“Force of Situation” cannot sustain this crafted mixture of turns and turns. Still, Bear’s spectacle of downtown artists playing spy-on-spy in various parts of Washington is descended from Louis Feilard’s World War I series, in which fantastical crimes take place on the streets of Paris. , East Village writer Craig Golson.
Mysteries multiply and evaporate like puddles after a summer rain. Envoys and bodyguards wander Georgetown in search of a colonial mansion. Mualem, who is always in new clothes, meets Katrina (Jessica Stachberry), a feisty journalist who has an affair with Hans (Tom Wright), a dissolute rich boy who is trying to unload his ancestral home. I want to contact you and I am never far away.
A central figure in the 1980s New York art world, Baer said her film was inspired by the 1981 Casablanca bread riots. The film’s date is due to the appearance of a computer screen with green letters and a seeming cast rather than historical references. Selected from Club 57’s theme party: Major (member of Squat Theater). Steve Buscemi before Hollywood. Musician Evan Lurie. Scenemaker Glenn O’Brien. Performance artist Rockets Redglare. And filmmaker Eric Mitchell cast both Stachbury and Wright in his own Downtown movie. Wearing a hat and speaking a sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own eerie vibe to the film, including the ominous punchline that “choice is a Western concept.”
The New York Times critic Janet Maslin was less sympathetic to the film, but said, “Ms. Bear’s big-budget eagerness to absorb and imitate clichés outweighs the way they are used.” is much more impressive,” he wrote. In fact, appropriating the title used by both W. Somerset Maugham and Simone de Beauvoir, Forces of Situation is more of a work of art than a conventional film, with actual documents filling the screen. It even ends up appearing and is a conceptual piece of cinema. May be early 70’s.
This faux “thriller” has a lasting look, an interesting cast, an entertaining demeanor, and a propulsive score. Its main flaw is the script, which is more timely given the current Writers Guild of America strike.
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Until May 30th at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. moma.org.
