Review of The Apparition (2018) by Mauro_Lanari — 07 Oct 2019

(Mauro Lanari).

Simpler than it looks: Giannoli does metacinema by choosing Lindon as his scenic alter ego, who wonders about the extent to which every kind of representation, artistic and otherwise, seizes reality. Pirandello? Rashomon? The Korzybski of the map-territory relation? Logical problem even before being metaphysical or even religious. The French director starts out perky and he too ends running aground in the causal loop: the mystery can only remain mystery and therefore it can only be explained (shown?) as such. I don't know whether this is correct, but a search for Truth based on these assumptions is condemned to failure on principle. Perhaps then it is worth following Wittgenstein's advice: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar-ber muss man schweigen", "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." And must stop filming.