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  • Summary: A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his crumbling old house for them. (Calliope Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Content and style dovetail superbly in this offbeat drama, where images continually change in size and shape, evoking the story's message that human experience is always a pathway, not a destination.
  2. It's an interesting conceit that quickly becomes a precious annoyance especially since the drama itself is so static.
  3. Squint through the humbug, and there's some genuine life going on.
  4. Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    60
    Unfortunately demonstrates the same fractured attention span that makes those Oscar-night montages so entertaining.

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