Here

Adjust your gaze to the director’s more fine-grained perspective and “Here’s” simple gestures become seismic, its images of the everyday imbued with urgent emotional possibility.

At only 84 minutes and light on plot, at times this film feels so slight that it might just slip through your fingers. And yet its ethereality is what makes it enchanting.

Nothing is overtly stated -- this is a Bas Devos film after all. But the details -- a small gift (of soup, what else?) and the private smile that greets it -- speak volumes.

It crept up on me at its own measured walking pace -- and it incidentally has the best and cleverest last line of any film I have seen this year.

One of those small, slice of life films that's really just about vibe, the vibe here being displacement and loneliness... The only thing that held my attention here is the cinematography.

With a plot so sparse that even a one-sentence summary threatens to spoil an hour of the movie, “Here” manages to present some of the most striking moving images in recent memory.

It’s a love story only in the subtlest, gentlest ways—not only between a man and a woman but between both of them and the places they inhabit. It’s a movie that calls us to look closer and appreciate the world around us and the people placed in our path.

While aesthetically beautiful, Bas Devos’ fourth feature film Here fails to meaningfully answer the questions of identity it poses.

With this story, Devos vindicates the weight of the essential against the roar of the grandiloquent and a cinema that looks inward so that the viewer sees himself reflected in its images. [Full review in Spanish]

Bas Devos’s exquisite film of urban wanderings...is a quietly feel-good film of existential ponderings and fleeting connections.