Kritiken (1)
The trouble with the continent of the dreamland washed by the waters of surrealism and imaginative symbolism is that its meaning (signified, if you will) is located on a completely different plane than the materialized symbol itself (significator, if you will): the viewer is therefore forced to try to guess the intention of the author of the work, whom they do not know (and thus rely only on sheer impossibility) or try to insert their own meaning. Yet this is fundamentally hindered precisely by the fact that the meaning of a dream or the unconscious is so personal that the viewer cannot help but feel, despite all the external beauty of the symbols, like a persona non grata in a foreign land, in a land full of visionary symbols. /// Nevertheless, Bokanowski once again triumphs artistically and technically, there is no doubt about that. It then depends on each viewer whether the strings of their imagination or buried emotions will (randomly) be played out or not. However, The Angel manages to resist these shortcomings without losing any of the qualities of the author's previous films.
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