X as in Love

At first, I thought this was a little too artsy for my taste. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes. A man walking thought fields of wheat. A man touching a tree. A man looking at a grasshopper.

But it all came together at about the halfway point, when all the scenes became clear, and the story started to come into focus.

A touching, sad story about a man returning to a place of his younger days, and reminiscences of bygone times.

At that point, the makeup on one of the men takes on a meaning that I didn't realize before, making the film all the more touching.

Sad, nostalgic, romantic, and touching.