Last Year at Marienbad meets Little Big Man

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2017)

This is an incredible film in that it portrays different timelines in a coherent fashion. One can follow the alternative pasts despite them having divergent lines. However they are not given equal time, for instance one of his marriages is only slightly covered. To understand this film is like trying to follow "Last Year at Marienbad" with a compilation of things that happened that didn't happen. Both are love stories that don't require analysis.
On another level it is like "Little Big Man" with an ancient man telling of things that maybe happened or perhaps occurred in an imagination. Until viewing it on a preview channel I had not even heard of this film. I gather it did not receive a North American release. Too bad. It was superior to "Cloud Atlas" and "Elysium" to which it has also had some similarities.