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FILM
The flashback structure in Fred Schepisi's new film, Last Orders, is so intricate that at times the slipping from present to past feels almost subliminal.
Schepisi (who also wrote the script, derived from Graham Swift's novel) hasn't developed a new technique here. The jigsaw-puzzle narrative, its pieces dug out of the recollections of characters whose...
'Last Orders': the Un-'Citizen Kane'
By STEVE VINEBERGThe flashback structure in Fred Schepisi's new film, Last Orders, is so intricate that at times the slipping from present to past feels almost subliminal.
Schepisi (who also wrote the script, derived from Graham Swift's novel) hasn't developed a new technique here. The jigsaw-puzzle narrative, its pieces dug out of the recollections of characters whose...
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