Title: One of the truly great films and art works
Product review: This film is a transcendent work of art: a perfect synthesis of content -- the critique of classical bourgeois European civilization through the eyes of one being socialized into it as a young adult, who is also in touch with the world of dreams, imagination, and otherness -- and form -- the sensitive filmic rendition of the tension between these two dimensions, done almost as though it had been filmed in the early 19th century, in which nature and otherness had not yet been totally overwhelmed by modernization. This is one of those rare films where the film is not only great as a whole, but each scene and each shot seems perfect, from the boat on the lake accompanied by music from Mozart's Magic Flute to Kaspar's dream of the Caucausus to his wild, disorganized effort to play the piano to his interrogation by two clerics to his social display by Lord Stanhope. If Theodor Adorno had been a filmmaker, this is one of the films he would have made.
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