The ‘dreamed' path is ultimately a trope – as if out of a Robert Frost poem, ‘The road not taken.' We are invited to see the two women as reiterations, and to commune with a desire, oft expressed in Schanelec's oeuvre, to be someone else. Schanelec's deliberate taciturnity leaves small gestures and objects – a cap fallen in the midst of a fainting spell, a piece of a jagged shard, or a shoe dropped in haste, or despair – to speak for persons who can't or won't communicate openly.
Ela Bittencourt
Mart 15, 2017