matt-27-340608

But I know good art when I see it. Absolutely compelling from whoa to go! Amazing art direction, and storyline is amazingly creative, in line with the best JRPGs and mind bending animes out there, but then more. Excruciatingly realised cybergoth art nouveau. An absolute gem.

If interweaving characters and storylines that shift and shape and provide shocked gasps and yells of excitement float your boat, then get in your ship, skipper, and enjoy the ride.

Highly stylised, over the top, but with obscene beauty that just don't quit, you'll be wondering along with me why on earth something this daring and epic hadn't been made before. It's almost as if someone actually gave creative people full creative control without exec manhandling and let the flower bloom with the right kind of gardening, i.e. Giving it water, sun and space.

I didn't like it because it seemed like it was too full of itself. I enjoyed some of the actors' portrayals and some moments elicited laughter, however for the most part it seemed a masturbatory affair about clichés regarding New York, musicians, artists, idealism = uselessness, young couples and their troubles, with some irreverent twee magic "surrealism" monologues which are actually the only good moments in the film. You will probably like this film if you wear no socks with shoes, have moustache wax, a collection of vintage cameras and/or a couple Belle & Sebastian albums. An utterly missable watch. I do wish a lot of young film makers would be more critical or aware of glaring and objectifying clichés running rampant throughout their work, rather than ham- fistedly wielding them like rubber chickens while flogging the movie-watching public with their excretions on cinema. The delineation between sincerity, sarcasm and irony is far too subtle and haphazard for my tastes. In the end they took my money, so I'm feeling a bit violated right now.