Dissolution

Here, dreams and reality rub shoulders, and redemption seems as distant as peace itself.

Nina Menkes's camera is at its most effective when it seems dumbfounded at what it's indexing.

You'd swear Menkes were remaking Frownland in the Holy Land instead of tweaking a literary totem.

Loosely based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Nina Menkes' "Dissolution" is the type of film you'll think about months after you've seen it.