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Title: It feels right or does not, depending...
Review: Issues of format aside, people either love this movie or hate it, depending it seems on familiarity and acceptance of the metephore on which this movie is based. The US is rooted in English culture, a society with a singular relationship with the ocean: dark, violent, and cold - a sea so dangerous, they dug a tunnel under it. Most of the rest of western Europe, and all those shown in this movie, are connected to the Mediteranian. This creates an all together different relationship with the sea, a bright, warm, and calm place where the ocean is mother, giver of life, and the depths of the sea are the womb of the Earth. Understand and accept this relationship, and the movie makes sense - a cascade of elegant gestures. Do not and the story is but a series of weak and unrelated sub plots.
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