Angela Schanelec's enigmatic version of the Oedipus legend. Full of incomplete moments, unexplained events and characters who appear, disappear and change into something different caught between flesh and symbol in a mystery that defies interpretation. This is a wonderful jigsaw puzzle of a film with half the pieces missing from the director of 'The Dreamed Path'. I left the cinema wondering what the hell I had seen but by the time I got home I realised I had witnessed a masterpiece.
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The Dreamed Path 2016
Angela Schanelec's enigmatic, minimalistic film tells two half-stories set 30 years apart that briefly overlap. The stories are opaque, fluid and difficult to follow. There are gaps in the narrative that require you to make assumptions. It jumps from scene to scene and from one time period to the next with no explanation of what has happened in between. It is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. But there are also themes, images and objects that…
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