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Signs and Wonders (2001)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitris Katalifos
Reviews
Abtruse, delicately constructed and thoughtful... an arty Euro-flick with an almost entirely emotional mystery and pay-off.
Feels like a film that could have been shot by Nicolas Roeg.
Nossiter deserves kudos for being willing to tell stories about characters that aren’t twentysomething hard bodies, but rather mature adults.
There's a potentially good film struggling to get out of an overly self-conscious director's grip here.
Signs takes us into Alec's confused head, and, although it can be disturbing there, it's never dull.
Until it devolves into what seems like a quasi-surreal Fatal Attraction ... offers a stark, spooky portrait of family fracture and loss.
Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
For all its ambition and richness of style, Signs & Wonders never shows us what's inside Alec.
I hate to drag out that word again, but it's seriously needed here: pretentious.

