Soi Cowboy

It mostly maintains an artful minimalism you will either find subtle or terminally boring.

Here is an artist who has gone back to the drawing board and pared down his act to deliver a stark and complex humanist message with technical brio and a broad knowledge of cinema, demonstrating real poise and originality.

Soi Cowboy, confirms Thomas Clay's arthouse cine-literacy but suggests that he might not know what to do with all the movie references that he spreads liberally through his work.

Clay doesn't want for ideas but his symbolism is in grave danger of smothering the story