Stillman takes those ideas—of political alliances and sympathies—seriously, and suggests... that the political ideas in question pack major consequences for the lives of individuals. But he also knows that they're not deterministic in the lives of individuals, that the historical stakes and the intimate ones, the long-term scope of ideas and the immediate desires that drive people, are utterly dissimilar, askew, even contradictory. And that's why] ...the romance that drives it is so subtle and so complex.
Richard Brody
August 6, 2014