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It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

Aïnouz is at her best in the moment with Selma, whether it's when she's lost in erotic thought at the beach, during first go at sex or gazing at herself in the mirror.

The film works at a depth that would drown Hollywood.

Like Jan Svankmajer, the Quays blend live action and animation to create a surreal hermetic vision that is as beautifully seductive as it is chillingly inaccessible. T

The juxtaposition between comedy and meditation on contemporary life does throw the viewer off-guard a little bit, but it is no the less effective for doing so.

Gwyneth Paltrow gives a brave, uncompromised performance that does not shrink from the self-possessed obsessions of a selfish mind.

The landscape plays a major role in this movie, with its bleak, open spaces, adding to the feeling that the characters and their emotions are curiously incidental.

The cast give a good ensemble performance and the plot is engaging above the cliched love stories which we are fairly sure will result in a happy ending.