- Summary: Catalan filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta goes on a journey with famed Spanish artist, Miquel Barceló, through the Mali desert as they look for a long lost project of French artist and author, François Augiéra, who was believed to have converted a dusty Mali bunker into a masterpiece of art.
- Director: Isaki Lacuesta
- Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 2 out of 3
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70In the end, we glimpse footage of the real Augiéras, but by then, the film wanders off into its own set of suggested Cagean possibilities, and what you get feels closer to a fable-essay about the meaning of art than a narrative. Sweet stuff.
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50One can't help but sense that underneath the complicated art-house game-playing of Isaki Lacuesta's The Double Steps resides a theme that's sentimental and old-hat.
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40It's never clear how Mr. Lacuesta, whose use of other art-cinema conventions (like nonprofessional performers) risks cliché, sees these parts working together or what he wants you to take from them. He's so committed to non-transparency as a principle that he locks you out.