Avant garde and perhaps a touch of surrealism blend together in a kind of experimental film that is going to thrill some people and send others to the exits.
The film follows a woman who returns to her family's mansion after the first world war. She is going to sell it. However the staff has other ideas. Things get even more complicated with slimy people, a secret society and demonic forces wander through the proceedings as the woman ends up being asked to make a film....
Director Signe Birkova has made a challenging work of cinematic art... or maybe it's just a heady mediation on various ideas that is supposed to get us thinking. Honestly I don't know since the film keeps moving at all times and periodically making an unexpected left turn down a road or through a door we never saw coming. One would think we would end up home again but we keep ending up further and further away.
I honestly don't know if it amounts to anything, but it is intriguing. There is a lot to chew on here from war, to class to cinema and lord knows what else. I found I stopped taking notes at some point because to do so had me miss something that just happened. This is not a film look away from since everything changes moment to moment.
Its also a film hard to discuss since unless you've gone through it once discussing plot points or thematic elements are going to mean little.
I like it but I need to see it again to know what that actually means.
Recommended for the adventurous.
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