Signs & Wonders

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  • Opened February 9, 2001 
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • | Adult Situations
  • Alec Fenton, an Stockholm-born American commodities trader is living happily in Athens with his longtime wife Marjorie and their two teenaged children. Alec believes in signs and premonitions, which leads him to a torrid affair with Katherine, his beautiful co-worker. But his obsessive pursuit of portents results in the slow, torturous unraveling of his seemingly orderly world. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitris Katalifos
  • Director: Jonathan Nossiter
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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88
Boston Globe
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Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings. Read full review

75
Christian Science Monitor
| David Sterritt

Unusual and imaginative drama. Read full review

75
New York Daily News
| Jami Bernard

The best performance is by Rampling. (The) camera hangs on her, knowing that nothing escapes those wise, sad-lidded eyes. Read full review

75
Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Jonathan Nossiter's second feature (after the intricate and haunting ''Sunday'') strikes unnerving chords of mystery and dismay as it fuses the sinister, jump cut dislocations of a metaphysical thriller like ''Don't Look Now'' with a pain soaked meditation on love, guilt, marriage, and adultery. Read full review

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