I watched this as part of the six DVD Spanish release Julio Medem 'Collection', easily the most cost effective way of getting his first six films.
Quite weirdly wonderful, this sums up all that is good - and bad - about World cinema. Forever inventive and beguiling, one just doesn't know where either the narrative or camera will take us next. But that weirdness and fantasy can leave one confused and wishing for a more concise reality.
Medem's immense imagination - who else could summon a screenplay on the back of a just a grub-exterminator just released from an insane asylum? but also make it work. I've never come across any director quite as unique as Julio Medem.
I do like and enjoyed this film but in my opinion, it isn't quite up there with his best, which is The Red Squirrel, followed by Sex & Lucia, then Lovers Of the Arctic Circle.
Quite weirdly wonderful, this sums up all that is good - and bad - about World cinema. Forever inventive and beguiling, one just doesn't know where either the narrative or camera will take us next. But that weirdness and fantasy can leave one confused and wishing for a more concise reality.
Medem's immense imagination - who else could summon a screenplay on the back of a just a grub-exterminator just released from an insane asylum? but also make it work. I've never come across any director quite as unique as Julio Medem.
I do like and enjoyed this film but in my opinion, it isn't quite up there with his best, which is The Red Squirrel, followed by Sex & Lucia, then Lovers Of the Arctic Circle.