This two-disc set provides a well-rounded survey of Lamorisse’s singular work.
Albert Lamorisse’s film sees bliss and sorrow as inseparably bound and equally enchanted.
Lamorisse’s film is a lovely and troubling evocation of childhood fantasies.
For Albert Lamorisse, the pleasures of childhood are as fleeting as they are ecstatic.
For a few more dollars, couldn’t Janus have packaged them together and clinched the deal for penny-saving soccer moms?
The film mostly lives in the present, delving into history only on a personal level.
It’s exciting as well as a little nerve-wracking that Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest feature offers many firsts in his career.