This is a beautifully shot journey of confusing proportions during rough times in a world where night has fallen eternal and strange things start accumulating. Expect discomfort and confusion, but prepare for scenes of sudden slow tension that lingers on-screen and off. If you dig films that take their time bringing you into a world and allowing you to take from it what you will, you'll probably dig this one. If you prefer things made clear, move along. If you're the type of person to ask "What's going on? Why'd they do that?", don't see this with a crowd.
Having seen it twice within a 24-hour period, I must say it's worth a second viewing if not just to catch all the foreshadowing and better understand what the hell is going on. I'm not saying anything about the plot because I don't want to ruin or alter anyone's journey.
Things I Like:
1) The way it's entirely composed of long takes and tracking shots
2) How every moment of every damn scene is screenshot-worthy
3) Dat consistent rough-form cinematography
4) Dat almost non-existent soundtrack
5) The way it's almost subtly dark
6) The telling of Icarus
7) Dat ending
Favorite Character:
Lady Padmé. For the look of her (even when bare) and her words.
Similar:
1) Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018). For its slowness, story-telling, and cinematography.
2) Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019). For its beautiful slowness and cinematography.
3) Paranoid Park (2007). For dem screenshot-worthy scenes.
