✅ Tanking in Cannes, it dug too deep into the human condition even for Nouvelle Vague tastes.
✅ Incredibly bleak, existentialist, and Kafkaesque with mysterious machinations of an impenetrable system.
✅ Howe’s a giant, and his experimental shots with Arriflex handhelds pull the rug out from under guesses, beliefs, and certainties alike.
The protagonist fails to make even a single unprompted decision, which probably wasn’t well received either.
Seconds by John Frankenheimer, 1966.
Watched at the Metropol theater on March 27, 2026, in its original language.