Along with Elephant, I enjoyed this movie tremendously. After seeing My Own Private Idaho, Even the Cowgirls get the Blues, and so on, I thought this guy was done for good, Hal Harteleyized if you will, shelved in the category of “once promising filmmaker becomes a indie nonsense”. Glad to see he made it.

What astonishes me the most is the no-point-of-view style of directing and the carefully composition of each scene that makes it look almost like a documentary. Besides life passing by, not much happens here. Oh yeah, there is a murder but you kind of forget.