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The main characters’ navigate complex relationships in an intimate journey in search of inner peace through yoga, with schizophrenia lurking in the background. Roger, a yoga teacher, Zoe, his daughter, has just returned from the army, and Maya, her girlfriend, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The trio of outsiders seek to find common intimacy, communication and understanding.
Loosely related scenes show the multidimensional characters and their convention-defying relationships. Director Zbigniew Bzymek rejects chronology and classic narrative, opting instead to explore emotional and spiritual landscapes, blurring the bo
The main characters’ navigate complex relationships in an intimate journey in search of inner peace through yoga, with schizophrenia lurking in the background. Roger, a yoga teacher, Zoe, his daughter, has just returned from the army, and Maya, her girlfriend, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The trio of outsiders seek to find common intimacy, communication and understanding.
Loosely related scenes show the multidimensional characters and their convention-defying relationships. Director Zbigniew Bzymek rejects chronology and classic narrative, opting instead to explore emotional and spiritual landscapes, blurring the boundaries between reality and reverie. The film frequently floats towards abstraction, immersing characters in empty, unreal spaces, enigmatic allusions and minimalist gestures, to an improvised guitar soundtrack strongly resembling that in the film Dead Man. The world of Utopians has unclear and constantly metamorphosing contours, and viewers’ connections with the characters resemble their on-screen mutual relationships – difficult, though worthwhile in search of utopia.
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