D and H are an artistic couple, who's lives are shaped by their architectural house. They ponder, work in an experimental manner, have sex, spurn others, luxuriate in empty real time. Creative, non-actors Liam Gillick and Viv Albertine give brave, unaffected performances. Both, in unison, dowdy and erotic, analytical and mundane, we feel these people have been captured unaware. This is Joanna Hogg's best film so far, it's disarming, mysterious yet often amusing, she never takes obvious turns in plot and avoids yielding to conventional characterisation, shot with contained flair.
Friday, 25 April 2014
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D and H are an artistic couple, who's lives are shaped by their architectural house. They ponder, work in an experimental manner, have sex, spurn others, luxuriate in empty real time. Creative, non-actors Liam Gillick and Viv Albertine give brave, unaffected performances. Both, in unison, dowdy and erotic, analytical and mundane, we feel these people have been captured unaware. This is Joanna Hogg's best film so far, it's disarming, mysterious yet often amusing, she never takes obvious turns in plot and avoids yielding to conventional characterisation, shot with contained flair.
