She writes (and speaks, in voiceover) of the paralysis she feels experiencing war as a series of images on television, a framing device seemingly geared towards explaining Gitai’s own perspectiv...
On the other, Micha Lescot shows up as Einstein in a flimsy wig and a smug expression, puffing a pipe while staring at the camera, as though he has just walked off the set of “Epic Rap Battles o...
Ironically, treating notion of war with such a broad brush — rather than wrestling with real specifics — works only to flatten asymmetrical conflicts, like those which have been seen in th...
” If helplessness in the face of war is the movie’s default point of view, then it seldom struggles against those constraints, resulting in a work that says little with its words and image...