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Jul 08, 2004 12:00 a.m. - Yahoo! News - Entertainment - Movies
Variety - Appearing to be around 30, protag is slow to rise in the morning as she prepares a real-time breakfast. Sequence sets tempo for remainder of "action," as she brushes her teeth, hangs her laundry, waits for a bus and walks in the country before throwing herself into the sea. Unlike Chantal Akerman's similarly-conceived landmark 1976 work "Jeanne Dielman," proceedings prompt more apathy than tension. Writer-director Salomon Shang succeeds in illuminating the wretched living conditions along her route, though auds will need the press kit to learn the woman is depressed over a mysterious separation from her son (later, a child's photo is superimposed over her floating body). Tech credits are capable, with the mournful, apprehensive score a plus.
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