Press: Dissolution

Dissolution Pull Quotes

An absolutely masterful, sensuous, succulent, repellent as a baby rattlesnake, primally affecting film!"

— Matthew David Wilder

One of the year’s top five films!”

— Barbara Wurm, Sight and Sound

No less than David Lynch, Ms. Menkes is an artist of the unconscious for whom the creative and the spiritual quest are one and the same. A cinematic sorceress of the self!"

— Dennis Lim, The New York Times

Cinematically, the film has traces of Bela Tarr's SATANTANGO entwined with Shakespeare's MACBETH—where themes of morality haunt one's psyche with poetry and striking visuality…Relevant and courageous!"

— Natasha Subramanian, The Huffington Post

Didi Fire’s performance is brilliant…Menkes's unclassifiable cinema, whose fascination lies in the interplay among characters, space, and filmmaker, is truly all her own. Extraordinary and original!"

— Chris Fujiwara, Boston Phoenix

WINNER-Anat Pirchi Prize for Best Drama
Jerusalem International Film Festival 2010
In giving the prize, the international jury cited the film's bold cinematic language, profound content, beautiful cinematography, original use of sound and exceptional acting.

Dissolution

Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine | 2012