The master here, the man who provides director Alex Ross Perry with the tools, is Luc Moullet. This is less a question of emulation than foundation (further foundations: as a final half-joke, the film ends with a bibliography that includes, amongst a list of World War II-related research materials, Gravity’s Rainbow), and the cornerstones seem to be Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun (for its approach to a genre) and The Smugglers (for its back-and-forth plot and settings).
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
September 09, 2009