Following a failed suicide attempt, a wearied professor is drawn into the lives of a young couple who want to help him overcome the pain of a love long lost.
The uncomplicated storyline at hand becomes the pith of an experimental film so wayward and prepensely dissociative in its presentation that it challenges any sort of customary critical assay. Characters stand nearly motionless while delivering staggered, fragmentary dialog(often simultaneously) in a deliberately vacant manner stripped of inflection and expression. A number of twee musical interludes are realized with a similarly detached flatness.The sets are mostly comprised of colorless backdrops and two-dimensional foreground standees, hand painted in defiance of representational depth, scale, and symmetry.
Inasmuch as DOOMED LOVE is admirably unexampled, it's likely to be an uphill climb for any but the most ardent habitué of challenging art cinema. I did initially find it somewhat interesting in concept/composition, but it wasn't long before boredom took a seat beside me. 5/10
The uncomplicated storyline at hand becomes the pith of an experimental film so wayward and prepensely dissociative in its presentation that it challenges any sort of customary critical assay. Characters stand nearly motionless while delivering staggered, fragmentary dialog(often simultaneously) in a deliberately vacant manner stripped of inflection and expression. A number of twee musical interludes are realized with a similarly detached flatness.The sets are mostly comprised of colorless backdrops and two-dimensional foreground standees, hand painted in defiance of representational depth, scale, and symmetry.
Inasmuch as DOOMED LOVE is admirably unexampled, it's likely to be an uphill climb for any but the most ardent habitué of challenging art cinema. I did initially find it somewhat interesting in concept/composition, but it wasn't long before boredom took a seat beside me. 5/10