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A “critic’s choice” discussed in the New York Times.
Beautiful, funny, understated, and unusual. The cinematography is spare and chiseled (though as a reviewer writes, it gets rich and more color-soaked at the end, reflecting the movie's thematic development); the movies effect rises out of an unusual quietness. The payoff, given its apparent ingredients, is surprisingly large. My wife told me that the movie can be read as a Christian allegory involving the Eucharist, and I see that, but in a crucial way it subverts the Christian approach, because it’s art and pleasure that leads the absurdly and narrowly Christian folk out of their darkness and into happiness, however temporary. A sophisticated and surprising version of a feel-good movie.
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