Lynn Sachs' latest film is an interesting look at how all our interactions connect to each other. Nominally the film is a look at the thousands of business cards collected over a lifetime. Who are all the people and businesses that they represent? Sachs goes back and investigates them while all taking a look at forensics.
This is a typical Sach's examination of a subject that isn't quite about what we think going in and instead ends up being about something else, or not. Sachs makes films that you have to wrestle and so they are films you remember long after other films have faded.
More than some other of Sachs films this is a film you need to see before we can discuss it. I say that because the seeming fragmentary nature of the various narratives only really begin to form a single thread the closer you get to the end. The need to stay with a Sachs film to the end to fully understand what is is what makes me like her films so much. You have to go see the film for the initial ride and then rewatch the film seeing all of the bits you missed along the way. At the same time, it also makes the films tough to write on since what I want to write on may not seem interesting until you see the film.
Sachs' film is one you will want to see multiple times. It's a film about connections and it requires you to make connections, hence the need to see it a second time. There is much food for thought here that weeks on I am still pondering how we all connect.
You will want to see this film. Trust me, just see it.
Recommended.
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