One of kind dream of a film that shifts formats and styles. It’s a film that delights and using the full extent of what cinema is defined as.
The film is nominally the story of a girl who discovers a boy who disappeared two years before. She decides to take him on a road trip to a place that will be able to restore his diminishing sight. There is infinitely more to the film than that, but that will get you started.
Drifting in and out of genres and using all sorts of formats depending on mood, POV or sequence the film is completely untethered to anything other itself. This is a film that is going to tell the story the best way it knows how and as such it will do what ever it feels it must to hell with convention. It’s a film that is going to delight anyone who loves the physical craft of filmmaking because this film uses everything you can think of.
What makes the film even more glorious is that the film is telling a compelling story. Once we give ourselves over to the tale and let it spin out we become invested in the characters and their journey. To be certain some of it doesn’t quite work, but that’s okay, give it a minute and then it will reverse course and head off in a new and interesting direction.
If you want your mind broadened and your horizons expanded then you must see this. PUNKU will change the way you see cinema for the better.
A must see.
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