Amazing scene after amazing scene! This movie moves around in circles, almost like a dog looking for a spot to pee, but instead, we have an old man looking backwards and through his life, thinking about unfinished business before he dies. The meditative mood kind of reminds me of Taste of Cherry, but the style is much different. The camera is almost always moving, although it is never moving faster than the speed of a worm’s crawl. I love this effect, and it fits the film very well, it makes you really watch and meditate and pay attention to what’s on the screen, but it also creates a kind of tension not unlike “suspense” but in a totally different way than Hitchcock of course. Another testament to the greatness of the film is that even though there are many really long takes, you are rarely made aware of them (whereas when I’m watching a Tarr film I always feel like it’s a very obvious device). The images he captures in this film are some of the most remarkable: the one in a blur of snow near the border, with those people looking almost like scribbles in the distance, the scenes in the bus were amazing (with the cyclists in yellow raincoats)!, and the wedding dance scene… there were so many others. The only flaw is that I felt at times like the movie could have ended, or that it seemed to drag in a few places, but I really didn’t mind, afterall it is a meandering meditative kind of film.