The second breathtaking film of the year. In truth, despite winning Cannes last spring, it's a seamless continuation of Tropical Malady and Syndromes and a Century. These are works gifted to us from the gentlest shaman. What a pleasure, for those watching in the enlightened darkness, to luxuriate in his strange, spiritual and puzzlingly comic other-worlds. The red-eyed forest beings, the fish and the princess, the sweet out-of-body ghosts. A fantastical impression of reality. Take me back there, to that inspired, imaginative space, where the incredible is wistfully promised with seeping
premonition.
