Signs & Wonders (2000)
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66% of critics liked it
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Following up on his critically successful debut, Sunday (1997), which won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter directs this romantic drama about a man obsessed with coincidence, serendipity, and the preternatural. Alec Skarsgard (Stellan Skarsgard) is a Stockholm-born American… More Following up on his critically successful debut, Sunday (1997), which won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter directs this romantic drama about a man obsessed with coincidence, serendipity, and the preternatural. Alec Skarsgard (Stellan Skarsgard) is a Stockholm-born American who lives in Athens and works as a commodities trader. He takes great pride in his ability to perceive patterns and trends in the daily undulations of the market and thereby turn a huge profit. In his private life, he also obsesses over random incidents and occurrences, looking for a deeper meaning in the chaos of everyday life. Though he loves his longtime wife Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling) and their two teenaged children, he finds that he cannot resist the seductive wiles of his co-worker Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger). He soon breaks the illicit affair off in an effort to save the marriage. Yet when he accidentally bumps into Katherine on a family ski trip, believing it fateful coincidence, he leaves with his co-worker and files for divorce. Later, Katherine reveals that she concocted their fortuitous meeting. Aghast, Alec promptly spurns her and returns to his soon-to-be ex-wife. Since she has already taken up with Greek intellectual Andreas (Dimitris Katalifos), Marjorie is less than enthusiastic about reconciling. Meanwhile, Katherine follows Alec and informs him that she is pregnant. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jonathan Nossiter
- Written By
- James Lasdun, Jonathan Nossiter
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 11, 2000 Wide
- On DVD
- Apr 26, 2002
- Studio
- Strand Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rampling, to her credit, helps hold the nuthouse together.
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Until it devolves into what seems like a quasi-surreal Fatal Attraction ... offers a stark, spooky portrait of family fracture and loss.
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Loren King, Boston Globe
Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
For all its ambition and richness of style, Signs & Wonders never shows us what's inside Alec.
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Jason Gorber, Film Scouts
Danger: when your suspense film ends and you don't care who really did "it", whatever "it" is, you might want to rethink the plot.
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Cast
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Stellan Skarsgård
as Alec
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Charlotte Rampling
as Marjorie
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Deborah Kara Unger
as Katherine
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Dimitris Katalifos
as Andreas
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David Simonds
as Kent
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Alexandros Mylonas
as Police Captain
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Dimitris Kamberidis
as Sotiris
