Glasgow-based artist Stephen Sutcliffe's film Despair (2009) is inspired by and titled after the 1934 Vladimir Nabokov novel, a story of mistaken physical resemblance, murder and identity theft. Nabokov's themes of power and delusion, doubling and gameplay are anchored in Sutcliffe's collage through a prismatic treatment of visual material and sound. Sutcliffe quotes a parade of society portraits, photocopied handouts from a lecture series entitled 'Theories of Montage,' and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 adaptation of the novel in a dense sequence punctuated by baroque music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully for the seventeenth century French king, Louis XIV.
Despair has generally received very positive reviews.
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Despair was released in 2009 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 17 reviews, giving Despair (2009) an average rating of 75%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 68%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 63%.
With a score of 75%, Despair is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Up in the Air, Grey Gardens and Crazy Heart.
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