Review of Nowhere (2002) by Zane U — 26 Feb 2010
My first foray into New Queer Cinema, and it was a doozy. NOWHERE is tragic in plot and beautiful in aesthetics, and the weight of the situations grow slowly so that what starts out as a typical day becomes something much more urgent and bewildering.
The bizarre elements, featuring alien abductions and murder-by-soupcan, are novel and unique and strange, creating a discomfort that has an ambiguous effect on an ideologically heterosexual audience: at once alienating because of its strangeness, yet inviting by its existence as a reprieve from the sexual politics of the characters.
Everything in NOWHERE is a mishmash. Identities, styles, characters, and it makes for a jarring but entertaining film.
This review of Nowhere (2002) was written by Zane U on 26 Feb 2010.
Nowhere has generally received positive reviews.
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