Despite the opening montage of trenchant Goya etchings portraying, often phantasmagorically, the inhuman nature of war or of human nature at its worst, Polish writer-director Władysław Pasikowski’s Demony wojny według Goi more or less resolves itself into a conventional actioner whose centerpiece consists of the oversized posturing of Bogusław Linda as Major Edward Keller, the […]
Daily Archives: January 29, 2010
A former documentarian, Ulrich Seidl “went fictional” in 2001 with Dog Days (Hundstage), bringing documentary attention and an overwhelming bleakness to his new kind of work. Import/Export, also written by Seidl and Veronika Franz, is not my cup of tea—or, in this case, cup of pee. The film is too mannered for its suicidal disposition. […]
