Awesome film

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2008)

Two lovers collaborate on a mythical sci-fi romance novel that projects them 400 years into the past, and 600 years into the future. Each period (past, present, future) is an exquisite allegorical variation on the theme of death as creation, each expressed as a love story between Thomas and Isabel Creo.
This film is full of imagery, symmetry, symbolism, and metaphor - especially in the future. This is a good film to make you feel the awe of nature and life on the grandest of scales from a perspective that is otherwise difficult to accept in part due to our attachment to ourselves and others.
The DVD jacket blur is misleading and causes some to be confused. Do not confuse the outer story with the inner story created by Isabel to help her husband through the suffering process.