Cote goes for a more naturalistic style in this meandering and ultimately inconsequential attempt at humanising nymphomania, as three hypersexual women reside in a rest home guided by a therapist and her assistant.
A filthy rich, cold-hearted and adulterous man hopes that his melancholia-stricken wife will recover as Cote’s intriguing work asks what it means to search one’s own soul.
Cote makes the monotony of industrial labour poetic and hypnotic in this decent documentary exploration of what ‘work’ and ‘working’ means to the blue-collar fraternity.
A striking and unconventional film it may be, but Cote doesn’t seem to know what he wants to say with this story of two lesbian ex-convicts futilely hoping for a peaceful life in the woods.
Shyamalan meets Tarkovsky in this enigmatic and disquieting drama shot in 16mm about the sociology of Canadian ‘ghost towns’ and the psychological impact on its inhabitants.
Eternality Tan 