Film as texture. Three elements: Sand, skin, and water. The long, lingering shots of their bodies, moist with perspiration, beaded with sand, are some of the most extraordinary things I have seen in a film. Rarely in a movie do you get such a sense of the tangible, which made this sand-phobic person squirm. The plot is interesting but too complicated to explain here. In any case the movie is best described as a contest between sand and water, with skin caught in between. Borrowing from Sisyphus, a new element is born at the conclusion: spirit.
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