Format: Video from The Magic Flashdrive on laptop.
As someone who lacks belief in the supernatural, I find a film like Signs & Wonders (sometimes written as Signs and Wonders) both interesting and incomprehensible. I have a complete and total disbelief in signs or portents of a mystical nature. I don’t believe in premonitions or prophecy. Signs & Wonders is a film that trades on the belief of such phenomena. That’s strangely compelling to me specifically because I don’t buy into it, and I’m interested in the mind that does. At the same time, it’s difficult for me to understand specifically because I do not understand it.
Alec (Stellan Skarsgard) works evidently as a stockbroker. His wife Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling) works at the American consulate in Greece. It’s an interesting (“interesting” in the Chinese proverb sense) time in Greece during the period of this story. It happens just as the Greek military junta (maintained by American influence) is coming to an end, putting the country in a period of flux. The two have a happy marriage and two kids. This hasn’t stopped Alec from having a torrid and passionate affair with Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), an American co-worker.
