Mini-Review: Breathtaking. Maddin's style reaching its summit. Glimpses revealed themselves in "Careful", "Saddest Music..." and "Cowards bend the Knee", but here the fragmentary "blink-and-you-miss-it" editing, great compositions and weird, dark humor really come together and is even rendered touching, heartfelt through Rosselini's great narration and the all around expressive acting. I thought this approach only worked in short films (his superb "The Heart of the World"). I was wrong. This is cinema.

Mini-Review: A visual poem. Switching between partial and complete silence, whilst imbuing every colorful technicolor composition with a yearning for the unknown and for a past often only hinted at. A rare movie at once weirdly comfortable and uncomfortable in its own skin, its own celluloid. Just like Travis (the main character). One of the best reflections on loneliness and the search for forgiveness I've ever seen.

Mini-Review: Nothing but love for Balthazar - and Bresson. I don't just admire, but absolutely love his sparse, ascetic style. The scene where Marie and Gerard lie together in the hay takes all of 10 seconds, but is done with such flair it's almost unbelievable. Bresson chops, crops and shows that the elements left out are as important as the ones left in. A beautiful movie. In every way. Both perfectly raw and perfectly adjusted down to every last frame.