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- 2022
- Dark Star Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 2022
- Dark Star Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A mysterious home invasion triggers off a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.
Directed By: Ronny Trocker
Written By: Ronny Trocker
- 2022
- Dark Star Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 2022
- Dark Star Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Human Factors
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Summary A mysterious home invasion triggers off a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.
Directed By: Ronny Trocker
Written By: Ronny Trocker
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
40% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Trocker is deft at creating situations that go right up to the edge of blatant symbolism or metaphor, bit resist the urge to pitch themselves over the brink and become blatant and simplistic.
This deviously constructed puzzle film plays cat and mouse (or to be exact, pet rat) with the viewer, yields subtly disconcerting insights into the fault lines of bourgeois life, and features terrific lead performances from Sabine Timoteo and Mark Waschke.
A bit too somber and detached for its own good, Human Factors nevertheless marks another strong entry from a filmmaker who – after several shorts, a documentary, and one other feature – is just getting started.
A challenging and very well considered inspection of familial disintegration, featuring strong performances, Human Factors is a solid entry in the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
While Trocker attempts to connect the form to the content of the film, he gets lost in his formalist conceits, never creating fully realized characters to hold the weight of his structural choices.
The tone is too rigidly intellectual for the movie to succeed as a tense thriller. But the actors are up to the challenge of not so much sharing scenes as coexisting within them, particularly Timoteo as the embittered wife who roils like a teakettle that has been welded shut.
Trocker’s second feature (following 2016’s “The Eremites”) never quite manages to make good on its gamesmanship and only allows itself to have any fun once it’s sure that nobody else is.
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Fünf Seen Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
