants his car back. It's stolen from him by a ragged group of survivors, and Eric will spend the rest of the film tracking them down. To do this he enlists the help of … Continue reading The Rover (2014)
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The Seventh Continent (1989)
Directed by Michael Haneke Everything is fragmented in The Seventh Continent. Like Haneke's Code Unknown (2000), the film is separated with cuts to black between every scene. Some of these scenes are brief vignettes, and in those cuts to black we have no real sense of how much time has passed. We know right off the bat … Continue reading The Seventh Continent (1989)
The Plumber (1979)
Directed by Peter Weir The Plumber depicts two dichotomies, one concerned with class differences and one between man and woman. These separations aren't necessarily related, but the threat posed by an eccentric handyman to a woman mostly confined to her apartment bounces between these two categories. When the plumber, Max (Ivar Kants), holds power over … Continue reading The Plumber (1979)
