2004 deadpan comedy/ social study, from Rebella and Stoll
uses constant repetitions, gets in a good rythms
low key lighting, not lighting faces, creates grimy atmosphere
very still camera at start shows stasis; comes to move a little more, but really deadpan non movement
framings of characters at start show them cramped in the frame
one part of the excellent perfromaces all around
problem is that it is generally conservative direction, not much visually
the plot is also rather cursory
comes to be a study of repression, of the ridiculous inability of release
but is too simply directed, lacking any formal interest or newness
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