This is a restorartion of a film Barry Jenkins has called the greatest film of the 21st century.
Opening and closing with long tracking shots- the opening is of the sun rising, the closing is of it setting this the medatative look at an affair in a devout Mennonite community.
This is a very deliberate film. It moves at the speed of life. Actually more accurately it moves at it's own speed of life. Events play out in real time only to have us realize that months have passed. It's a film that places us in a unique place and time.
While I like this film, I don't love it. I find that as much as the film strives to reflect real life, I find that the fingerprints of the director a bit too visible. Things play out as in life until they don't. The magic realism doesn't click.
On the other hand many people love this film like Barry Jenkins and it's on numerous greatest films ever made lists.
If you've never seen it, give it a try.
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