A couple of the year's finest dramas used dazzling formal tricks to reveal
the private emotional spaces of distressed relatives.
Not exact matches
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Over the course of the three acts, the film's context evolves from social satire (set in a public
space) to
emotional intimacy (confined to the
private space of a single room and a single bed) to domestic drama (set in the awkward
private - public
space of a family apartment).
With appreciable sensitivity and intellectual curiosity, the director Joshua Marston turns public and
private spaces — a sanctuary where a congregation sits angrily divided, an office where a pastor collapses in anguished prayer — into zones of spiritual and
emotional confusion.
Intertwining history with reality, nations with cultures, collective memories with
private memories, the rich imagery in his work could not survive in a vacuum - of abstract
space, but is able to reconstruct and renew itself within the
emotional and imaginative construct of
private memories.
The man is always unresponsive, and subsequently each of the characters retreat to a
private space where an array of
emotional breakdowns ensue.