That weakness is not an issue with the film itself, but
rather audience expectations.
Not exact matches
I spent a lot of my review (in all versions of it) addressing
audience expectations of the film
rather than reviewing the film itself, at least not as directly as perhaps I would normally.
However, there's a curious lack of exhilaration to them that makes them feel like they're perfunctorily checking off boxes of
audience expectation rather than in trying to tell a good story.
This unconventional thinking might come from the fact that the owner was a collector before a gallerist, and seems to make decisions based on personal interests and impulses
rather than an
audience or client's
expectations.
Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the
expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but
rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.
Rather than AIDS patients, the new
audience for this pitch was the older, sicker person with a measurably short mortality
expectation.