This kind of formalism needs to do more than walk through classical wonders. It should want to create cinema that can stand near or beside them. This movie defensively consecrates what's already there. You don't need a film to do that.
Overview
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
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An exquisite rumination on life, love and art that tickles the heart and mind in equal measure.
Green's richly textured, painterly images fuse with the story to evoke the essence of humane urbanity and the relationships that it fosters, whether educational, familial, or erotic.
Green doesn't so much use his characters as mouthpieces as emotionally invest them in art, turning opinions into feelings.
The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film.
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