The film’s disarming romcom sensibilities are an unlikely yet fitting vehicle for timely ruminations on AI.
Maria Schrader has a solution for the rom-com’s revitalization: embrace its constructs.
Angela Schanelec’s film configures itself most potently in hindsight as a punch to the gut.
These films depict in distinctive ways the process of coping with and even accepting the dead’s presence in our lives.
The Dreamed Path elevates the humdrum minutia of existence to the same plane as the ostensibly life-altering.
At most festivals, such curious objects as The Ornithologist or The Human Surge would likely remain the exception rather than the rule, but then Locarno isn’t most festivals.