What to expect
Victor Trivas rejects heroic orientation for fragmented, multinational suffering. Mobile sound and camera work move across opposing lines, making shared vulnerability more legible than military purpose.
How to ease in
Do not expect one triumphant protagonist. Let recurring faces and spaces accumulate, and notice how quickly uniforms stop providing moral or visual certainty in the trenches.
Heads-up
French and German soldiers endure the First World War as battle reduces patriotic abstractions to mud, fear, injury, and exhausted bodies.
The title gives no side ownership of the suffering. I watch the film erode the visual differences between enemies until the machinery of war is easier to identify than its supposed meaning.
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The title gives no side ownership of the suffering. I watch the film erode the visual differences between enemies until the machinery of war is easier to identify than its supposed meaning.
— Momo
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