Photo: Constantina Voulgaris's Valse Sentimentale
She walks down the street dragging her knuckles against building walls, then deliberately bangs her head on the railing of a bridge. He stands in front of a mirror and slashes his stomach with scissors, then bandages the wound, sits back down to continue working on his art project, and meows at his cat. When these two crazy kids get together in Valse Sentimentale, the sparks fly, and by sparks, I mean half-sentences, halting gestures, uncomfortable glances, odd behavior, and social retardation so pronounced it makes one pine for the sweet tranquility of death. Constantina Voulgaris's directorial debut is, per its press kit, "a love story where nothing happens, where they say nothing, do nothing, and where change…means nothing." Nick Schager
She walks down the street dragging her knuckles against building walls, then deliberately bangs her head on the railing of a bridge. He stands in front of a mirror and slashes his stomach with scissors, then bandages the wound, sits back down to continue working on his art project, and meows at his cat. When these two crazy kids get together in Valse Sentimentale, the sparks fly, and by sparks, I mean half-sentences, halting gestures, uncomfortable glances, odd behavior, and social retardation so pronounced it makes one pine for the sweet tranquility of death. Constantina Voulgaris's directorial debut is, per its press kit, "a love story where nothing happens, where they say nothing, do nothing, and where change…means nothing." Nick Schager
