gridoon2024 Review of From the Life of the Marionettes

From the Life of the Marionettes (1980 TV Movie)

Static, talky, clinical, bizarre, explicit, challenging - and very well acted

[6/10 · 10 November 2019]

Thematically "From The Lives Of The Marionettes" is not far away from American horror films of the period, but stylistically it is quite different. I liked the back-and-forth-in-time narrative structure, but for all the insights we get into the psyche of the central character, when the movie is over we still don't really know why he did what he did. The best part is the fetishistic dream sequence; the worst are the two consecutive endless rants of the character named Tim. **1/2 out of 4.