Tag: Unnerving
‘Passages’ Is an Unnerving, Electric Romantic Drama
The protagonist of Passages, an incisive new romantic drama from the director Ira Sachs, is a man obsessed with perfecting others’ movements, even as he struggles to control his own. The story opens on a Paris film set, where a director named Tomas (played by Franz Rogowski) critiques an actor’s stiff entrance into a party scene. “This is just a transition moment, but we are turning it into a huge drama moment, because you’re not able to make some
Anne Imhof’s Unnerving Hall of Mirrors
While in Italy last year to install her multimedia work “Sex” (2021) at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, the German artist Anne Imhof came across an abandoned seven-floor office complex, built in the 1970s, in the Parella neighborhood of Turin. She was captivated by the fat bubble letters of the graffiti that decorated its smoked glass walls, as well as the tags etched into its filthy surface. Over the past decade, Imhof has made a name for