Visually lush

These are the films that make me tremble with a painter’s pleasure, or go cold with the dark world they create.

What Dreams May Come, though admittedly a sappy story about boundless love, is a color feast that leads through heaven and hell. I watch it for the color.

Ink

Mirrormask

The Song of Sparrows is a comical yet serious, heartbreaking yet uplifting story of an family in Iran, and their quest to buy one of the daughters, who is deaf, a new hearing aide. Color is splashed throughout a drab landscape, like the characters in this film.

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Secret of Kells

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