I agree entirely with the review by Robert Woodward. This film has superb moments of pure cinema in which the very long takes, composed puely of light and sound, have a beauty and poetry which only cinema can convey. The extremely long opening and closing shots are majestic and entralling. The 'story' in between I found to be unbearably slow when watching on the small screen (a recording of a 'world cinema' broadcast by Channel Four in the UK and broadcast at something like 2.00 in the morning) and I only managed to see the whole film in something like seven snatches. Like Robert, I found the ending bizarre and inexplicable which, whilst not being a problem just for that reason, did not however clarify at all what the director was attempting to say through the narrative of the film. To conclude, this film is like a complicated expressionist painting or an atonal musical concert piece; challenging and demanding, but containing great beauty and true elements of pure cinema. I would definitely recommend seeing it in an art-house cinema (the only place one is likely to see it on the big screen, I should imagine, beyond private showings), however, and not in a small screen format.