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A remarkable expression of the post-documentary moment that seems to be defining a new major stage in contemporary world cinema…The film skillfully defies any neo-realist appearances by using its extreme restraint of story, sound, and dialogue not to create a contemplative minimalism but rather to sustain a steadily increasing yet ambiguous tension. The Anchorage unfolds a series of pointed yet irresolvable appeals to specific genre expectations—of the horror film, the melodrama, the Bergmanian art film—investing objects and the film’s few characters with a mysterious aura.Read More »
