|
|
"Invisible Adversaries"
1977
Directed by
Valie Export
"A winning
combination of sexual frankness and visual wit," wrote J. Hoberman in The Village
Voice; "Funny, violent, sexual
It 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. 112 minutes. |
|