Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Film Lost in Space: Film Comment Selects 2013
Posted by Max Nelson on Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:05 PM
Full disclosure: Max Nelson works as an intern for Film Comment, the magazine which curates this film series at Lincoln Center.
Nights with Theodore’s young heroes end up conferring so much of their passion, curiosity and sensitivity onto the park itself that those jungle-like canopies, fairy-tale grottos, and candlelighted pavilions eventually start to look like the inside of a lover’s head. In films less wily than this one, such instantly evocative background markers might serve as convenient substitutes for actual character psychology; Theodore’s punchline is to make that substitution literal. Once we get to a talking-head interview with an “environmental psychologist” who suggests that the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is capable of physically siphoning away the life-energy of its inhabitants, we’ve forgotten all about Anna and Theodore’s puppy love—the real amour fou here is between a person and a place.
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