Amos Neufeld

A jewel of a masterpiece: An deeply honest, insightful, moving, transformative film about the lives we live, the beauty and pain. Chekov's Uncle Vanya is interwoven with the characters' lives to perfection. Art and life refracting each other. Ultimately a penetrating look at who we are: our inner true selves in all our emotional complexity and contradictory natures. I haven't seen a more beautiful and moving film in many years -- if ever. though comparisons are ridiculous). The three fully engaging hours do not contain one false or unnecessary note.

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A visually exquisite love story as well as an exploration of the art of looking and the intricate interplay between friendship, love, memory and art and their profound importance in illuminating one's inner life. A film no cinephile would want to miss, it portrays two strong, independent, insightful young women coming up against and transcending their circumscribed historical period.

A stunningly beautiful painful deeply intense exquisitely made film about struggling to return to one's former life after the traumas and losses suffered during WWII. Beanpole is about as honest and deep a probe into what it means to be human, to try to find hope in the face of tremendous losses, despair, trauma and death as I've ever seen.