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Dividedintothreechapters,AGENERALDISAPPOINTMENTisanexistentialmeditationbasedonatextreadthroughaseriesoflongstillframes.ThesestagethedirectorSergeGarciaineverydaysituationsthataresuffusedwithadepressivesenseofthegrotesque,wherewhatismundanebecomesabsurd,thusweighingheavilyonthecharacter’ssolitarybody.Asacounterpointtothissilent,pedestrianeverydayscene,thetextmaybeseeninsubtitles,likesomeinnervoicethatbringstomind,throughthetellingofoddanecdotes,thecausticmeanderingsofWoodyAllenorLarryDavid.ThebasiclogorrheicschemetoAGENERALDISAPPOINTMENTmatchesitswonderousprecisionaswellasitsreflexivedensity.AfterGRANDCENTRALHOTEL(FID2021),SergeGarciaagainputstogetheracinematicobjectattheserviceofdiscourse,anddevisesameanstobringtogetherliterature(hisownand,amongothers,byKathrynScanlan)andphilosophicalthought(byLaurenBerlant).Thishedoesbydintofneat,longframings.AsSergeGarciaissittinginaparkedcar,eatingawayfromanoodledishthatinevitablybringstomindthedrearinessofanundercovercop’slifeinsecond-ratecrimefilms,thetextinvitesonetoponderoverthesystemicfailuresinherenttocapitalistsocieties,andoverhowvaintheirpromisesofhappinessandself-fulfilmentare.Shortscenescomeandgofromthestreettoaroom,inamotionreassertingthepoliticaldimensionoftheintimate.Insodoing,italsoconfirmsthatthenecessaryanalysisofourmostpersonalaffects(feelingsofmaladjustment,frustrations,neuroses)arethemselvesmanufacturedandnormed.Throughaclose-uponanamplifier,thevoiceofLaureneLaVallis,somesoon-forgotten1980ssinger,reversestheoperationofconcentration,fromreadingtofulllisteningasapotentialityforareappropriationofone’sbodyinthepresent.Unostentatiously,whatSergeGarciaweavesissomepresenceintheworldanduntooneself.(ClaireLasolle)