I hate to drag out that word again, but it's seriously needed here: pretentious.
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07/06/01
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... [More]
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Reviews for Signs and Wonders
Rampling, to her credit, helps hold the nuthouse together.
08/15/01
Top CriticA textbook example of a pretentious art film.
07/05/01
Begins to wear thin after an hour.
04/04/01
As a drama about the ravages of mental illness, the movie works.
06/15/01
Top CriticDespite its technical focus, Signs & Wonders is a rewarding experience if watched through the end.
02/12/01
For all its ambition and richness of style, Signs & Wonders never shows us what's inside Alec.
07/06/01
Top CriticSigns takes us into Alec's confused head, and, although it can be disturbing there, it's never dull.
08/09/01
Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
07/30/01
Top CriticNossiter's claustrophobic digital video camerawork and an intelligent script he co-wrote with James Lasdun elevate the proceedings above standard psychodrama.
04/13/01
Top CriticYou're beginning to understand why Unger seems to be in such a daze: she's read the script.
06/15/01
Though the action is superficially mundane, Jonathan Nossiter's second film, shot on digital video, is suffused with menace.
01/01/00
Signs and Wonders fails because Mr. Nossiter doesn't bother to define the women as characters; he seems as deluded as Alec.
04/16/01
Top CriticThere's a potentially good film struggling to get out of an overly self-conscious director's grip here.
08/10/01
Until it devolves into what seems like a quasi-surreal Fatal Attraction ... offers a stark, spooky portrait of family fracture and loss.
08/02/01
Top CriticFeels like a film that could have been shot by Nicolas Roeg.
03/04/02
Abtruse, delicately constructed and thoughtful... an arty Euro-flick with an almost entirely emotional mystery and pay-off.
09/04/02
Signs & Wonders is that true rarity, a forceful film of a unique and original vision.
04/09/01
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04/13/01
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