One of the most obscure works of famous documentary maker Frans Bromet meticulously captures the zeitgeist of 1980, draws a conclusion that may be completely off or spot-on, and leaves the viewer in complete uncertainty about what he just watched. Is it a documentary? Is it all scripted? Who will ever know?
In 1980, divorce was the talk of the town. All around you, people started to divorce, and the maker of the movie claims that he fears it will happen to his own marriage as well.
In order to prevent this, he must know why women would want to divorce, so he places an ad and picks one out of a bunch of divorced women, in order to do in-depth interviews with her and find out.
From there on, everything goes wrong. Or does it? Is the lady in the movie as evil as Bromet starts to think, or is it all a pose? Is Bromet actually such a clumsy filmmaker who can't get through to his subject (he normally isn't) or is his behaviour a statement on the faults of man in the war of the sexes?
And what's with that basement with all those labeled doors? If that bit is fiction, are the sessions behind those doors fiction as well, or are those for real?
It looks like we will never know, but it is a movie that gives you a lot to think about. If you ever see it, which I doubt, because it is very hard to find and I don't think it was ever translated.
In 1980, divorce was the talk of the town. All around you, people started to divorce, and the maker of the movie claims that he fears it will happen to his own marriage as well.
In order to prevent this, he must know why women would want to divorce, so he places an ad and picks one out of a bunch of divorced women, in order to do in-depth interviews with her and find out.
From there on, everything goes wrong. Or does it? Is the lady in the movie as evil as Bromet starts to think, or is it all a pose? Is Bromet actually such a clumsy filmmaker who can't get through to his subject (he normally isn't) or is his behaviour a statement on the faults of man in the war of the sexes?
And what's with that basement with all those labeled doors? If that bit is fiction, are the sessions behind those doors fiction as well, or are those for real?
It looks like we will never know, but it is a movie that gives you a lot to think about. If you ever see it, which I doubt, because it is very hard to find and I don't think it was ever translated.