BAMstutz's Review

Summary - Perfect 5.0

Both visually and soulfully, this film is gorgeous.
It’s a journey into the mind of a man trapped in his paralyzed body who refuses despair and soars on the wings of memory and imagination.

Acting - Great 4.0

Point of view is important in pulling the viewer into this film. The actors are engaging and beautiful. Most memorable are the women who recite the french alphabet in a lovely sing-song cadence. What could be agonizing, is instead liberating

Film - Perfect 5.0

Like a nightmare, an odyssey, and wingless flight, this is the strongest area of the film. The director, Julien Schnabel, is a well known and successful american visual artist, and he weaves images like a collage of despair and hope.

Edge - Sordid 2.7

It is an assault on your senses from the start, and the scene of the eye-lid being sewn shut remains painful to this day.

Reality - Surreal 2.8

Like inhabiting another man’s mind.

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