The accumulating effect of this airy and resonant film’s formal devices is that of a heartbroken artist learning to reengage with society.
The result is both fascinating and frustrating, though the innovative presentation keeps things on the positive end of the spectrum.
The film’s considered, half-fictional approach perfectly serves an artist who’s always been in the process of making and remaking his own mercurial image.
It’s almost funny now, to think: it wasn’t that long ago that movie aficionados had to explain to people the difference between full-screen and widescreen.