Impossible Object (or, Story of a Love Story)

John Frankenheimer, for some reason, decided to make a French art film. It’s…not good. Filming from a screenplay written by Nicholas Mosley based on his own novel, Impossible Object is supposed to be this dizzying morass of reality with fantasy with obvious inspiration from Italian filmmakers like Fellini and Pasolini, but ultimately the whole thing just isn’t that interesting. The characters are too dull, their conflicts too mundane, and the distractions of fantasy too disconnected from wha...