Divided Loyalties
Taubin describes “the...categories of images...performers and spectacles, architectural structures, children, artisans, travel by land, sea and air, manicured landscapes and animals...the...glistening, elegant world” of Divided Loyalties, “certainly Sonbert's most virtuosic film in terms of...precision.... There is a clear analogy between the filmmaker and the...skilled workers who make up so much of his subject matter. They are all masters of speed and precision.... (The film has) a slightly ironic edge which makes (it) something more than just beautiful memoirs of a charmed life....”