shamborovsky

In the history of the world literature there not a lot of works that can be regarded as magnus opus of an author. I mean now just life lasting huge in volume piece of writing, but a book, you touch once and "life will never be the same". Plato, Aristotle, Marcel Proust are coming to my mind.

Don Quixote stands separately. It if undoubtedly magnus opus pf the whole Spain and Spanish literature. Don Quixote was heavily interpreted by philosophers, artists, novelists etc - Ortega, Unamuno - the most impressive among them.

You have to be prepared to encounter Don Quixote in you life either via original book or mediation or movie. Be careful - Don Quixote undoubtedly will leave trace in your soul.

Really great movie where director has attempted to reveal to the screen this complex, multi layer correlation between Don Quixote and the world, between reality and allusions, between you and me, between humdrum reality & a dream that can come true.

I like movies, where you feel like in a boat on a river riding towards unforgettable experience. In case of Terry Gilliam's film you not just float, from time to time you lose the sense of reality, you become absolutely engaged in the events happening in the movie without being confident where are you and what the f..k in happening :)

Great work, liked it very much!

Beautiful, tender as flower and " light" in terms of Haneke's style - I expected it to be hard & taught.

Movie appeared to be the life story of few generations that are stuck in life. Somebody succeeds to leave successfully, somebody - not. Those who stuck do not suffer - they just lead the regular life - betray wife, indulge in sexual experiments, fight with spoiled kids, try to help refugees, solve probs at work & at home - regular lifetime routine.

In some moments boring (by the way, as our everyday life) and in some extremely beautiful as the sea, movie is calm, tranquil and spectacular.

We are all stuck and it's up to us to decide which direction to go - to go in or to go out.

I would like to write about last episodes of the movie: touching, deep, white, bright sea and the seaside are reminding me Marcelle Proust and Balbec times of his novel...

One can watch and be bored from the watching- but, probably, this is exactly the effect Haneke is aiming to achieve.