Dir.: Andrea Pallaoro; Cast: Tracey Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Joshua Close; USA/Italy 2022, 110 min.
Writer/director Andrea Pallaoro is back in Venice with a Lynchian riddle in the same enigmatic style and eerie atmosphere as his modest but memorable Hannah starring Charlotte Rampling as a refined woman down on her luck. Once again family rejection is the crux of the storyline. Monica wallows in a seething atmosphere of doom and another downcast heroine who has lost her place in the social pecking order, rejected by her mother on spurious grounds, although on reasonable terms with her brother Paul (Close) who talks about the good times they had as children. Buttoned down by its 4:3 format and old fashioned colour system (rather like the 1950s Eastmancolour) this is another melancholy tale you will not forget. AS
VIENNALE 2022 |