Goodbye, How Are You? (2009)

I watched Goodbye, How Are You (dir. Boris Mitic), a film comprising 25 (or how many were they?) sardonic jokes, or maybe aphorism would be a better word, and my constant reaction was that I did not get the point. These jokes were grim, sarcastic, dark - I could sometimes get a glimpse of what was supposed to be subversive or funny, but the film remained elusive to me. The film takes on many themes - history, wars, violence - and it often lands in the absurd, the skewed. A voice-over drones on, telling us these stories while the images shown often juxtapose the journalistic with the almost surreal. As a collage, this works well, and it is perhaps a film I should give another chance.