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Signs and Wonders (2001)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:16
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.9/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: In Jonathan Nossiter's SIGNS AND WONDERS, a happily married couple begin to grow apart after 17 years of marriage. A middle-aged French woman, Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling), is betrayed by her... In Jonathan Nossiter's SIGNS AND WONDERS, a happily married couple begin to grow apart after 17 years of marriage. A middle-aged French woman, Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling), is betrayed by her American husband, Alec (Stellan Skarsgard) while they are living abroad in Athens with their two children. In turn, Marjorie begins an affair with an anti-government journalist. As the family is turned upside down, Nossiter's swirling colors and chaotic camerawork provide a visual interpretation of the film's emotionally complex plot. [More]
Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitris Katalifos
Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitris Katalifos
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Screenwriter: James Lasdun, Jonathan Nossiter
Studio: Strand Releasing
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Abtruse, delicately constructed and thoughtful... an arty Euro-flick with an almost entirely emotional mystery and pay-off.
Signs takes us into Alec's confused head, and, although it can be disturbing there, it's never dull.
Nossiter's claustrophobic digital video camerawork and an intelligent script he co-wrote with James Lasdun elevate the proceedings above standard psychodrama.
Signs & Wonders is that true rarity, a forceful film of a unique and original vision.
Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
Though the action is superficially mundane, Jonathan Nossiter's second film, shot on digital video, is suffused with menace.
Despite its technical focus, Signs & Wonders is a rewarding experience if watched through the end.
Until it devolves into what seems like a quasi-surreal Fatal Attraction ... offers a stark, spooky portrait of family fracture and loss.
There's a potentially good film struggling to get out of an overly self-conscious director's grip here.
For all its ambition and richness of style, Signs & Wonders never shows us what's inside Alec.
Signs and Wonders fails because Mr. Nossiter doesn't bother to define the women as characters; he seems as deluded as Alec.
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