Portable Life

When I came to this 12-year-old film it had 75 ratings and no review. It cost 700K euros and grossed 3K, so looks like no-one watched it but just in case you do happen across it...

The first five minutes are fine. Ever-reliable Rutger Hauer picks up a young woman hitcher. When he won't let her smoke in his car, she brattily gets out again. That's the end of the good stuff. Hauer is gone to be followed by a series of short and random 'scenes' with little dialogue and no connecting plot. It's impossible to tell if the acting is any good since there's no way of knowing what is happening, nor what emotion is supposed to be portrayed.

This thinks it's arthouse, and the director no doubt thinks she's making important statements amid the chaos. It's her first movie and she hasn't understood that, to keep an audience interested, you need established characters moving in a discernible direction. (I managed 30 minutes more of total boredom.) Since then she's made one documentary and I doubt anyone will be hiring her for features. I'd advise avoiding this as incompetent and unwatchable rubbish but it's so obscurely uncommunicative that I can't even be sure of that.