Sunday, June 01, 2008

The Fall

We saw this hours ago and I am still completely blown away. I think some time might need to pass before I write anything meaningful about it. Here's what I want to say now: It is gorgeous. Sincere. The performance by 11 year-old Cantinca Untaru is spellbinding. The saturated colors, quirky, beautiful costumes and otherworldly images are all completely mesmerizing. The two stories are perfectly entwined, sad, dark, funny, timeless, surreal. It might go to my top 20 of all time. I know I'm gushing. I'll stop...and maybe I'll be able to put something more coherent together about it later. This is was just perfect film making for me. I had very high expectations based on seeing one preview and those were totally blown out of the water.

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