Phantom Love

awesomely fabulous
BY CHRIS FUJIWARA
A woman croupier drifts like a ghost through languidly lit hotel spaces, or submits to jackhammer missionary intercourse while an I'm-not-here expression hardens her turned-away face. A punk Raskolnikov, a Jew in a poor Arab section of Tel Aviv, walks up and down narrow staircases, dodges harassers on the street, and holes up in nearly empty bars where electronic dance music supplies a background to his encounters with prostitutes and a sympathetic detective. These are the people and the spaces of Phantom Love (2007; February 25 @ 7 pm) and Dissolution (2010; February 26 @ 7 pm), two extraordinary feature films by US-Israeli filmmaker Nina Menkes that ArtsEmerson is bringing to the Paramount Center this weekend, with the filmmaker in attendance. The very emptiness of these spaces becomes a source of conflict and even heat, eliciting a response from Menkes's figures or responding in turn to some lack within them.
Phantom Love is a pure psychodrama, in which...

Was this actually supposed to be a movie?
Come on please!!! Just because it's pornographic,almost dialogue free and shot in black and white does not mean that it's art. Pure unadulterated GARBAGE. Had the editor done his job, this film would have ended up being less than 5 minutes long.



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