New feature from Jerzy Skolimowski.
Shooting action, this film demonstrates that fast cuts aren't entirely necessary. Not that we're saying the takes are long, and they're certainly not still, with tracks and pans (many more pans than in modern Hollywood). But there is at least a rest, a willingness for our lead to not be down our throats the whole time.
The near lack of dialogue is unimportant as the occasionally deadpan lead is assaulted, attacked on all sides by dogs, random passers-by, the snow and nature. In fact, the relation to nature is fascinating; a source of nourshment, unfeeling, where does food come from? This comes to the mother relation on a number of occassions.
Gallo's face is really remarkable, and brings us back to the relation with Claire Denis (i.e. 'Trouble Every Day'). It's 'The Intruder', with the unicorn, the blood, the nature and the mind cut off.
We have a non-human here, a non-man buffetted about, with an unconvincing personal life, who is thrown around a no-place, an Eastern Europe that remains a war zone. This film is a bit slight, but is well made, and in its quiet manner probes nicely.
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