Enigmatic - you don't know what's a dream/flashback and what's a reality, you don't know what order the scenes should be in and what's in the past or anything else. Relationships between characters is unclear.
Repetition - Scenes and dialogue/voiceovers repeated several times throughout the film so you don't know when the real event took place.
Sound & Video work against each other (e.g. slow, mysterious pans of hallways in concert with manic organ music)
Sound and video not always correlating - sound continues as video freezes and then resumes.
Influences - the Surrealist Art Movement - moving Surrealism from art to moving image.
The screenplay was written by alan Robbe-Grillet who was a leading figure in the 'Nouveau Roman' movement in french literature. This was an extremely experimental movement focussing on disregard of novel conventions like plot, narrative and characters. This is a very clear influence in the screenplay.
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Did you like it? You seem to have a taste for the surreal. Anything you picked up on that you would like to explore in your own work this year?
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