Pretty easy to see where Leos Carax gets a lot of is influence for 'Pola X' with this film. I didn't find it as engaging as Bartas's previous efforts but maybe that's because I felt like the others had more richness in the context of post-soviet eastern European conditions. The homage references to Tarkovsky as usual are done with the utmost respect and doesn't feel like he is blatantly lifting off of him.
A beautiful and fragile series of images. I'm going to revisit this, as I believe that there is more to discover and understand.
Dialogue-free abstractions of domestic emotion and deep, somber nostalgia. Wonderful. This is how you create a language of images without resorting to kooky-for-kooky's-sake visuals.
Opera dall'atmosfera straniante ed estremamente dark dove il silenzio non è mai stato così disturbante!
Alienating work and extremely dark atmosphere where the silence has never been so disturbing!
the only dialogue here are two monologues at the beggining and at the end and it's still a very eye grabbing film.
Methodically pursues and achieves its goals.
So many faces, and yet, so alone.