Pendular

A detail of the dancer' s bare feet on a step represents a woman that lives with her husband in metaphysical dimension, a step away from the reality. Tha dancer searches the contact of the hands and the bare feet with the floor , sometimes with an other partner. Her husband is a sculptor that he is too coherent altough he refuses the coherency. The woman asks to her husband:" Where does the cable lead?". The art should have a direction, a destination that isn' t the answere"Nowhere". The rhytm of the movie is slow, creating a reality of a metaphysical dimension of the life. The "Factory" recalls the Factory of Andy Warhol, that was more productive and economically active. It was closer to a concrete reality.

I made the effort to watch Pendular. The film follows two self-proclaimed artists, who possess little to no real talent, sharing both their lives and a studio. On top of that, they struggle with communication, both professionally and socially. What unfolds is a series of attempts at creating art, interspersed with rather explicit sexual scenes. Due to their poor communication, they realize too late that their art is not well-received. The situation worsens when the man discovers, again belatedly due to miscommunication, that his partner had been pregnant and underwent an abortion, which strains their relationship. That's essentially the plot. While the acting appears natural, it isn't strong enough to carry the film. Overall, it's a rather dull movie.