This is a mediation/essay on childhood that involves kids talking about their hopes and fears and sequences of them being kids and others doing things representative of their feelings.
This is very much an art house film. It is a heady film that forces the audience to engage with it. The film has much it wants to say and requires that you come along for the ride it has chartered.
How you react to the film is going to depend upon how you react to the very deliberate construction of the film. How you react is going to entirely depend upon how you like art films.
For me I was up and down with the film. Because of the varying styles of the film, one part documentary one part mediation, one part artistic exploration, my interest varied. There are some great sequences in this film. There are also some sequences where I intellectually know what the filmmakers were reaching for but I don’t think they achieved it
Is it a bad film? No far from it. The truth is that I can see this playing several of the more serious festivals in the US (New Directors New Films, the New York Film Festival on one of the side bars). If there is any question about anything it would be I am uncertain about how wide an audience the film is going to get.
Worth a look for anyone who loves art house fare.
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