Set in the distant past of 2011, when the Occupy movement was still roaring and all hope was not yet lost, Vladan Nikolic's Allure struggles to make sense of an uprising that didn't ascend to the heights many had hoped. It doesn't help that the docudrama is arriving neither in the heat of the moment nor with more than a few years' worth of hindsight on a movement whose full implications have yet to be sussed out. Nikolic does contribute to that effort, however, with a multicultural portrait of several women either directly involved in or tangentially affected by Occupy; the more he expands beyond this core element, the more interesting Allure becomes. The filmmaker, originally from Serbia, has a sensitive understanding of the immigrant experience s...
- 3/4/2015
- Village Voice
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