Seconds

A cri de coeur against materialism and the capitalist system, John Frankenheimer’s Seconds reminded me first and foremost of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s attempts to branch out from the more structured efforts of his earlier films with his unfinished Inferno. Frankenheimer’s first few films had a similar tight visual feel to them, even when he was putting the camera in weird places like Orson Welles, but Seconds is full of handheld cameras, loose filmmaking, and opens with experimental images aro...