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Signs and Wonders
A film by Jonathan Nossiter
"Charlotte Rampling is mesmerizing." - WNBC-TV
 Signs and Wonders by Jonathan Nossiter
brings to the screen a digital visual extravaganza starring Charlotte Rampling,
Stellan
Starsgård and Deborah Kara Unger. Official selection in competition
at Berlin 2000 and Canadian premier at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival, Signs & Wonders
is a psychological thriller and a theatrical comeback for Charlotte Rampling.
Alec Fenton (Stellan Skarsgård), an American by adoption and his wife,
Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling), an American of Greek origin, live with their
two children in
Athens. Both Alec's business life and his tender relationship with
his daughter are guided by a playful but deeply felt need to interpret the
smallest details of the
world as significant.
Under the influence of powerful signs and premonitions, Alec allows himself to veer
in and out of a love affair with a colleague, Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), eventually
leaving his family and returning to America with his lover. Once there, however,
the same belief system urges him back home for one final attempt to win back his
family.
But his new quest is endangered by the presence of a political activist, Andreas
(Dimitris Katalifos), in his family's life. Andreas becomes the victim of a series
of incidents, each one more threatening than the last. Could it be an unleashing
of signs...
Jonathan Nossiter's previous film, Sunday, which he directed and co-wrote,
won Best Film Awards at the Sundance and Deauville Film Festivals and was an Official
Selection in Un Certain Regard at Cannes (1997). Jonathan grew up in France, England,
Italy, Greece and India. He currently resides in NYC where he makes films and is
a trained sommelier concocting the wine lists for several well-reputed restaurants
in Manhattan.
2000, USA, 108 minutes. $28.95.
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