Review of The Limits of Control (2009) by Carlos G — 12 Nov 2009

· Warning will not contain spoilers, for this film has no plot.

" Are you interested in films by any chance? The best films are like dreams you're never sure you've really had.".

This film is about life and it is life, it's about art and it is art, it's a film and it's about film, it's about the fallacies of speaking in tongues, in codes, the nature of reality, memory and music but mostly it's a film about coffee and cigarettes. We are given so many clues, so many references, self references and repetitions, so many images strange and unique, and so many minutes of minutia highlighted as important that it begins to become overwhelming. It is a film about nothing and a film about so much that we cannot possibly comprehend it all. It is in its way a critique to the notion of meaning.

For those of you who couldn't make heads or tails of that I don't suggest you try the film, for you I'll say it has some absolutely outstanding cinematography and almost has some interesting assassination action towards the finale and leave it at that. However if you caught a glimpse of something interesting in the convolution and unstructured uncertainty then this may well be the film for you.