Political Disasters

Political Disasters
Political Disasters is a remarkably complex and brutally honest portrayal of the political and social ethos of the turn of the millenium United States - a period of confusion, of great ruptures, disappointments and failures, but also a transitional phase marked by the reconstitution of traditional values and beliefs. This oscillation between failure and the desire for reconstitution and self-renewal seems to establish the dynamic of the film and traces the individual characters' paths throughout the film.
Political Disasters will upturn the viewer's expectations in that it is not your typical Hollywood-like mono-narrative disaster movie. It is an experimental weaving of various narratives following the private lives of the members of two interrelated families and their failures to cope with pre-established social expectations, their breakdowns in communication and their own failing fantasies. The film is all the more interesting since it projects these private familial dramas in...





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