Continuity

A sticky bourgeois drama in three parts, where each begins with a scene of a middle-aged couple heading to the train station to pick up a son returning from Afghanistan. What initially seems like an emotional family reunion quickly turns out to be an erotic ritual played out by the couple, the dramatic axis of which is hiring a male prostitute who pretends to be their son. The recurring family dinners become increasingly traumatic, hallucinatory and saturated with incestuous insinuations while the mysterious disappearance of the prostitutes turn the film from an Oedipal psychoanalytic work into a horror. Omer Fast’s film was one of the most hotly debated works screened at the latest documenta Kassel.