Didn't "get it"

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2006)

I like both actors and the director. I like art films and SciFi and love stories. But I didn't "get" this film. It seemed disjointed and lost...like it didn't know which direction it wanted to go. The trailers were deceptive...we went expecting a SciFi-Love story...and got (?). I consider myself to be fairly able to pick up on nuances and threads...but there wasn't much to connect any of the 3 stories. If it was about reincarnation...what's the point...since they didn't realize they were intertwined souls. If he was the immortal...that never came out, and obviously she wasn't. There was a great premise here...but as usual with "art films" someone from the real world should have been in the process. Was it Buddhist? Kaballah? Existential? Mayan? Christian? All of the above? Maybe the remake in 20-years will be better...and understandable.