A ★★★★★ review of Desire Lines (2024)

That‘s an incredibly good film on research and perceiving history. I really liked it how smoothly perspectives, actors, layers have been melted together in an easy to watch and very fluently narrated documentary where time just flies by. It is a clever move to reenact history by paralleling a fictive story part to the filming of documents, projection of archival footage and oral history interviews, as it makes it accessible as an low-key TV history format. But it is a smart ass move, to coat that in Derrida quote that you put up front and let the audience become part