21st Century musical, style with substance

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2001)

A film that is as packed with wild visual imagery as this one is usually accused of being devoid of meaning. In this case, the images assist the meaning.
There is a feeling of being young in a new world, full of thousands of new sensory experience. When the hero realises that he is indeed in love, the film slows down, his new universe reduced to the two hearts beating in unison.
As in many love stories, hearts are broken, and we are drawn in, closer and closer. This film is about people, their faces filling the screen. The camera lingers on the countenance of each of the players. Eyes predominate, letting us glimpse into the souls of these people.
Hypnotic, mesmerizing and seductive, this work is worthy of, if not requiring, multiple viewings.