Directed by Karim Aïnouz When Invisible Life leans into the melodrama it becomes otherworldly. The story of two sisters separated sometime around age 18 is inherently melodramatic, based solely on the justification for their separation, but it's not until the second half that the film sheds any semblance of realism and becomes almost magical, albeit in a … Continue reading Invisible Life (2019)
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Directed by Michael Haneke Like The Seventh Continent, this is a film that builds to a particularly violent tragedy, attempting to show the steps leading to that fateful conclusion without ever explaining why. Both films try to objectively depict the people who head down such a path, but the lack of any apparent motivation suggests that … Continue reading 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
