A very good movie

It is one of the many movies I kept coming accross on this wonderful website and since everyone seemed to be really enthusiast about it, it made me really curious. And, boy, I wasn't disappointed... Indeed, it turned out to be a fascinating and really bold experimental feature challenging some of the most basic narrative rules. Contrary to most viewers, I have seen Jaco Van Dormael previous work, so I knew he was a pretty good director but I didn't expect him to make something so impressive. I really wonder how he managed to get the fundings for this flick. I mean, it really looked amazing and rather often quite expensive but it is far from being made for a mainstream audience and apparently, it was barely seen upon release. Anyway, the whole thing is a huge (almost 3 hours long) mindf*ck, dealing with life, death, love, the future, the past and many other things that went over my head. Not only was it pretty deep and weird, there was also some fun stuff with some (seemingly) random and quite often hilarious small events taking place every 5 minutes. My only complain I would have is that, since you keep jumping from one story line to another without much continuation, you had only a few minutes to get acquainted with the characters and what was going on before being moved to something drastically different, so it gets rather alienating sometimes. It didn't help either that Juno Temple and Diane Kruger, two actresses who didn't look like each other at all, portrayed the same character. Still, it remains an amazing experimental feature, something to cherish, and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

8/10