Eternity and a Day

I was moved and captivated throughout its 132 minutes.

Its long, fluid takes escort us through space and time, to universal themes and broader topicalities, effortlessly fending off charges of hermetic aestheticism.

The quiet, hypnotic intensity of the cinematic journey one experiences in Eternity and a Day is a rare and lasting pleasure.

Consider giving this worthy anachronism a couple of hours of your time. If you can tune into its somber, hypnotic wavelength, you may be surprised at the raw emotional impact it delivers in key scenes, and at its ability to provoke your imagination.

Makes a somber redemption song out of melancholy and infinite sadness, one whose eloquence transcends its stark Andrei Tarkovskyian dankness and somnambulism.

What had been a realistic work, lyric but realistic, slides into ostentatious symbolism.

This is not light stuff. But if Alexandre doesn't find the answer to [his] question, he does finally come to a reconciliation that ultimately makes Eternity and a Day a lesson more about living than dying.

Thought poets were a dying species, did you?

Precisely controlled and confidently poetic.