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James Berardinelli

I can think of few things more appropriate to call The Dress than absurd. It's a bizarre comedy with a brand of humor that, despite making fun of normally-serious issues like rape and sexual harassment, can inspire bouts of uncontrolled, politically-incorrect laughter. Most films follow characters. Alex van Warmerdam's The Dress, like Tales of Manhattan and Twenty Bucks, accompanies an object as it changes hands. In this case, it's a dress. From the design of the pattern and the garment's manufacture to its passage from owner-to-owner, The Dress offers us glimpses into the lives of a gallery of characters, all of whom are, in one way or another, losers. [...]

di James Berardinelli, articolo completo (2084 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Reelviews 1997