Watched this having heard it discussed with much enthusiasm on the Pure Cinema Podcast. Man, did those guys burn me this time. This is a borderline nonsensical piece of meandering fluff which leaves you wanting to slap the film maker and wondering WTF John Sayles was thinking when he was writing this.
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Great Choice 2017
I would have preferred if it wasn’t all *about* something, though. It works best as a diabolical piece of surrealism. As soon as a meaning is imposed on us, its inventiveness and invitation to imagine is undercut.
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