The Edge

An interesting effort at self-examination by the 1960s counterculture over a decade before John Sayles' THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN and Lawrence Kasdan's THE BIG CHILL. Independent filmmaker Robert Kramer gives us a group of disillusioned radicals, once active in the New Left, cloistered together in an unnamed rural locale where they discuss the state of the world and how nothing has changed despite their efforts. With all their causes gone or failed, the people in the group must come to terms with starting their personal lives without the protests and marches that brought them together and gave them purpose. One of their number snaps and decides he will assas...