Spanish director José Luis Geurin inflicts his audience with this laboured, tedious and pretentious exploration of voyeurism and the allure of images - both cinematic and actual. The heavily deconstructed narrative follows an arrestingly angular young man as he attempts to track down a former lover on the streets of Strasbourg. Despite the chiseled features and eurotrash pose, both the searcher and the film prove surprisingly irritating considering their brief screen time - an excruciating 84 minutes. The approving reviews from the artier side of the popular press are mystifying.
Antonioni does this so so so much better.
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