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Someone is praising the man who kneels behind a glory hole at
a sex club.
Someone is having a near-death experience and flying over the zoological
garden, the disenchanted stage of his childhood.
Someone is shifting his personality after receiving a transplantation of a
female heart. Someone is receiving a last love letter from Robert Falcon
Scott, written just before his death at the South Pole.
Being the result of "Dox: Lab", a cultural development program that aims to
unite filmmakers to work together,
Accidentes Gloriosos by Mauro Andrizzi and Marco Lindeen explores the
phenomenon of the “glorious accident”: It’s an expression for a stroke of
fate, a turning point that makes people transform like a phoenix in the
flames. The film is presented as a collection of short stories based on the
idea of an Argentinian photographer who believes a car crash is the perfect
work of “instant art”.
Accidentes Gloriosos is a
polarizing movie: one part of the audience dives into a one hour long
absorbing dream world, the other part just falls asleep: We are guided by a
female narrator which also connects the nine different characters who reveal
their desires and even their sex drives. The hypnotic narration, set design,
the style of old 50’s melodrama flicks, the many cross-fades and
high-contrast monochrome images are very effective but also strongly
reminiscent of Guy Maddin’s artistic signature, while Andrizzi’s and
Lindeen’s surrealist elements seem clumsy and amateurish. Until the end we
don’t know where the filmmakers want to lead us, we just feel that they are
trying hard.
Nevertheless, Accidentes Gloriosos
elegantly and poetically combines different fates, shows the
disturbing beauty of destruction, relating sexuality to our living will.
06:09:2011 |
di
Marie Elisa SCHEIDT