Technology plays a major role in her art, however it never takes precedence over
the desired aesthetic effect — her computer is the equivalent of oil paint, palette, and brushes.
Not exact matches
That Anne's mental and physical degradation unfurls with the severity of serious horror was perhaps a sly
aesthetic decision, but it also feels intensely, in fact almost perversely, overdetermined; one can never shake the feeling that by magnifying death's ugliest qualities from a «measured» emotional remove, Amour is simply following the path of least resistance to achieving its
desired visceral
effect.
But in the context of the film, what's of course a striking and great - looking
aesthetic isn't grounded in anything more than a
desire to rustle up some novel
effects, and that emotional paucity shows.