Arcadia

At once a celebration and elegy, warning and fairy tale, this was a striking, troubling and above all intoxicating film.

There's a maudlin tone here and a tragic sense of loss...that makes it ineffably compelling.

Arcadia layers its tumbling images to form a portrait of an idiosyncratic nation that hasn't so much lost its way, but rather fallen out of love with itself.

After a gentle introduction which could almost begin any straightforward look at the subject, things begin to get a little weird.