Invisible

Humane, unsentimental, eye-opening.

Isn't always easy to watch, but Bojanov's film is so compelling you just can't turn away.

Invisible is undeniably compelling, as Bojanov visits and revisits these people over a period of years.

Bojanov's sad subjects could as easily be in Detroit or Glasgow or Marseilles. What keeps his film from being a relentless wallow in wasted lives is its surprising conclusion.

It disposes with social concerns and lets the individuals speak for themselves--and the regrets, rationalizations, and jerry-rigged morality they express are often fascinating.

Though each character is living a distinctly personal tragedy, the filmmaker's antipathy to context or coherence effectively bars us from all but the most fleeting emotional involvement.