A film exploring the beauty of austerity with passionate rigour. It reminded me a lot of Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’ in terms of style, but the religious sensibility was (obviously) foregrounded. A film to meditate in and on, rather than chat about – although the privy council gathered for it found it good to chat about.

There is an interesting interview with the director here.

There was such a sense of joy by the end of the film. There were many images that captured that sense – but this was one of them: