A film that will enter your dream life

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2018)

This remarkable work does much more than dazzle with special effects as it carries with it a dark and bitter concoction of melancholy and longing with it's tragic female lead and mind-blowing reach into philosophy and physics, linguistics and psychology that made for me a deeply affecting piece. I'm not a great fan of slimey alien encounters but here they don't overstay thier welcome and alow plenty of time for contemplation and the overarching humanity and compassion that dominates this story. So unusually for an invasion-type movie there is time and screen space devoted to long languorous sections for thought and releflection and visual allusion that reminds me of Tarkovsky's Solaris, and even Terence Malick's The Tree of Life. Basically it's classy stuff and however much the plot turns back onto positive notes the lasting impression for me was a noble sadness, a mourning that dignifies the protagonist's journey.