| Brief Description: | "A winning combination of sexual frankness and visual wit," wrote J.
Hoberman in The Village Voice; "Funny, violent, sexualIt makes you
reconsider what you and everyone else is doing in life and in
art,"said Amy Taubin in Soho Weekly News. Set in contemporary Vienna,
Valie Export's controversial feature has been called a feminist
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Anna (Susanne Widl), a Viennese
photographer, discovers that extra-terrestrial beings are colonizing
the minds of her fellow citizens by raising the human aggression
quotient. The outer world immediately becomes disjointed, but the
inner world does too, as Anna and her love (Peter Weibel) try to hang
onto their deteriorating relationship. A unique and totally original
work by Austria's foremost filmmaker, Invisible Adversaries is at once
philosophical and funny, psychologically revealing and sexually
frank--"a witty and visually brilliant essay on gender and experience,
culture and environment" (National Film Theatre, London). German with
English subtitles. |
