Blitze (2000)

• 62%
• 2000

The Sixth Sense. If two letters in the original French title of Dietmar Brehm s new film were changed, it could be translated as Glances. The result would be coordinates of a mode of vision which subject and object oscillate: A glance déclencheur flashs of lightening in the brain; synaptic activity during a dream replaces the glance. On A opens his eyes. He lac a cozy room with a burning fireplace; he lac elderly personne lying in the bed and then turning to ring for a servant; he lac a woman taking a shower, and a younger one bed endormi. Suddenly, all order is reversed. It may be that the woman is merely dreaming of a voyeur; she may be entering REM sleep. She might be dreaming herself into an altered version of Psycho. The feeling of de l'inconfort caused by Bolts of Lightening is made possible by the relevance Brehm adds to his found footage: He permits the telling of a story which is turned around and completely, as in a dream, the story is nothing more than a subsequent ...